{"id":5140,"date":"2019-09-26T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/trump-impeachment-lawmakers-see-troubling-whistleblower-complaint\/"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:03:36","slug":"trump-impeachment-lawmakers-see-troubling-whistleblower-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2019\/09\/26\/trump-impeachment-lawmakers-see-troubling-whistleblower-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment: Lawmakers see &#8216;troubling&#8217; whistleblower complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n<p>Media playback not supported on the device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media captions<\/span>Impeachment Trump: Was there a quad pro phenomenon?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US lawmakers were the first to report accusations against Donald Trump and demanded impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>One Democratic Party described the Communist Party as &quot;pain,&quot; while describing it as &quot;interference.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The American media complained about the controversial call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n<p>The latest information will be testified by the US Information Governor on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>An explanation of Joseph McGuire&#39;s complaint by an unnamed intelligence officer will be scrutinized when he appears in front of members of the House of Commons Intelligence Committee on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The content of the complaint is still classified, but the chief Democrat of the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, demanded the release immediately.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference Wednesday evening, President Trump dismissed the impeachment again as &quot;fake&quot; and &quot;witch witch.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Dissecting Phone Behind Trump Impeachment Push<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Trump Cole, Ukraine President Shy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to a telephone call on July 25, President Trump asked Ukraine&#39;s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption claims related to Trump&#39;s rival Joe Widen&#39;s son in his next presidential election. There is no evidence that Bidens committed.<\/p>\n<p>Byden Wednesday accused Trump of &quot;abuse of power.&quot;<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"embed embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"embed-region\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Twitter post by @JoeBiden\">\n            <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"off-screen jump-link\" href=\"#jump-linkhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1177020459767873536\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skip Twitter posts by @JoeBiden<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump called on Ukraine to smear his political opponents. It is abuse of power to violate the oath of office and undermine democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament should be responsible for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1177020459767873536?ref_src=twsrc{7be40b84a6a43fc4fae13304fce9a2695859798abfc41afd127b9f8b21c5f9c5}5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p class=\"off-screen\" id=\"jump-linkhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1177020459767873536\" tabindex=\"-1\">End of Twitter posts by @JoeBiden<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What&#39;s the latest?<\/h2>\n<p>Complaints about the president were delivered directly to members of Congress on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times, President Trump is related not only to his call to Zelensky, but also to how the White House staff handles conversation records.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Schiff, Democratic Party Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said, \u201cI knew the charges were badly confused.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <\/p>\n<p>Media playback not supported on the device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media captions<\/span>Trump: &amp; # 39; will be the call of hell. &amp; # 39; turned out to be nothing &amp; # 39;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&quot;What this courageous individual did seems to be a serious mistake,&quot; he cited the whistleblower. &quot;We will do everything possible to protect you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers said they wanted to hear from the whistleblower at some point, but the meeting was not scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Mike Quigley said the Republican Senator Ben Sasse, of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said there was a &quot;real problem.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Republicans don&#39;t turn wagons [to protect Mr Trump]&quot;He said.<\/p>\n<p>But Congressman Mike Conaway of the House Intelligence Committee added that he did not think the complaint would compromise Trump. &quot;I have never seen bothering me&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Schumer, who called for the disclosure of the complaint, said: &quot;The public has the right to read the complaint of the whistleblower by themselves.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">How about impeachment investigation?<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats accuse President Trump of seeking foreign help to use Joe Viden as a tool to smear and negotiate hope.<\/p>\n<p>Under the US Constitution, the president can be impeached for &quot;history, bribery or other high crimes and negligence.&quot; This can be dismissed from the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Trump freezes military aid to Ukraine, but claimed that it was not used to pressure Kiev&#39;s new government.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"http:\/\/umang.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1569477676_473_Trump-impeachment-Lawmakers-see-troubling-whistleblower-complaint.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Media playback not supported on the device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media captions<\/span>&quot;He violated too many constitutional provisions&quot;-US citizens respond to impeachment investigation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A congressional vote to impeach the president may spark a trial on whether to remove President Trump from the office in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional investigations have focused in part on whether Trump has abused presidential power and tried to help his reelection by undermining President Biden with the help of foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Congressman spokesman Nancy Pelosi declared that the action marked &quot;betrayal of his oath&quot; and &quot;nobody is under law.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But Wednesday, Trump denied that he put pressure on President Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#39;t do it. I didn&#39;t threaten anyone,&quot; he said. &quot;No pressure, no pressure, nothing. It&#39;s all scams, people, all big scams.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What did Trump say about Biden on the phone?<\/h2>\n<p>Trump discussed the removal of the newly elected Zelensky and prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016, according to a telephone conversation announced by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the United States quoted in a 30-minute call: &quot;I was told that I had a very good test. He was closed and really unfair. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Many people are talking about it. How they closed your very good prosecution and you were involved with very bad people.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\">\n                <span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Joe Biden hopes to be a Democratic presidential candidate in next year&#39;s election.<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He continues. &quot;Another thing is that there are many stories about Biden&#39;s suspension of prosecution against Biden&#39;s son. [of Mr Biden&#8217;s son] Many people want to know about everything you can do. [US] The Attorney General will be great. <\/p>\n<p>According to ABC News, Governor Zelenski argued that discussing the Widen case was a precondition for all calls between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The president also asked Zelensky to investigate the matter with US Attorney General William Barr and Trump&#39;s private lawyer Rudolph Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department said on Wednesday that President Trump did not talk with the Attorney General about causing Ukraine to investigate Biden, and Bar did not communicate with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is the charge for Joe Biden?<\/h2>\n<p>President Trump and his conservative allies focused on how US Vice President Viden, 2016, lobbied to dismiss Ukraine from President Shokin.<\/p>\n<p>Shokin&#39;s office began an investigation into Burisma, a natural gas company whose Biden son Hunter Biden is a member of the board of directors. <\/p>\n<p>Other Western officials demanded dismissal because of the perception that President Shokin was weak about corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Biden threatened to withhold US $ 1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless Mr. Shokin was eliminated at a foreign policy event.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">How the controversy developed<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">July 18-President Trump asks White House aide for nearly $ 400 million in military aid to Ukraine <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">July 25-President Trump, talks with Ukrainian leader for 30 minutes<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">September 9-The council learned about the whistleblower&#39;s complaint about the call, but the Trump government did not see it.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">September 11-Ukrainian military aid from the Pentagon and the State Department to be released <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">September 23-President Trump says Ukraine&#39;s aid is due to &quot;corruption&quot; concerns.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">September 24-Trump says aid is withheld so that other countries can pay more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is the Trump-Ukraine Story?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-portrait no-caption full-width\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback not supported on the device Media captionsImpeachment Trump: Was there a quad pro phenomenon? 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