Democrats in the US House of Representatives meet behind closed doors to prepare impeachment charges against President Trump
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks to the members of the media as she makes her way to the House chamber to vote on a resolution denouncing comments by President Trump targeting four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color on July 16, 2019 in Washington, DC.
The lawmakers released a 55-page report on Saturday morning outlining what they see as the constitutional grounds on which articles of impeachment could be built. On Friday, the White House told Nadler it would not take part in the panel's hearings and condemned the inquiry as "completely baseless." Nadler, in turn, expressed his disappointment: "The American people deserve answers from President Trump."
While Trump has refused to cooperate with the House probe, he has made clear his lawyers will mount a defence in a Senate trial, where he believes he will prevail.The Judiciary Committee is focused on two possible articles of impeachment that would accuse the president of abuse of power in his dealings with Ukraine and obstruction of Congress for refusing to cooperate with investigating committees.
The probe has focused on a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election. "A president who perverts his role as chief diplomat to serve private rather than public ends has unquestionably engaged in 'high crimes and misdemeanours' - especially if he invited, rather than opposed, foreign interference in our politics," the Judiciary Committee Democrats said in their report on Saturday.
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