CAN, Washington :
The US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday (Dec 18) to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him just the third president to be impeached in US history.
The matter now moves to a Senate trial to determine whether he will be removed from office, an unlikely event given that the chamber is controlled by his fellow Republicans.
Trump holds a 30-minute telephone conversation with Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky, a former professional comedian who was elected in May.
Earlier in July, Trump – without explanation – suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine which had been approved by Congress.
An anonymous whistleblower in the US intelligence community files an internal complaint about the Trump-Zelensky call, describing it as a matter of “urgent concern”.
The military assistance to Ukraine is released by the White House.
Following days of reports that Trump pushed Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, his potential Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential election, and his son Hunter, Democrats in the House of Representatives announce the opening of an impeachment inquiry for abuse of power.
The White House releases a rough transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call.
It confirms that the president repeatedly asked the Ukrainian leader to probe the Bidens and to “look into” the matter with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and with Attorney General Bill Barr.
The House Intelligence Committee releases the whistleblower’s complaint, which accuses Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election”.
The US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday (Dec 18) to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him just the third president to be impeached in US history.
The matter now moves to a Senate trial to determine whether he will be removed from office, an unlikely event given that the chamber is controlled by his fellow Republicans.
Trump holds a 30-minute telephone conversation with Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky, a former professional comedian who was elected in May.
Earlier in July, Trump – without explanation – suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine which had been approved by Congress.
An anonymous whistleblower in the US intelligence community files an internal complaint about the Trump-Zelensky call, describing it as a matter of “urgent concern”.
The military assistance to Ukraine is released by the White House.
Following days of reports that Trump pushed Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, his potential Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential election, and his son Hunter, Democrats in the House of Representatives announce the opening of an impeachment inquiry for abuse of power.
The White House releases a rough transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call.
It confirms that the president repeatedly asked the Ukrainian leader to probe the Bidens and to “look into” the matter with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and with Attorney General Bill Barr.
The House Intelligence Committee releases the whistleblower’s complaint, which accuses Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election”.
