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8 hours agoTrump attacks House Speaker: You're doing a bad service to this country.
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)US President Donald Trump criticised lawmakers on Tuesday for raising the charges as part of a process for his dismissal, while the situation over the judicial process to be held in the Senate continues to be unclear. They treated us very unjustly and now they want to be treated fairly in [...]
“They treated us very unjustly and now seek to be treated fairly in the Senate”, Mr. Trump told reporters at his resort in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in Florida.
Mr. Trump specifically criticised the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi for indefinitely postponing the charges to the Republican-controlled Senate in order to initiate the trial process.
She hates all those who voted for me and the Republican Party. She's doing this place a bad service”, said Mr. Trump.
In a vote along party lines, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives adopted two counts against President Trump last Wednesday, making him the third president in the country's 243-year history to which charges are pressed on his dismissal. President Trump is accused of abusing the task for political gain and of obstructing Congress' efforts to investigate its actions.
Last week, Republican leader Mitch McConnell dismissed calls by the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, to hear the testimony of four officials during trial for the launch process in the Senate, including National Security Adviser John Bolton and Staff Task Chief Mick Mulvaney. They had refused to testify during the investigation into the dismissal process in the House of Representatives.
However on Monday, Senator McConnell eased his stance, saying the Republicans have not ruled out the possibility of calling witnesses to the trial for the dismissal process.
“We have not ruled out the possibility of witnesses”, Senator McConnell said during the “Fox & Friends” show on Monday. “We think we should manage this case as we did with President Clinton. That would be fair”.
In addition to bearing witness testimony, Senator Schumer said on Monday he wants access to emails and other important documents that “will shed further light on the administration's decision regarding delays for security funds in Ukraine”.
The process against President Trump arose by a call taken up in July with Ukraine's president, during which President Trump seeks to investigate one of the main political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she will not submit the charges to the Senate and that she will not elect lawmakers who serve as prosecutors until the Senate agrees on the rules that will govern the judicial process.
The Senate is not authorized to enter trial without pretaking charges from the House of Representatives.
President Trump has insisted he has done nothing wrong when he urged Ukraine to investigate one of his main democrat challengers, Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, for his lucrative work in a natural gas company in Ukraine. President Trump had also called for investigation into the lines of an already-rejected theory, that Ukraine was the country that intervened in the American elections in 2016.
President Trump called for investigation into the Biden family at a moment when he had suspended $331m in military assistance Ukraine needed to help fight pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
