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December 18, 2019While night is in Italy, in the United States of America the plenary session in the Chamber is underway for the debate that precedes the vote for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, accused of abuse of power and obstruction of the Congress for the 'Ucrainagate. Voting is expected during the Italian night. The dems have a majority to approve impeachment, the third in US history, in the House, but not in the next passage in the Senate. Clash between the president and speaker of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, who asked: "Let's stop Trump or risk a monarch president". The Tycoon: "Will go down in history as the worst speaker".

"The President has given us no choice but to proceed with impeachment, today we are here to defend democracy for the American people," Pelosi said, in the speech that opened the debate.

According to the Democrats, Trump would have frozen military funds destined for Ukraine, in exchange for the promise by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens'kyj to open an investigation into Joe Biden, Trump's political opponent. "The vision of our founding fathers of the republic is threatened by the actions of the White House", declared Pelosi, adding that "if we do not act now, we will betray our duty. It is tragic that the unconscious actions of the Presidents make the impeachment so necessary ".

The Chamber in the morning adopted the rules for the afternoon debate, which will lead to the vote around 7.30 pm local time (1.30 on the Italian night). The vote will probably come in conjunction with President Trump's pre-Christmas election rally in Battle Creek, Michigan. Trump on Twitter defended himself, attacking the Dems and posting 46 personal tweets and retweets in a matter of hours: "It's an assault on America, an assault on the Republican party! I didn't do anything, it's incredible that today the left "Radical votes for my impeachment, should no longer happen to any president," he wrote.

The morning vote was a test to test the compactness of the majority of Democrats in the Chamber, who approved the rules for the afternoon debate: 228 in favor (227 Dem and 1 Independent), 197 against (195 Republicans and 2 Democrats are opposed, from the first moments to the impeachment procedure against the President).

At the end of the debate on the procedures, moderated by the Colorado democrat, Diana DeGette, a veteran chosen by Pelosi, the Chamber then gave the go-ahead to the debate on the articles of impeachment. The expected duration is six hours, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans on the two impeachment articles. "This is a conjecture based on impeachment," said Doug Collins, a Georgia deputy at the Republican party summits in the Justice commission, through which the second phase of the proceedings passed. "Today has many meanings, which are not right and which do not concern the truth", concluded Collins. He was echoed by Tom Cole, another leading Republican representative in the House in Oklahoma, among the country's most conservative states: "If we want to be really honest, the Democrats have been looking for a reason to proceed with the impeachment against Donald Trump since the day he was elected ", Cole said, accusing the Democrats of being" biased "and defining the evidence brought to the House against Trump with a metaphor:" They are well-selected cherries ".

As the debate continues, even the Democrats prove compact against Trump. "If a President who endangers our national security by using the federal government to his advantage in a personal and selfish way is not worthy of impeachment, I really don't know what it can be," said House Committee chairman Jim McGovern , Democrat of Massachusetts.