Why is Trump facing impeachment?
Ukraine, an informant who remained anonymous, and Joe Biden enter: better to take a step back
Why does Trump risk impeachment - that is, impeachment, a very serious act in US politics? Given that, in all likelihood, the procedure for the dismissal of the president will have the green light of the Chamber (controlled by the Democrats), but will be rejected in January by the Senate (controlled by the Republicans), the affair involves Ukraine, an informant who remained anonymous and Joe Biden, former Vice President (of Barack Obama) and current candidate for the Democratic nomination for the race for the White House.
Trump is accused of exerting undue pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to have the Kiev judiciary reopen a corruption investigation against Joe Biden's son. On July 25, Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president called each other on the phone, and - as revealed by the transcript (albeit not literal) of the call - Trump asked Zelensky for "a favor": "There is a lot of talk about Biden's son, and Biden who blocked the investigation, and there are so many of us who want to know more, so anything you can do with the attorney general will be greatly appreciated. Biden used to go around bragging about blocking the investigation, so if you can take a look at it… it seems horrible to me, "Trump said.
The content of the "incriminated" phone call was revealed by an informer who has hitherto remained anonymous. The whistleblower also revealed an attempt to "cover up" that phone call: according to the report compiled on August 12 by the whistleblower, the White House lawyers arranged a series of measures to keep the transcript secret, for example using a different system than the one used. usually to store "unclassified" information.
The day after the phone call, the Washington administration instructed the Envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker and the US Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, to sound out Kiev officials to follow up on Trump's request. For months, the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had been gathering evidence on a corruption investigation into Burmisa, a gas company whose board of directors is Hunter Biden, the son of the former number two with Barack Obama. Giuliani's interlocutor was the Attorney General of Ukraine, Yuriy Letsenko. The two, according to the informant, met at least twice in March, ie two months before Zelenski won the presidential election. At the end of August Zelenski replaced Letsenko with a trusted collaborator and Giuliani's plot, Trump's pressure did not follow up.
Another fundamental step. In mid-July, the "whistleblower" learned that Trump had ordered to suspend the sending of military aid to Ukraine. The president offered no explanation. The suspicion is that Trump wanted to use the blockade of supplies to have more persuasive power over the Ukrainian leadership. In short: Trump allegedly used as leverage for his personal interest (to demolish his political opponent) the blockade of military aid for 400 million dollars, already promised to the Ukrainians (and then granted at the end of August 2019).
On this basis, the Speaker of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, initiated the "impeachment" procedure, the indictment of the president, on two counts: "abuse of power" and "obstruction of the investigation conducted by Congress" .
