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Jerry Nadler: “The President put his own interest in front of the interest of the country, that he sought to use the power of the…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2019
The President put his own interest in front of the interest of the country, that he sought to use the power of the presidency to withhold military aid from an ally and to extort that ally into making an announcement of a bogus investigation of a political opponent for his own personal benefit.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler outlines the charges against Trump in the impeachment articles.

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