The White House refuses any cooperation with the US House of Representatives in the investigation into President Donald Trump in the Ukraine affair. This was what the White House wrote in an eight-page letter to the Congress Chamber published on Tuesday night in Washington.
The preliminary determinations of the Democrats for a possible impeachment trial against Trump are politically motivated alone, lacked any constitutional basis and would have the sole aim of overturning the outcome of the presidential election in 2016, said the government headquarters in an opinion. For these reasons, the government can not and will not participate in this partisan "political theater".
The White House announced a general blockade attitude against all sorts of demands for documents and testimonies from the congress.
Previously, the Trump government had blocked the statement of a top diplomat in the Ukraine affair. US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, was summoned to Congress for a hearing on Tuesday, but did not appear. Trump defended the decision on Twitter: he would like to send Sondland, but this would testify before a "completely corrupt court", which would have taken away the rights of the Republicans and where true facts are not accessible to the public. The Democrats reacted with sharp criticism. They now want to force a statement from southern Italy with a threat of punishment
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