After a turbulent week in the affair of possible US President power abuse, Donald Trump has returned to attack mode. The Ukraine affair and the Democrats' push to impeach him are the "biggest scam in the history of American politics," Trump said in a video message posted on Twitter on local time. "It's all very simple: you're trying to stop me because I'm fighting for you, and I'll never let that happen."
Trump continued, "They want to take your weapons away, they want to take your health care away, they want to take your voice away, they want to take your freedom away," Trump stated. "We must never let that happen because our country is at stake as never before."
ME, because I'm fighting for YOU! pic.twitter.com/xiw4jtjkNl
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 28, 2019The Democrats in the House of Representatives are preparing a possible impeachment trial against Trump. The necessary investigations are taking shape: The chairmen of the Foreign Affairs Committee as well as the Intelligence and Control Committees invited a total of five diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - some already for the coming week. Among them is the former Special Envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker. This has resigned according to consistent media reports in the wake of the affair.
Trump is accused of using the power of his office to get another country to intervene in his favor in the 2020 US election. At the center of the allegations is a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj. Trump encouraged his counterpart to investigate, which could harm his political rival Joe Biden.
Trump's lawyer wants to testify before the congress
The three committees examined "the extent to which President Trump has endangered national security by urging Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 election," said Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo in a letter on Friday. He was asked to submit documents under threat of punishment until next Friday. He has already passed two deadlines, it was said.
The allegations of the US Democrats are based mainly on the complaint of an anonymous secret service employee, who makes allegations against Trump. As part of his work, the whistleblower wants to have received information from several government officials, according to which the US president "uses the power of his office" for another country to intervene in his favor in the 2020 US election. He also accused the White House of coverup. Trump rejects allegations against him and doubts the credibility of the whistleblower.
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From a conversation log of the controversial telephone conversation between Trump and Selenskyj, Trump told his colleague that he would hire his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and US Attorney General William Barr to report to him in the Causa Biden. Biden is in the running for the Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 election.
Trump accuses Biden of trying to sack a public prosecutor as vice president to protect his son Hunter Biden from the Ukrainian judiciary. Hunter Biden was working for a gas company in the country, which has since been investigated for allegedly crooked business. Biden rejects the allegations.
Trump's attorney Giuliani claims to be ready to testify before the congress in an interview published on Saturday by UK broadcaster Sky News. Restrictively, however, he added, "There are things I can not testify to because I am a lawyer." Giuliani does not see a misconduct by Trump.
Prospects of success of the procedure low
According to the "New York Times", the whistleblower in the Ukraine affair is supposed to be an employee of the foreign intelligence service CIA. He had stated that he had not been a direct witness to most of the issues he complained about, but had received consistent and credible information from various government officials.
According to US media reports, more than 220 Democrats in the Chamber are supporting the investigations. 218 votes would be enough in the Chamber to impose a so-called impeachment. However, the Senate, where Trump's Republicans have the majority, would decide on actual impeachment. The chances of success of such a method are therefore low. So far, no US President has been relieved by an impeachment procedure of the Office.
The US Democrats in the US are now making more popular support for impeachment of President Donald Trump. Public opinion has changed, Democratic President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said Saturday at a media event in Austin, Texas.
