Four candidates came out swinging at Trump during the fourth Democratic party debate: Sanders, Biden, Harris and Klobuchar.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden called Donald Trump the “most corrupt president in the history of this country” while Senator Warren lamented that the president kept breaking his own laws.
“The impeachment must go forward,” thundered Warren, the progressive senator who is neck and neck with former vice president Biden at the head of the 2020 nomination race -- a stance loudly echoed by her fellow Democrats on stage.
Washington’s impeachment brawl has dominated US politics for weeks, centered on Trump’s effort to press Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden.
Dragged into the scandal, Biden made clear he believes Trump should be impeached -- and pushed back hard on the president’s charge he himself intervened in Ukraine to protect his son Hunter. “My son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong,” Biden said, when asked about his son’s employment with a Ukrainian company, which even some Democrats say held the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Warren stood out in calling for the United States to “get out of the Middle East” -- while most of her rivals focused on assailing Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria, which critics say amounted to a green light for a Turkish assault on America’s Kurdish allies there.
“This is shameful, shameful what this man has done,” Biden said of Trump’s Syria pullout, while Senator Kamala Harris said she would “stop this madness” if elected.
