IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday [10-9-19] called for President Trump’s impeachment for the first time, blistering Mr. Trump as a threat to American democracy and accusing him of ‘shooting holes in the Constitution.’ Escalating his language in an effort to rebut Mr. Trump’s unfounded claims about his actions with Ukraine, Mr. Biden set aside months of restraint to demand Congress move against the president. ‘To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,’ the former vice president told supporters here, accusing Mr. Trump of having ‘betrayed this nation.’ Mr. Biden even linked Mr. Trump’s false claims to the so-called Big Lie idea promulgated by the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels…While Mr. Biden stopped short of calling for Mr. Trump’s removal from office, his new aggressiveness marked an acknowledgment that he must do more to both confront a president who is attacking him daily and to halt his slide in the polls in the Democratic primary.”
–Jonathan Martin, “Biden Calls for Trump Impeachment for First Time,” The New York Times online, October 9, 2019