NEW: GOP congressman Francis Rooney 'thinking' about voting for impeachment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave an atta-boy to Republican Rep. Francis Rooney last year on the congressman's home turf in swing state Florida.The second-term Republican said publicly Friday what others in his party are not, namely that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged a quid pro quo was at work when Trump held up U.S. aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv's investigation of Democrats and the 2016 elections.
Anything short of a"no" on that question, even from only one of 197 Republicans in the House, is notable amid the drive by majority Democrats to impeach Trump. The president has made clear that he does more than notice what he considers acts of disloyalty; he is fond of making examples of Republicans by threatening to sink their re-election bids and following through in a few cases.
But that was before revelations about Trump's pressure on Ukraine, which made his impeachment by the end of the year a real possibility. Since the release of a rough transcript of Trump's call with Ukraine's president, many current and former administration officials have testified before House impeachment investigators.
Rooney said he had not received any blowback from the White House for his comments, though about half of the calls he's getting are from constituents who are critical, including"some pretty hostile" ones from ardent Trump supporters.
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