DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House on Wednesday [7-17-19] killed an attempt to impeach President Trump for statements that the chamber condemned this week as racist, turning aside an accusation that he had brought ‘ridicule, disgrace and disrepute’ to his office. The move split Democrats, underscoring the divisions within the party over whether they should use their majority to charge Mr. Trump and try to remove him from office, with 95 signaling their support for at least considering the question further, and 137 moving to stop the current effort in its tracks. The president brushed off the vote as a victory, and hours later, at a rally in Greenville, N.C., he showed no signs of easing his attacks or toning down the vicious language that led to the impeachment attempt. He charged that the ‘dangerous, militant hard left’ among the Democrats were ‘hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down.’ By the end of the rally, Mr. Trump went even further, accusing them of seeking the ‘destruction of our country.’”
–Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Nicholas Fandos, “House Votes to Kill Trump Impeachment Resolution,” The New York Times online, July 17, 2019