Nancy Pelosi is expected to announce a formal Trump impeachment inquiry this afternoon. morning. Here's everything we know about Trump’s Ukraine whistle-blower scandal
Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Out of the geopolitical frying pan into the fire: Having recently emerged from one scandal of foreign influence in Eastern Europe, President Trump has become embroiled in another. The central allegation: in a July 25 phone call, Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son in exchange for unblocking U.S. aid to the country.
Rudy Giuliani’s role in pushing the Biden-Ukraine smear In recent months Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has made no secret of his efforts to pressure Ukraine to open an investigation into Biden ahead of the 2020 election. Giuliani eventually abandoned the Kiev visit, but in August he met with a top Ukrainian official and “strongly urged” him to “just investigate the darn things,” referring to Hunter Biden and Ukrainian efforts to undermine Trump in the 2016 election.
A day later, Trump suggested it’s totally proper to withhold aide from a country because it won’t investigate your political rivals. “It’s very important to talk about corruption,” Trump said.
Impeachment talk exploded on Monday night. Seven freshman Democrats who have served in the military and intelligence apparatus published a Washington Post op-ed, saying that if the allegations levied against the president are true, then “these actions represent an impeachable offense.” House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff wrote Maguire the next day, subpoenaing the complaint. Schiff accused him of breaking the law and demanded to know what the whistle-blower had claimed and whether anyone else in the executive branch had been involved in the decision to keep the complaint from Congress. On September 13, DNI general counsel Jason Klitenic responded to Schiff, saying that after consulting with the Justice Department, they had overruled the inspector general.
Some of Trump’s allies have seized on this alleged lack of “direct knowledge” to discredit the whistle-blower, but “a source close to the whistle-blower’s legal team” disputed the unnamed official’s characterization, saying the intelligence community’s inspector general would not accept “thirdhand disclosures.”
Mariotti makes it clear that impeachment is the only recourse designed to address a transgression of this scale, and “pursuing criminal cases that won’t stand legal scrutiny, or arguing that Trump has violated a criminal statute, risks undermining that goal.” [T]he Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act provides that if the [Intelligence Community Inspector General] determines that a complaint about a matter of “urgent concern” is credible, he sends it to the DNI, who within seven days “shall … forward” it to Congress together with any comments.
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