The president of the House of Representatives of the United States, Nancy Pelosi, has signed on Wednesday the statement of objections against the president of the country, Donald Trump, which has already been delivered to the Senate, the last step before the political trial begins (impeachment) in the upper house.
After signing, the specifications have been delivered to the majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who stressed that they will not be officially accepted until Thursday, as reported by the US television network CNN.
The delivery took place hours after the plenary session of the House has voted in favor of sending the articles to the Senate and ratifying the seven congressmen who will be responsible for exercising the accusation against Trump in the upper house, called 'managers'.
Those elected are the heads of the Judicial and Intelligence Commissions of the House of Representatives, Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, respectively, as well as that of the Administration Commission, Zoe Lofgren, to which Congressmen Hakeem Jeffries (New York) ), Val Demings (Florida), Jason Crow (Colorado) and Sylvia Garcia (Texas).
The seven 'managers' have been responsible for delivering the statement of objections after the signing by Pelosi, who had appointed them hours before for his “litigant” character.
“We want to present the strongest case possible to protect and defend our Constitution, to seek the truth for the American people,” said the president of the House of Representatives in an appearance.
In this way, the House of Representatives has lost control over the impeachment against Trump, a process that has dominated since the beginning of the official investigation, last September.
The American press has indicated in recent weeks that Pelosi would have resisted naming the 'managers', precisely, to force the Senate, a Republican majority, to agree on a protocol for the impeachment that the Democrats consider fair.
The head of the House Representatives said last week, when she announced that she would take this step, that her main fear is that some facts are dismissed and that those already indicated are not allowed to be expanded.
The White House has accused Pelosi of “lying when he said this (the impeachment) It was urgent and vital for national security, “given that it has been extended by a month” in an outrageous effort to gain political support. “
“The only ones that President Pelosi has achieved with this shameful and illegitimate process of impeachment is to show that it is focused on politics rather than on the American people, “he has reproached him in a statement.
The witness controversy
The Democrats claim that the witnesses who could not appear during the investigation in the House of Representatives, mostly members of the Trump Administration or their collaborators, do so now at the Senate trial.
The US president expressly gave the order to his subordinates not to cooperate with Congress in the investigation of the impeachment – hence the second charge against him – although some, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have already advanced that they are willing to do so in the Senate.
“We're here again,” Trump reacted on Twitter. “Another scam of Democrats who do nothing,” he said, arguing that “all this work (the testimonies) should be done by the House of Representatives, not the Senate.”
Schiff has argued that, if the House of Representatives had had to wait for the required witnesses to appear, the process would have been prolonged “years”, which “would have completely nullified the power of impeachment“.
In any case, it has downplayed the intervention of witnesses. “Witnesses can tell the truth or not, but the documents generally do not lie,” said the head of the Intelligence Commission.
The statement of objections
The impeachment It became a reality last December, when the House of Representatives – of a Democratic majority – agreed to formally accuse Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, forcing him to hold a political trial in the Senate that will conclude with his acquittal or termination.
Trump is accused of pressuring his Ukrainian pair, Volodimir Zelenski, to open two investigations: one on the alleged corrupts of the Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in the European country and another on the “discredited theory” that Kiev was, not Moscow, who interfered in the 2016 presidential elections.
According to US congressmen, Trump conditioned the opening of these two investigations on an “anxious” visit of Zelenski to the White House and the military aid that the United States gives to Ukraine in the framework of the war in Donbas.
The lower house is convinced that Trump sought to harm Biden and the Democrats in the face of the 2021 presidential elections, in which he will try to get a second term.
The New York tycoon has defended his innocence at all times, emphasizing that there was no “quid pro quo” with Zelenski, denouncing that he is the victim of a “witch hunt” of the Democrats because they have not yet digested their 2016 electoral victory. has shown that the Senate will knock the impeachment.
“President Trump has done nothing wrong,” the White House has reiterated. “He hopes to enjoy the right to due process in the Senate that President Pelosi and the House of Representatives have denied him and hopes to be exonerated,” he added.