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House Democrats Lay Out Lengthy Case for Impeachment

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives laid out
   their strongest case for impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump in a
   highly anticipated report on Tuesday.

   [1]The 300-page report accused Trump of "misconduct" in seeking
   Ukrainian political interference in the 2020 presidential election and
   then relentlessly trying to "obstruct" Congress as it carried out an
   inquiry into his dealings.

     THE TRUMP-UKRAINE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY REPORT
     Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
     Pursuant to H. Res. 660 in Consultation with the House Committee on
     Oversight and Reform and the House Committee on Foreign
     Affairs[2]https://t.co/EVLYVpuLKA
     -- House Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) [3]December 3, 2019

   The nearly three-month impeachment inquiry "has found that President
   Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the
   U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government,
   Ukraine, to benefit his reelection," the report stated.

   "In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political
   interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to
   undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and
   endangered U.S. national security," the report declared.

   The report was prepared by Democrats on the House Intelligence
   Committee. On Tuesday the committee voted 13-9, along party lines, to
   adopt the report and send it to the House Judiciary Committee where
   there will be a partisan debate on whether to draft articles of
   impeachment against Trump.

   The report accused the president of carrying out an "unprecedented
   obstruction" of the impeachment inquiry by "instructing witnesses and
   agencies to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony" demanded by
   congressional investigative committees.

References

   1. https://intelligence.house.gov/report/
   2. https://t.co/EVLYVpuLKA
   3. https://twitter.com/HouseIntel/status/1201942520135065606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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