'It's a disgraceful thing': Trump brushes off the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskiy, says it was 'a nothing call.' More:
In raising the Biden issue, Trump told Zelenskiy that “I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair.” Trump said he would have Giuliani - a political ally with no formal role in the U.S. government - and Barr call him.
“I also want to ensure you that we will be very serious about the case and will work on the investigation,” Zelenskiy added. “The president has tried to make lawlessness a virtue in America and now is exporting it abroad,” Pelosi said. Under the U.S. Constitution, the House has the power to impeach a president for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” No president has ever been removed from office through impeachment. Democrats currently control the House and Trump’s fellow Republicans control the Senate.
The United States, European countries and others had pushed for the ouster of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the energy company because he was not pursuing it aggressively enough. The prosecutor who replaced him, Yuriy Lutsenko, told Reuters on Friday that no wrongdoing was found on the part of Biden’s son in his relationship with the energy firm.
Pelosi would not commit to an impeachment timetable but Judiciary Committee Democrat David Cicilline said articles of impeachment could move to the House floor in a matter of weeks, if the allegations against Trump prove true.
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