Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States president ial election to his advantage. President trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States government acts of significant value to ukraine on its Public Announcement of the investigations. President trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the National Security of the United States
officials defied subpoenas for testimony, namely mick mulvaney, robert blair, john eisenberg, michael ellis, preston griffith, russell vought, michael toughie, and t. ulrich brechbuhl, part of the president s efforts to encourage foreign interference in united states elections. by these actions the president sought to arrogate to himself the right to determine the nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own conduct as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all information to the house of representatives and the exercise of its sole power of the impeachment. in the history of the republic no president has ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct so comprehensively the ability of the house of representatives to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors. this abuse of office served to cover up the president s own
to produce a single document or record. three, directing current and former officials not to cooperate with the committees in response to which nine administration officials defied subpoenas. mulvaney, blair, ice en berg, ellis, vought. michael duffy, and others, these actions were consistent with president trump s previous efforts to undermine united states government investigations into foreign interference in the united states elections. through these actions president trump sought the right to determine the propriety, scope and nature of an impeachment inquiry and his own conduct and deny any and all information to the house of representatives in exercise of its sole power of impeachment. in the history of the republic no president has ever ordered the complete defiance has sought to obstruct the ability of the house of representatives to investigation high crimes
background. and today that right is under attack like never before. in 2016, russia interfered in our elections in sweeping and systematic fashion. and as we know, the trump administration campaign welcomed at that time that interference. and now the president of the united states has solicited the interference of a foreign government in the 2020 presidential election for his own advantage. president trump abused his power and then engaged in a wholesale obstruction of congress to cover it up. the fact remains that in the history of our republic no president has ever ordered such a complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry until now. if anything is clear it is this, every american deserves to know that their president will not
administration, the campaign welcomed at that time that interference. and now the president of the united states has solicited the interference of a foreign government in the 2020 presidential election for his own advantage. president trump abused his power and then engaged in a wholesale obstruction of congress to cover it up. the fact remains that in the history of our republic no president has ever ordered such a complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry until now. if anything is clear, it is this. every american deserves to know that their president will not endanger our national security, that he or she won t seek to use their power to undermine our free and fair elections and that they won t tap a foreign