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Eric Zorn: Impeach Trump? More and more Democrats realize there's no harm in asking

Momentum is building. Since just Aug. 20, four Democratic U.S. representatives from Illinois have joined the seven other members of the 13-member state delegation who had already expressed support for the House opening a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

"I have watched with horror as President Trump has perpetrated an assault on American values," said a news release Wednesday from Rep. Bill Foster of Naperville in which he echoed the recently expressed sentiments of Reps. Lauren Underwood of Naperville (Aug.

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