The impeachment procedure of Donald Trump advances to slain flanges. The speaker (Speaker) of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (California), announced, Thursday, December 5, that she had asked the Committee on Legal Affairs of this assembly to draft the articles on which elected officials will have to pronounce, without doubt before the end of the year.
In the likely case of a positive vote, Democrats being the majority in the House, Donald Trump would become the third president in US history indicted. The Senate would be required to organize its trial, probably in January.
This impeachment began a telephone conversation between the President of the United States and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, on July 25. In the course of this conversation, Donald Trump has called for investigations against his political opponents, including former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, who may challenge him in the 2020 presidential election. According to witnesses interviewed in October and in November by the House Intelligence Committee, in charge of the investigation, military aid apparently blocked by Donald Trump without any official reason being given and an invitation to the White House were subordinated to these investigations. .
"The president gives us no choice but to act because he tries to corrupt, once again, the elections for his benefit"Nancy Pelosi said in an allusion to Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. "The facts are undisputed", she added, he "Abused his power for his personal political gain at the expense of our national security, by refusing military aid and the crucial meeting in the Oval Office in exchange for the announcement of an investigation into his political rival".
Solidity of the republican bloc
"If you must charge me, do it now, quickly, so that we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our country can return to work", immediately reacted Donald Trump on Twitter. "The good news is that Republicans have never been so united. We will win "added the president, who knows how to count in the state on the majority available to his party in the high assembly.
While Nancy Pelosi justified her approach by the respect of the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, Donald Trump posed as a defender of the American fundamental law by warning against the risk that an exceptional measure should be the future "Used regularly to attack future presidents".
