WASHINGTON - The clock has ticked closer to impeachment for President Donald Trump as the Democratic Party-controlled House Intelligence Committee released a report laying out its case - immediately drawing scathing criticism of the move by the White House which compared it to the"ramblings of a basement blogger".
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham immediately rejected the impeachment inquiry as a"one-sided sham process" that after weeks of private and public testimony from witnesses about the administration's contacts with Ukraine had"failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump".
At the centre of the inquiry is a July 25 phone call in which President Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart, Mr Volodymyr Zelensky, to probe debunked allegations about Ukraine's involvement in the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee, and to investigate former vice-president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's connections in Ukraine. Mr Joe Biden is currently the top contender for the Democratic Party's nomination to face Mr Trump in the November 2020 election.
"As expected, there will be a partisan impeachment, fail in the Senate, and Trump will wear it like a badge of honour for his re-election campaign, which he has a fair chance of winning," Dr Robert Manning, resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Centre for Strategy and Security, told The Straits Times.
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