Ex-GOP Senator Would Vote to Impeach Trump

“In March of 1974, then-Washington Attorney General Slade Gorton (R) broke with fellow Republicans with a public call for President Richard Nixon’s resignation amid revelations of abuse of power related to the Watergate scandal,” the Seattle Times reports.

“More than four decades later, with Congress poised to take a key vote Thursday to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Gorton is once again at odds with most in his party, who have dismissed the Ukraine investigation as a partisan witch hunt.”

Said Gorton, who later became a U.S. Senator: “I reached the conclusion that there are a dozen actions on this president’s part that warrant a vote of impeachment in the House.”