AMERICA’s state department has so far not wanted to cooperate on rigsret against Trump. Now, says Pompeo something else.
the UNITED states secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, says he will be happy to testify and provide documents to an impeachment in the Senate against president Donald Trump.
– If it is appropriate and required by law, he says during a press conference. It writes the news agency Reuters.
the Words fall, while the members of the House of Representatives elsewhere in the city in the last debate on the impeachment of the president.
on the Night of Thursday local time, the final vote on impeachment proceedings against republican Trump. It wants the democrats who have the majority in the assembly.
– I will be happy to provide documents, I will be happy to witness, ” says Pompeo.
the Words fall, during a press conference along with visitors to the indian foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Janishankar.
– the Ministry of foreign affairs has done the same all the way through, and we will continue to do so, protests he.
pompeo’s ministry has so far ignored summons from The white House withheld key documents in the case. Several employees of the ministry of foreign affairs has been asked not to attend and testify in the proceedings.
It has several of them defied. Among them the former ambassador in Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
Trump is accused of attempting to blackmail the Ukraine to find dirt on his presumed democratic challenger in the presidential election in 2020, Joe Biden.
It has Yovanovitch and other actors in the ministry of foreign affairs and The White House confirmed. Among them Trumps personally appointed ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland.
another anklagepunkt, which is expected to be adopted in the House of Representatives on the night of Thursday, is that Trump has actively sought to put obstacles in the way of the solution.
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