The impeachment investigation against Donald Trump has collected "overwhelming evidence" of the Republican president's "inappropriate conduct", according to the report of the parliamentary commission that oversaw the investigations.
"President has placed his personal and political interests above national interests"
"The impeachment investigation has shown that President Trump, personally and through agents inside and outside the government, has sought the interference of a foreign country, Ukraine, in favor of his re-election campaign. ", according to this report of the House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee, with a Democratic majority. "The president has placed his personal and political interests above national interests, sought to undermine the integrity of the US electoral process and endangered national security," say the authors of the 300-page report, which is to serve the drafting of the charges against the President.
The White House refutes
"The founding fathers have prescribed a remedy when a head of the executive places his personal interests above those of the country: the impeachment," they add. The White House immediately refuted this analysis. "The sham" of the impeachment investigation has produced "no evidence" against Donald Trump, said executive spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham. "This report reflects nothing but the frustrations" of the Democrats, he "reads like the ramblings of a low-level blogger who strives to prove something when there is clearly nothing," she added.
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The New York billionaire is in turmoil because he asked during a summer call to his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the democrat Joe Biden, one of his potential opponents in the presidential election of 2020. For two months, the The House's Intelligence Committee conducted the investigation to determine whether it had abused its powers to force the hand in Kiev, including freezing a nearly $ 400 million aid to this country at war with Russia.
A legal debate before a formal indictment?
According to his report, there is "overwhelming evidence" on two topics: "the President conditioned an invitation to the White House and military aid to Ukraine to the announcement of investigations favorable to his campaign" and he has " hindered "the investigations. According to this document, "no president has so far flouted the Constitution and the supervisory power of the Congress". The report is to be adopted in the evening by the Intelligence Committee and then forwarded to the Judiciary Committee, which will start Wednesday the legal debate to determine whether the allegations against the President justify a formal indictment.