A formal investigation has begun by impeachment against the president of the United States, Donald Trump. He announced it Nancy Pelosi, Democratic speaker of the House and third state office, who made the decision after months of resistance, when part of his party was already pressing for the big step, linking the request to the Russiagate investigation conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
For a long time, Pelosi has resisted calls to impeach the president, convinced it could turn into a boomerang for Democrats. But now, faced with the Ukraine case and Trump's admission that he did pressure on Kiev to investigate Joe Biden's son, the senator had no more doubts.
In particular, the President is accused of trying to "enlist" a foreign government to receive political aid useful for his re-election: that of hitting his most likely opponent at the polls, former vice president Biden.
Trump is also accused of not wanting to collaborate with Congress which asked for clarity on the infamous phone call of last July 24 to the Ukrainian leader Voldymyr Zelensky, when at least eight times he would have asked for corruption to be investigated on the company on whose board the son of the former second-in-command of the Obama administration sat.
"The president must be held accountable" for "his betrayal of national security and the integrity of our elections," Pelosi told Congress. “The president's actions violated the Constitution. No one is above the law."
When the news was released, Trump had left the UN General Assembly a few hours ago, where he had spoken in front of world leaders from the stage of the United Nations General Assembly. As usual, his comment was entrusted to a tweet: "Such an important day at the United Nations, such a great job and such a great success, and the Democrats deliberately had to ruin and detract from it with more breaking news, with the rubbish of a witch hunt. What a bad thing for our country!”.
Trump speaks of "harassment of the president", of "witch hunts, when they have not even seen the transcript" of the phone call with the leader of Ukraine. He then names one by one those he deems responsible among the ranks of the Democrats: “Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff and obviously Maxine Watres. You can believe?".
Trump has assured that he will make public the transcript of the interview with Zelenski to demonstrate that no betrayal has taken place within the walls of the Oval Office.
