What had begun as a simple phone call regarding military aid to Ukraine has now expounded itself into a possible impeachment of President Trump. This week Nancy Pelosi has initiated an impeachment inquiry process against Trump due to his phone calls with Ukrainian President Zelensky. A whistleblower complaint has been lodged against the President regarding misconduct over his phone call, claiming that Trump continually asked for favors from Zelensky to retroactively investigate Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his sons involvement in the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma. According to a reconstructed transcript of the call, Trump is trying to have Zelensky investigate Biden in attempts to discredit one of his political opponents in the upcoming election and in exchange for this favor Trump would grant Ukraine military aid against Russian aggression. Democrats have deemed Trump’s phone call to “undermine our national security…an abuse of power… and unpatriotic” as well as “undermines the integrity of our elections, the dignity of the office he holds…and has tried to make lawlessness a virtue in America and now is exporting it abroad”. House Intelligence Committees have also stated that, “the President abused his office by directly and repeatedly asking a foreign country to investigate his political rival”. The President vehemently denies any wrongdoing in his phone call.
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