US House Intelligence Committee report details 'overwhelming evidence' against President Donald Trump's misconduct in office and obstruction of Congress
Left to Right: US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Behind closed doors late on Tuesday, the Democratic-led panel voted 13 to 9, along strict party lines as expected, to officially adopt and issue the report to the House Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with drafting articles of impeachment against the president. "President Trump and his senior officials may see nothing wrong with using the power of the office of the president to pressure a foreign country to help the president's reelection campaign," it said.
In both cases, the report said, Trump conditioned nearly $400 million in US military aid and a high-profile summit with Zelensky on Kiev opening the investigations. "Donald Trump is the first president in the history of the United States to seek to completely obstruct an impeachment inquiry undertaken by the House of Representatives," it said.
The report "reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing."The report is expected to form the basis for the Judiciary Committee to draw up formal charges, or articles of impeachment, in the coming weeks.
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