• Ukrainegate.Donald Trump responds to the US ambassador to the EU: "Nothing! I don't want anything from Ukraine!"

We already know the reasons on which a potential vote of the US House of Representatives will be based on the impeachment of Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of the powers of the Legislature .

Those are the two central arguments of the draft report that the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee had planned to vote last night on the 'impeachment'. Although at the end of this edition the vote had not taken place, it was assumed that it would go ahead, with the vote in favor of the Democrats, and against the Republicans. The former have a majority in the Committee and in the Chamber, with which approval was taken for granted .

Once the report has been approved, it goes to the Justice Committee, which meets today to analyze it. In the coming weeks, that Committee will carry out its own investigation, before deciding whether or not to propose a proposal of 'impeachment' to the full House. If that were the case, the 'impeachment' would be voted at the end of December. If the 'impeachment' is approved, it becomes a 'political trial' that can theoretically conclude with the removal of the president, although it seems certain that this will not be the case. That is a function of the Senate, which would carry out the process in January and, perhaps, February.

For now, however, the important thing is the two accusations launched by the Intelligence Committee.

The most obvious is Trump's abuse of power by suspending the approved military aid to Ukraine as long as that country did not publicly announce an investigation - the least was that he carried it out or not - against the son of his top rival in the polls to the presidency in 2020, Democrat Joe Biden.

According to the draft report, that action "tried to undermine the integrity of the election process of the president of the United States, and endangered national security in the United States." The "machination" of the president was known, according to the document, by a series of senior government officials , including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry - who has resigned as a result of the scandal - and the President's chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.

The second is that Trump "ordered and carried out a campaign to hide his behavior from public opinion." That has included a ban on senior officials to appear before the House Intelligence Committee in the investigation.

For now, the US remains totally divided in relation to the 'impeachment'. 50% of citizens support it, and 43% reject it, according to a survey by the CNN television network. It is the same proportion that occurred before the Intelligence Committee held a series of sessions open to the public in which it interrogated key figures in the scandal. All the controversy seems to have reinforced Trump's base , and, in addition, the president and his allies have launched an offensive of television and internet ads against the most vulnerable Democratic congressmen to vote against the 'impeachment'.

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