Democrats united against Trump, "the most corrupt president in history"
The US president is threatened with impeachment for asking the Ukrainian president to help him gather compromising information on Joe Biden.
Democrats in Congress are moving forward in the impeachment process for President Donald Trump. They issued a solemn injunction to the White House on Friday. They ask her to provide documents useful for their investigations.
The US President is threatened with impeachment for asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a July 25 phone call, to help him gather compromising information about well-placed Joe Biden to face him in 2020. Democrats also suspect him of having weighed in military aid to Ukraine, suspended by the White House this summer.
“The White House has refused to cooperate with, or even respond to, multiple requests from our committees for the voluntary surrender of documents. After nearly a month of obstruction, it seems clear that the president has chosen the path of challenge, obstruction and cover-up operations, "according to a statement from the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives. The presidency has until October 18 to comply.
Democrats have also requested documents from Vice President Mike Pence, without a formal injunction.
Embarrassing SMS
According to CNN citing an aide to the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who listened to the Trump / Zelensky appeal in July, failed to deliver the documents requested in the deadline. an injunction sent on September 27.
On Friday night, the New York Times reported on the existence of a potential second whistleblower who had more direct information than the first, which reported on August 12 the Trump / Zelensky appeal to the Inspector General. of Intelligence Michael Atkinson.
And Republican Senator Ron Johnson told the Wall Street Journal he knew Donald Trump's emissaries offered a deal to Volodymyr Zelensky's government, linking military aid to Ukraine to an anti-corruption probe into Joe Biden.
Under pressure, the tenant of the White House explained at length, assuring that his approach vis-à-vis his Ukrainian counterpart had no electoral aim and was intended only to fight against corruption in this country. Because the impeachment procedure launched by the Democrats has brought new revelations.
Text messages exchanged by American diplomats, very embarrassing for Trump and made public Thursday by Congress, show that the American administration has indeed put pressure on the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden in the run-up to the presidential election of 2020.
Block the Senate
"I don't care about Biden's campaign, but not corruption," Trump said on Friday, repeating unsubstantiated accusations against the son of the Democratic candidate who had served from 2014 on the board of directors of a gas company Ukrainian. "I don't think Biden is going to win, he tackled. Biden is not a very smart guy [...] He was pulled out of a garbage heap by [Barack] Obama."
Joe Biden retaliated by calling him "the most corrupt president we have had in modern history", deeming him "out of whack" and believing that he "condemned himself by his own statements" after his call. the day before so that Beijing and Kiev could investigate him.
Trump admitted that the impeachment process would likely end up in the House of Representatives: "Democrats, unfortunately, they have the votes, they can vote ('impeachment') very easily." Recalling that he was extremely popular within his party, he called on Republicans to unite in the Senate where they are in the majority. This is where a possible "trial" will take place.
"I think the Senate thinks it is a shame and that they believe that the Republican Party has been very badly treated," he warned as a warning to those among the elected officials of his party , might be tempted to distance themselves.
For the moment, most of the Republican tenors refrain from criticizing, but they remain largely silent and also refrain from rushing to his aid. Mitt Romney, a former 2012 presidential candidate and Utah senator, said Friday "appalling" that the president called on foreign powers to investigate his potential opponent.
