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Donald Trumps First Impeachment Hearing Today, His Lawyer Says Trump Wont Participate

By Shanya Sharma      03 December, 2019 03:12 PM      0 Comments
Donald Trumps First Impeachment Hearing Today, His Lawyer Says Trump Wont Participate

Expressing doubts about getting a fair chance at the hearing, President Donald Trumps lawyer, Pat Cipollone told the House Judiciary Committee that Trump wont be participating in the panels first impeachment hearing against him to be held on Wednesday morning (December 4, 2019).

Impeachment proceedings were initiated against Donald Trump, the current President of the United States of America by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives (a democrat) on September 24, 2019 after allegations of abuse of power surfaced against him. Allegedly, Trump had withheld already approved military aid to Ukraine for the War in Donbass (eastern region of Ukraine), until Volodymyr Zelensky, the newly elected President of Ukraine made a public announcement to investigate Joe Bidens son for his involvement in the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. 

Joe Biden is Donald Trumps democratic rival reported to be contesting in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. Reportedly, Zelensky had planned to make the announcement of on-going investigation on September 13, 2019 as a favour to Trump. But before that could happen, Trump came to know about the whistle-blowers complaint against him and released the military aid to Ukraine on September 11, 2019 following which Zelenskys public announcement was also cancelled. 

Additionally, there are reports of the existence of a recorded phone call dated July 25, 2019 between Trump and Zelensky, which incriminates Trump. The record of the alleged phone call has been stored in the highly restricted section of the White House in Washington, which section is usually reserved for classified information, say reports.

Reportedly, witnesses from the White House like Fiona Hill, former official including Bill Taylor, a Ukrainian ambassador have corroborated the existence of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky asking for the alleged favour. Trumps lawyer had written to the speaker of the House, saying that he would not be cooperating with the investigation since the impeachment process was not voted by the full House and witnesses were being deposed behind closed doors. 

The Democrats have released a list of four witnesses who will be testifying against Trump on Wednesday while Trump will be away at London attending a NATO gathering. Pat Cipollone claimed that this move was made to create impediments in the fair hearing process knowing that Trump will be out of the country on the day of the hearing. 

Article II, Section of the Constitution of U.S.A. states that, the President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours.



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