Why did the process of impeachment against US President Donald Trump begin?

 26 Sep 2019 ( News Bureau )
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A person complaining against US President Donald Trump says senior White House officials were trying to suppress details of phone calls between Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine.

According to the recently released complaint, call details were not stored in ordinary computer systems. Instead it was stored in a separate system.

Shortly before now, the details of the complaint were made public on the basis of which the process of impeachment against US President Donald Trump started.

The complainant has alleged that he has received information from several sources that Trump is using his power to intervene in the 2020 presidential elections.

Meanwhile, Joseph Magure, acting director of the National Intelligence of America has appeared before the Congress Committee. The committee may ask them why they remained silent for several weeks over concerns issued by an intelligence official over phone conversations between Trump and the President of Ukraine?

Earlier, the US President's Office, the White House, released details of the phone conversation between Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky on the basis of which the impeachment process against Trump has begun.

In this conversation, Trump asked Zelensky to begin an investigation on July 25 against Democratic Party's potential presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son working in a Ukrainian gas firm.

Leader of the Democrat Party in the Senate, the upper house of the US Parliament, Chuck Schumer has said that the documents released have confirmed the impeachment action.

On the other hand, Republican MP from Oklahoma, Markwein Mullin, says that these documents do not prove anything. He said, "There is nothing in them. If the speaker has formed the basis of the entire process of impeachment, then she is swimming in stagnant water because she is not going anywhere."

At the same time, Peter Wener, who was an advisor during the three governments of the Republican Party, says that he was not surprised by the allegations on President Trump.

He said, "I think all this was fully anticipated because he is a person whose personality is disturbed and he does not have the genes of morality. He is a person who has no morality and he is in his power Will say and do anything to strengthen it. ''

At the same time, President Trump has dismissed all the allegations. In a tweet Trump wrote, "The Democrats are trying to ruin the Republican Party and all its values. Republican colleagues, stay united, understand their game and fight hard. Our country is at stake."

Trump's impeachment case is related to one of his rivals - Joe Biden - who could be a Democrat Party candidate in next year's presidential election, as well as Ukraine, a country associated with the case.

It is alleged that President Trump pressured the President of Ukraine to investigate claims of corruption against Joe Biden and his son.

Following this allegation, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Parliament Nancy Pelosi has announced the process of impeachment against President Trump.

However Trump has denied these allegations.

The root of the case is a phone call that took place between US President Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine on 25 July this year.

Last week, reports surfaced that US intelligence officials had complained to a government watchdog that Trump had talked to a foreign leader. It is later revealed that these foreign leaders are Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky.

The Intelligence Inspector General considered Whistle Blower's complaint to be "immediately noticeable" and credible. Democrat lawmakers demanded a copy of that complaint in Parliament, but the White House and the Justice Department refused it.

What was discussed between the two leaders is not clear. However, Democrats allege that Trump pressured the President of Ukraine to investigate corruption allegations against Joe Biden and his son. And failing to do so threatened to stop military aid to Ukraine.

However, Trump admitted that he had discussed with Ukraine's President Zelensky about his political rival, Joe Biden, but also said that he threatened to stop military help so that Europe would also come forward to help.

But President Trump has denied allegations that he pressured Ukraine's President, Vladimir Zelensky, to launch an investigation into corruption claims against Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son.

According to the US Constitution, the President faces impeachment in treason, bribery and other serious crimes.

The impeachment process in the US begins with the House of Representatives and requires a simple majority to pass.

There is a hearing in the Senate but a two-thirds majority is required to approve impeachment here.

No President has been removed by impeachment in US history so far.

There has been talk of impeachment before against Trump.

He was accused of impeachment following allegations of Trump's collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Apart from this, there was a demand for impeachment against President Donald Trump for allegedly making 'racist remarks' against four women MPs of Democratic Congress. However, it was rejected.

Trump was also charged during the 2016 presidential election with paying money to keep intimate relationships with two women secret.

Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer and partner, accepted the money to keep the intimate relationship secret.

For this too, there was talk of impeachment.

However, it is another matter that Trump could not be impeached in these cases and he remained in the post.

Impeachment clouded many times in the history of America, but only two presidents faced it.

The most recent case of impeachment in the history of America was the 42nd President of America, Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton faced impeachment in a case of perjury and obstructing justice before an extensive jury.

He lied in a love affair with Monica Lewinsky. Along with this, he was also accused that Bill Clinton also told Monica Lewinsky to lie in this case.

Andrew Johnson is the only president to face impeachment other than Bill Clinton. Johnson was the 17th President of the United States. He was the President of the United States from 1865 to 1869.

The House was impeached against Johnson in 1868. The impeachment against him was brought only 11 days after the then war minister Edwin Stanchan withdrew. Edwin did not agree with the president's policies.

Johnson's case was completely opposite to Bill Clinton's. Johnson's impeachment survived by just one vote.

 

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