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By C.J. Atkins
With the explosive whistleblower revelation that Trump allegedly threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine to get dirt on the family of Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the launching of a formal impeachment inquiry against the President of the United States. Speaking at the Capitol Tuesday evening, Pelosi said that Trump’s “enlistment of a foreign power to intervene in a U.S. election” amounts to a “betrayal of his oath of office, of our national security, and of the integrity of our elections.”
Trump admits such a telephone call took place, and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, says it did indeed deal with obtaining compromising material on Biden, currently one of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. It has also been confirmed that in July, before the call with Zelensky happened, Trump had already ordered his acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to hold back $391 million in military aid to Ukraine, money which has since been released.
According to the claims of an anonymous source inside the intelligence establishment, Trump put the squeeze on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into the activities of the former Vice President and his son, Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company...
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