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On Politics | IMPEACHMENT. 2020 ELECTION. WASHINGTON. AND MORE FROM THE POLITICS WORLD. | Wednesday, November 27 | | |
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| Happy Thanksgiving Eve, OnPolitics readers! Now that the holiday is upon us, the news about the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has slowed down. But the world of politics remains busy, even if everyone else is busy making food or traveling to visit family and friends. Let's get started. |
Trump's team will consider participating in impeachment hearing |
| White House officials said Wednesday they will consider an offer from the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to participate in an impeachment hearing next week, even as they denounced the process as a "sham." |
| White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said attorneys are reviewing the offer from Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., but added that "what is obvious to every American is that this letter comes at the end of an illegitimate sham partisan process. The President has done nothing wrong and the Democrats know it." |
| Nadler announced earlier this week that the Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Dec. 4. |
Trump signs bill aimed at supporting Hong Kong protesters amid trade talks |
| Trump signed bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at supporting protesters in Hong Kong, ignoring warnings from Beijing that the measure would be met with "strong countermeasures" during a standoff over trade. |
| The bill would require officials to annually re-consider special treatment Hong Kong receives from the U.S., including trade rules that have helped elevate the city to a global financial power. |
| Lawmakers in both parties have sought to signal support for the protesters, who for months have taken to the streets to demonstrate against what they view as China's encroachment on the city's autonomy. |
Mexico requests Pompeo meeting after Trump floats drug cartel plan |
| Mexico's Foreign Ministry is requesting a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after Trump told former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly Tuesday he planned to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. |
| But some experts dismissed Trump's comments as a symbolic gesture to "talk tough" on cartels and said his words could fray already strained relations between the two countries. |
| "Mexico will never allow any actions that violate its national sovereignty. We will be firm. I have let the United States know my position, as well as our plan against organized transnational crime," Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted in a statement Tuesday night. "Mutual respect is the basis of cooperation." |
| Trump's intention is drawing support from some of the relatives of the families killed in an ambush early this month. The victims, members of Mormon offshoot communities with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship, were gunned down in an attack in Sonora, Mexico. The apparent ambush has widely been blamed on cartel violence. |
Welcome to the Lightning Round |
| We want to make this quick, so here are some additional politics stories we think you'll like, roll your eyes at or maybe both. |
| • | Richard Spencer, the former Navy secretary who was forced out over his handling of convicted Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher's case is speaking out about Trump's "shocking and unprecedented" involvement and being pressured to leave. | | • | Here is a timeline in how Trump intervened in Gallagher's war crimes case. | | • | Trump's administration will pay less to NATO under an agreement reached days before the president is set to travel to London to celebrate the alliance's 70th anniversary. | | • | William Doyle Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, has died at the age of 87. | | • | Trump claimed at a rally Tuesday night that, "People have different ideas why (Thanksgiving) shouldn't be called Thanksgiving." He then defiantly declared that, "We're not changing it." Trump's claim confounded many. Even the hosts of the Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends," who are generally credulous when it comes to the president, appeared skeptical Wednesday morning. | |
Ending with some good news |
| Former President Jimmy Carter, 95, was released from a Georgia hospital Wednesday after undergoing surgery earlier this month to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding related to recent falls. |
| "He and Mrs. Carter look forward to enjoying Thanksgiving at home" in Plains, Georgia, "where he will continue to recover," read a statement from the Carter Center. "The Carters are grateful for all the prayers, cards, and noted they have received and hope everyone will join them in enjoying a special Thanksgiving." |
| We'll be off on Thanksgiving Day enjoying family, friends, food and maybe some football. So, until Friday, OP readers. |
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