Trump Is Pushing Democrats to the Brink. Look at Elijah Cummings.


Even after President Trump sued him last month to keep his business records secret, Representative Elijah E. Cummings kept his cool and urged Congress to move slowly on impeachment. But as Mr. Trump ratchets up his campaign to block Democrats’ access to documents and witnesses, the ordinarily careful Democrat is, like the rest of his caucus, growing impatient.
“It sounds like he’s asking us to impeach him,” Mr. Cummings, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and a top lieutenant to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said in an interview last week. Ticking off all the ways Mr. Trump is stonewalling Congress, he added, “He puts us in a position where we at least have to look at it.”
Mr. Cummings’s remarks — echoed by Ms. Pelosi on Tuesday after the White House stepped in to stop the former White House counsel Donald F. McGann II from handing over documents to House investigators — represent a significant shift for top Democrats, who have been trying to maneuver carefully around the impeachment issue after the special counsel’s report. Increasingly, though, their strategy of holding impeachment-like hearings without declaring a formal impeachment process is looking like a dead end.


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