House Democrats' report on the impeachment inquiry finds Trump has solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election

Source: USA Today

December 3, 2019 at 15:03

Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has already summarized the findings – from weeks of depositions behind closed doors and in public hearings – as a more serious abuse of power and obstruction of Congress than what drove former President Richard Nixon to resign during his impeachment inquiry.

WASHINGTON – Three House committees investigating the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump uncovered a months-long effort "to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election," according to their draft report released Tuesday.

"The evidence of the President’s misconduct is overwhelming, and so too is the evidence of his obstruction of Congress," the 300-page report said.

The three panels spent weeks taking sworn testimony from 17 witnesses from the State Department and national security officials. The witnesses described Trump withholding a White House meeting and then military aid from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky unless he announced investigations of Trump's political rival, Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter. The Intelligence Committee then held five days of public hearings with 12 of the witnesses.

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