WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators, including chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, met top White House officials to devise a strategy to deal with a possible parliamentary trial of President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
White House spokesman Hogan Giddely said yesterday that Trump wants the impeachment to go forward in the Senate because he will be treated fairly and that he expects former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to be among the witnesses.
The Washington Post quoted officials familiar with the fact that the White House did not reach final decisions on the strategy to deal with Trump's possible parliamentary trial, but their most prominent scenario is a two-week trial that ends with his acquittal.
Press sources quoted Lindsey Graham as saying that most of those attending the meeting agreed not to hold any vote on Trump's acquittal in the Senate before hearing the allegation, represented by a number of members of the House of Representatives called "directors."
On the other hand, Graham wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding documents relating to contacts between Joe Biden and his son and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Graham said the materials needed would help find answers to allegations about Biden's dismissal of the Ukrainian prosecutor to end the investigation into Borisma, for which his son was working.
| Adam Schiff (center): Nothing is more dangerous than an immoral president who believes he is above the law (Reuters) |
More dangerous than Nixon
On the other hand, Adam Schiff, the Democratic Rep. And the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry to isolate Trump, yesterday that the facts attributed to the US president "much more serious" than did former President Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 to avoid certain measures to isolate him in the background of the scandal known as " Watergate. "
"What we have here is much more dangerous," Schiff said, concluding marathon hearings in Congress. "We are talking about freezing military assistance to an ally at war," referring to Ukraine.
"This goes far beyond what Nixon has done," he stressed. "Nothing is more dangerous than an immoral president who believes he is above the law."
It is noteworthy that the Democrats seek through the investigation to prove that Trump sought to link military assistance to Ukraine worth $ 400 million and a visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky to the White House by obtaining a pledge from Ukraine to open an investigation against Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and the investigation centered mainly on a phone call It took place between Trump and Zielinski, who is believed to have been involved.