• Espionage: The US Department of Justice investigates Russian plot investigators

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution authorizing the investigation into the 'Ukrainian plot' scandal to launch the process that could theoretically (although in practice that is a remote opportunity) conclude with the president's dismissal .

The session has set how the investigation will be conducted, the length of the hearings, and the time that Trump's lawyers will have to ask the witnesses questions. Until now, the investigations had been carried out in closed sessions, as did the Republican Party in the investigation of the attack in Benghazi in 2012 that cost the life of the US ambassador to Libya . When making public and televised appearances, the process will have a very media component. Convincing public opinion, rather than discovering the truth, will be the main democratic and republican objective.

The vote increases the chances that the process, known as 'impeachment' (literally, 'challenge' or 'dismissal') will start in the House of Representatives in mid or late November. Everything indicates that the 'impeachment' would be approved in the House of Representatives, which amounts politically to an imputation in the legal field. The second step would be the political trial in the Senate , chaired by the president of the Supreme Court, where it seems impossible that 67 of the 100 members of that chamber vote in favor.

The support of the representatives has been divided according to partisan criteria. Only two Democrats have voted against the investigation. The independent Justin Amash, who until the summer was a Republican, has voted in favor. The vote is a triumph for the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who had successfully resisted pressure from the left wing of the Democratic Party to launch an 'impeachment' against Trump for 'Russian plot'.

Obviously, the 'Ukrainian plot' is different. In this scandal, the president of the United States has been accused of pressuring that of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, to investigate the activities in that country of the son of the Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden. To force Zelensky to investigate Biden, Trump went to the extreme of canceling US military aid to Ukraine, an allied country that is technically at war with Russia . The testimonies of Trump's collaborators before the Intelligence Committee to date have been tremendously harmful to the president. That is why the Democrats have voted today in favor of the investigation.

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