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The Intelligence from The Economist

Articles of faith: charges laid against Trump

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

House Democrats have issued their narrowly focused articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. We look back on the history of impeachments and ask whether the process is working as first intended. Killings of French women by their partners account for a tenth of the country’s murders; at last, the problem is being addressed. And what climate change is doing to the wine industry.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

0:09.6

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:17.8

France has one of the world's highest rates of men who kill their female partners, about

0:22.3

10% of the country's total murders. It's a problem that hasn't drawn much attention

0:27.4

until recently, when purple-wearing protesters took to the streets.

0:33.0

And there are a few industries that won't be disrupted by climate change, especially

0:37.2

agriculture. For winemakers, that means a slow shift farther and farther from the equator.

0:43.4

But more will change than just the world's winemap.

0:46.8

First up, though. After a brisk 77 days of investigations and hearings,

1:04.4

Democrat leaders yesterday announced draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

1:09.6

The President's misconduct is as simple and as terrible as this.

1:15.2

President Trump solicited a foreign nation, Ukraine, to publicly announce investigations

1:21.9

into his opponent, and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by Russia to help his re-election

1:28.5

campaign.

1:29.5

The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said the President had

1:32.8

imperiled the integrity of the 2020 election. Then Gerald Nadler, the Chairman of the House

1:38.2

Judiciary Committee, laid out the charges.

1:40.7

The first article is for abuse of power. It is an impeachable offense for the President

1:47.5

to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit.

1:54.6

The second article was for obstruction of Congress, focused on the President's blocking

1:58.9

of witnesses and documents that the committee's requested.

2:01.9

Number two, we see a familiar pattern in President Trump's misconduct. A President who

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