U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce that the House is launching a formal inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Earlier Pelosi declined to say what action she planned, but told the audience, “It’s absolutely, absolutely essential that the president is held accountable. No one is above the law.”
Trump on Tuesday confirmed he had withheld nearly US$400 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine but denied he did so as leverage to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to initiate an investigation that would damage Joe Biden, the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Trump on Sunday acknowledged that he had discussed Biden and Biden’s son Hunter, who had worked for a company drilling for gas in Ukraine, with Zelenskiy. But Trump on Monday denied trying to coerce Zelenskiy in the phone call to launch a corruption investigation into Biden and his son in return for the U.S. military aid.
Sources: Reuters, The Washington Post, teleSUR.
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