Impeachment, the official Trump investigation begins. Wrath of the president: "Witch hunt"

Donald Trump now he really trembles, because the procedure impeachment has now become official. To formalize it in black and white was the American Congress Chamber, approving a resolution with the rules to follow in the investigation. A vote in the classroom which in fact is the general proof of what could happen in a few weeks, when the president must be asked to be charged. The democrats, who voted for the text en masse (only two deputies marched off), therefore go straight on their way, more and more convinced of having public opinion on their side and trusting in the validity of the evidence gathered so far in the first phase investigation.

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"The president betrayed what he swore on, and our duty is to defend the Constitution"said the speaker Nancy Pelosi, the state's third position, pointing the finger at those pressures on Ukraine exercised by the tycoon to hit its political opponents. "We are facing the biggest witch hunt in American history!", Trump defends himself on Twitter, while the White House spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, speaks of "a disgrace concocted to destroy the president".

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A resolution "unjust, unconstitutional and anti-American that affects the entire nation", he adds. A vote by the House, which for the third time is formally starting an impeachment procedure, after the case of Richard Nixon for Watergate in 1974 and that of Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky case in 1998. Now everything is ready to go to phase two of the investigation concerning Trump and what has been dubbed the Ukrainian. It will be the most public phase, after 70 hours of closed-door hearings involving a dozen illustrious witnesses, many of whom challenged the diktat of the White House that had ordered the men of its administration not to appear before the investigating commissions.

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The resolution – with a vote that split the Chamber between the Democratic majority and the Republicans in two – authorizes the intelligence commission to fix the public hearings and eventually produce a report on which the justice commission will have to decide, deciding if there are details for set up articles for impeachment and to send Trump to trial in the Senate chamber. The approved text also establishes the rights the president can exercise to defend himself, with his lawyers who will be able to participate in the hearings and even request warrants to listen to other witnesses or to gather other documentation deemed useful for the defense.

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Meanwhile, the coming and going of witnesses in the bunker classroom in the basements of Capitol Hill it also continued in the last few hours, with Trump's adviser on Russia Timothy Morrison who, again behind closed doors, would confirm the version of many of the people heard in recent weeks. Version according to which Trump, despite the opposition of many of his collaborators, would have put pressure on Kiev, in particular by linking the delivery of aid to Ukraine with the start of investigations into the son of Joe Biden and the Democrats for the 2016 elections.

The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2019

But the most awaited testimony now is that of former national security adviser John Bolton, who left the White House in controversy with the president's positions and in friction with other councilors. And now – they fear in the tycoon's entourage – he may want to take off more than one pebble from his shoes. Last updated at 20:27


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