US President Donald Trump has said he has no objection to a parliamentary hearing aimed at isolating him, while Republicans demanded that the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden be summoned to testify in the House of Representatives in the so-called Ukraine Gate case.
Trump said on Saturday before leaving Washington for a sports event in Alabama that he did not care if his hearings in the House of Representatives were public, adding that such hearings should not be to appease anyone.
On Tuesday, he said he would probably submit to Congress another transcript of a telephone conversation between him and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky this week, noting that his investigators had requested it.
The current House inquiry is centered around a Trump call last July with Zelinsky, who may have asked him to do a "favor" to open an investigation with former US Vice President Joe Biden over his son Hunter's job with a company. Borissma "Ukrainian oil.
For Democrats who have begun the president's impeachment proceedings, what Trump has done is a grave abuse of power, but he has vehemently denied any wrongdoing by pressuring his Ukrainian counterpart to open an investigation into alleged graft against Joe Biden and his son.
Earlier, Trump accused both Hunter Biden and his father, Joe, the frontrunner to represent the Democratic Party in the upcoming US presidential election, of corruption because Hunter was a member of the board of the Ukrainian company when his father was former vice president Barack Obama, and Republicans say Hunter received money For his membership in the management of the company.
The Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, to hold public hearings starting next Wednesday, and the sessions so far were secret and devoted to hear many witnesses by the commissions of inquiry.
In their testimony before these committees, more than a dozen witnesses have so far confirmed the accusations made by Democrats, including Trump withholding military assistance from Ukraine, and linked it to the opening of Kiev investigation of the former vice president and his son.
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The Republican Party yesterday called on the House of Inquiry committees to summon Hunter Biden and the informant who was informed of the July telephone conversation between Trump and Zelensky as witnesses in the case.
But the chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, expressed opposition to summoning Hunter Biden and the informant, and said that the ongoing investigation should not be used for personal gain.
The president has repeatedly challenged Democrats over the trial, which seems confident it will not lead to his removal, citing Republican support for him.
A possible vote in the House of Representatives on Trump's removal refers to a trial for his removal before the Republican-dominated Senate, which means that the conviction and removal of the president would be too complicated under the current balance of power in Congress.