“President Donald Trump used official powers to pressure the foreign government to intervene in US elections for its own personal political benefits. Then he tried to hide this plan by preventing Congress from investigating its violations, ”RIA Novosti quotes an excerpt from the document.
According to the Democrats, such a violation should entail impeachment and removal of the president.
“The Senate should use this decision to protect the US elections in 2020, protect our constitutional form of government and eliminate the threat that the president poses to US national security,” the rationale says.
Earlier, Trump's lawyers called the impeachment procedure a violation of the Constitution and an attempt to intervene in the upcoming presidential election.