on Tuesday night local time reached the case of Donald Trumps contact to Ukraine its previous peak.
the President of the House of Representatives, democrat Nancy Pelosi, declared that it would commence a rigsretsproces against the u.s. president.
this makes Nancy Pelosi it is clear that she will run a case against Trump, as ‘no one is above the law’. Video: AP
the Accusation is that Trump supposedly has been trying to push the president of ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskij, to find dirt on the former vice president Joe Biden. His son, Hunter, has had close relations with a number of Ukrainian businessmen.
Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Biden is struggling in the democratic primaries to become the main opponent for Trump in the presidential election in 2020.
Trump has called the case a ‘witch hunt’ and the Democratic rigsretsproces for ‘presidential harassment’.
Here you can read an overview of the main events.
25. July talking Donald Trump on the phone with the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskij. In september, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal describe that Trump the call has been trying to push Zelenskij to investigate Hunter biden’s business to a Ukrainian consortium for energy.
Hunter biden’s business in Ukraine took place at the same time, as Joe Biden as vice president was responsible for the negotiations with the former soviet republic on energy policy. There is not found any evidence of that either Biden or his son has done anything illegal.
Trump has acknowledged that he discussed biden’s son with Zelenskij, but denies having pressed him for something.
12. august files a whistleblower in the u.s. intelligence service, a complaint to the inspector general for the intelligence services. In the complaint, it appears, allegedly, that Trump has had calls with a ‘foreign head of state’, and that the call has aroused the concern.
the Complaint is assessed to be both credible and urgent, and sent to the UNITED states’s intelligence chief. The contents of the complaint have not yet been published, although democratic congressmen and legal experts, according to the american media the Politico believes that it is contrary to the law.
Adam Schiff, the chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence of the House of Representatives, rallies the administration, in order to receive the full complaint from the whistleblower.
It later comes forward in, among other newspapers The New York Times and The Washington Post, that Trump may have withheld militærbistand to Ukraine in an effort to squeeze Ukraine.
The 400 million dollar in aid given to Ukraine 11. september.
Trump has in several interviews, denied that the assistance was withheld in order to squeeze Ukraine. It was done because of concern for the general corruption in Ukraine.
After several days of massive writings and revelations in the media, writes the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to the acting secret service chief Joseph Maguire, that it would be ‘a severe breach of constitutional obligations’, if not to immediately issue whistleblowerens complaint in its full length.
at the same time, she stresses that the total amount of available knowledge can get Congress to consider a completely new stage in our investigation’.
on Tuesday evening Danish time announces topdemokraten that, in the light of the case will initiate a rigsretsproces against Donald Trump.
Sources: CNN, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, The New York Times, Reuters.
