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"Trump puts himself before the state": House of Commons published findings of Ukraine-Gate investigation | Israel today

2019-12-03T21:59:14.563Z


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Intelligence Committee released its findings on the affair, opening an impeachment lawsuit against the president The Committee is disturbed

  • On the way to a confrontation with Congress? Donald Trump // Photo: Island. times. Islands

The impeachment lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday reached a significant milestone when the House Intelligence Committee released the report with its findings from the investigation into the relationship between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zalansky.

The report compiled by Democratic committee members detailed how President Trump allegedly misused his office power and office in order to pressure Ukraine to launch investigations that might have been politically beneficial to him.

The bulk of the investigation centered on the claim that Trump provided military assistance to Ukraine in opening an investigation by the Kiev authorities against the family of Joe Biden, the leading candidate in the Democratic race for the 2020 presidential election. The document presents the case for ousting the president, with arguments and information based on 17 witnesses questioned in recent months.

The 300-page report says there is "a great deal of information" that indicates that Trump acted in violation of the U.S. Constitution by taking advantage of his powers as foreign policy president to rake in political capital, that is, in his attempt to mobilize Ukraine into the White House race.

Trump's impeachment process continues in the House of Representatives // Photo: Reuters

"The president acted in this way to better his chances of being re-elected, in an attempt to run against his political opponent, and to influence the upcoming presidential election," it said. "In this activity, the President put his personal interests above the US national interests, and acted to undermine the US election process and compromised the US national security." The report also attacked the president's lack of cooperation with Congress during the investigation On the face of it, this is a president's rendering activity, he argued.

Once the report is approved by the Intelligence Committee, the documents are expected to go to the Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to continue today with an investigation into and anchor the official "impeachment clauses" that may be bribes, abuse of power, defamation of Congress, and more. If and when the House of Representatives elects to approve the impeachment clauses, the clauses will become a sort of indictment and make Trump a special Senate trial chaired by the Supreme Court president, but to convict the president, Democrats will have to recruit two-thirds of the Senate to declare he guilty of impeachment clauses. For the time being, there seems to be no feasibility that the Senate is governed by Republicans and are loyal to the president.

Trump, for his part, continues to insist that he did nothing wrong, and even rejected an offer to condemn him instead of impeachment. "You are not condemning anyone who did nothing," stated the president who attended the NATO conference in London. He accused Democrats of "patriotism" and strongly attacked the intelligence committee chairman, Adam Schiff, calling him "maniac" and "disturbed" .

Source: israelhayom

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