Lawmakers could draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump by the end of October, The New York Times is reporting.
The newspaper reported Thursday that House Democrats are working feverishly to build a case against Trump centering on his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Some lawmakers say they could move on the case within a month or six weeks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the case against Trump would focus on the Ukraine matter. And the Times noted the House Intelligence Committee was lining up investigative targets. The panel's chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, said committee members will work through the two-week recess that begins on Friday.
A whistleblower's complaint to the intelligence community's inspector general about the call and the White House's subsequent handling of it sparked the impeachment inquiry. The complaint details the call in which Trump pushes the Ukrainian leader to investigate political rival Joe Biden.
Schiff said his priority was arranging interviews with the whistleblower and inspector general Michael Atkinson.
Schiff claimed Trump's actions detailed in the complaint read like "a classic organized crime shakedown."
But Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Democrats are not interested in pursuing what really happened.
"They don't want answers," he said. "They want a public spectacle."
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