The events are linked to the American Congress. Democrat parliamentarians on Friday (September 27th) urged the head of the American diplomacy Mike Pompeo to give them documents necessary for their investigation of Donald Trump, demonstrating their will to go quickly with the explosive procedure of impeachment committed against the republican president.
Stressing to act "swiftly and in concert", three House of Representatives committees sent a formal injunction to the Secretary of State. Failure to comply "would be an obstacle to the congressional investigation", they remind him in a letter.
In parallel, the elected Democrats at the head of these committees have already set dates to hear five senior diplomats, likely to provide them with information on the Ukrainian scandal in which Donald Trump is stuck. One of them, Kurt Volker, the United States special envoy for Ukraine, resigned Friday, told AFP an official on condition of anonymity.
"It is not necessary that it hangs out," said the head of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi who, after having tempered for months the ardor of the left wing of the party, created the surprise Tuesday by deciding to initiate a procedure dismissal of Donald Trump.
Trump has "betrayed his oath"
If the approach is unlikely to succeed because of a Republican majority in the Senate, it casts a shadow on his reelection campaign and augurs bitter struggles until the 2020 poll. Donald Trump "did not give us the choice" said the Democratic leader Friday to explain his change of position: he "betrayed his oath, jeopardized the national security and the integrity of the elections".
Democrats blame him for asking his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a telephone conversation two months ago to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, well placed to wear the colors of democracy in 2020 This exchange was "perfect", "perfectly legal", "it could not have been more honorable," Donald Trump hammered on Twitter.
His troubles are due to a member of the intelligence community who, in mid-August, had notified his hierarchy of his concerns over the content of the appeal with Kiev. Eight days ago, leaks in the media broke the story. Accused, the White House agreed to publish a transcript of the exchange in the hope of convincing it was "innocuous".
"Mafia"
Donald Trump complains that he is doing a lot for Ukraine without "necessarily being reciprocal" before making vague accusations against Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who worked for a Ukrainian gas group when his father was the number 2 of Barack Obama. "It would be great if you could look into it," he told Zelensky.
The Democrats found the exchange "damning" and compared Donald Trump to "a mafia boss." The scandal gained further momentum on Thursday with the publication of the whistleblower's report accusing White House lawyers of "intervening to lock all the archives" related to this call.
For him, this proves that the entourage of the president "understood the seriousness of what had happened". And embarrassing new allegations for Donald Trump, this time concerning Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, were released Friday by the Washington Post.
According to the newspaper, which quotes as source three former senior officials, Donald Trump said at a meeting in May 2017 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Russian Ambassador in Washington that he did not care about the interference of Moscow in the American election because the United States did the same thing in other countries.
With AFP