Prosecution of President Trump for “abuse of power” and “disturbance to parliament” Opposition party December 11th 5:25
The US opposition and democrats have announced that they will seek to prosecute Trump's impeachment over the allegations of Ukraine, based on the president's “abuse of power” and “disturbance to parliament”. The Democratic Party, which takes the lead in the House of Representatives, is going to vote at the plenary session next week after deliberations at the committee, and will indict the President Trump.
The opposition and Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives held a press conference on the morning of the 10th and announced that Trump ’s imprisonment prosecution pillars of Ukrainian allegations were “power abuse” and “impediment to parliament”.
Among them, “power abuse” is a chance for President Trump to use the president's authority to give back to Ukraine for military support, etc. It is based on pressure to profess the investigation concerning the Vice President.
As for “interference with parliament”, President Trump has instructed the executives to ignore the subpoenas of the legislative parliamentary house and reject the testimony without justification. is.
The Democratic Party, which takes the lead in the House of Parliament, will deliberate on a resolution for prosecution of impeachment that incorporates these two provisions at the Judiciary Committee, and will hold a plenary session next week to pass the resolution. .
As a result, President Trump is more likely to be prosecuted for impeachment this year.
President Trump "Witch Hunt"
On this, President Trump told Twitter: "I say I've put pressure on Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 presidential election, but it's ridiculous. I know that this is not the case. The foreign minister has repeatedly stated that there was no pressure, and the Democratic Party did not try to admit it, but it was a witch hunt. ”
The case of former President Clinton's prosecution
When President Clinton was charged with impeachment in 1998 with an affair with the White House trainees, the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives submitted an imprisonment prosecution with four main causes to the House of Representatives. Did.
The cause of the complaint was that the president made a false testimony regarding the affair with the trainee, “falsely witnessed to the grand jury”, “stopped the judicial decision” as a stakeholder, etc. “Failure in civil lawsuit” was cited as a false testimony in a trial on women's problems, and “power abuse” was cited as not responding appropriately to the investigation of the parliament.
In response to this, the House of Representatives voted for each cause of action, and approved both the false trials for the Grand Jury and the obstruction of justice, while the remaining two cases were not approved by the majority. did.
As a result, the House of Representatives passed a resolution of impeachment prosecution based on two causes, and imprisoned President Clinton.