on Wednesday afternoon Danish time is a hearing in the House of Representatives in time.
Here are the public the opportunity to follow, when two topdiplomater are being questioned about the phone call with his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelenskij, where president Donald Trump is accused to have engaged in abuse of power.
specifically accused the american president in order to have the pressure on Ukraine to find dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.
Wednesday is the USA’s topdiplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, and the official from the ministry of foreign affairs George Kent during the hearing in the matter of the Trumps alleged attempt to put pressure on the Ukrainian president. The case could end up in an impeachment against the president.
– If it is not behavior that can lead to a rigsret, what is so, ask the democrat Adam Schiff, who is the chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence of the House of Representatives
– It is true that the militærbistand was resumed, but only when Congress investigated the matter, says Schiff.
He opened Wednesday’s hearing by reading more of the charges against the Trump up.
Then it was Bill Taylor’s turn to give his testimony. He tells, among other things, that he was astonished over the course of the day after the call in the middle of July 2017.
Especially since the withholding of economic assistance to Ukraine was mentioned in a phone conversation 18. July of an employee from the department of administration and budget.
– At the end of an otherwise perfectly normal meeting, said a voice over the phone, that she was from the department of administration and budget, and that her boss had asked her not to approve any expenditure to the Ukraine so far, ” explains Taylor.
– As Congress, I believe that to withhold assistance, in exchange for help for a political campaign in the UNITED states would be brittle, signify topdiplomaten also.
Donald Trump has repeatedly called the case a ‘witch-hunt’. The president is backed up by several in the republican party.
It is a ‘smear campaign’ and a ‘televised theatre performance’, says republican Devin Nunes in the opening of the hearings on Wednesday.
Trump will not participate in the hearing, because he meet with the Turkish president Recep Erdogan.
Pressure and Mrs. Trump welcome Pressure and Mrs. Erdogan of Turkey on their arrival at the South Portico of the WH. (Pool photo by @karentravers) pic.twitter.com/w0Dskx4ACo
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 13, 2019
