Dueling Impeachment Reports: Democrats Claim ‘Evidence’ of Trump Misconduct, Republicans Say There Isn’t Any (READ HERE)

• Dueling Impeachment Reports: Democrats Claim ‘Evidence’ of Trump Misconduct, Republicans Say There Isn’t Any (READ HERE)
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Impeachment hearings have shown evidence that US President Donald Trump solicited election interference from Ukraine for personal gain, says a new report by the House Democrats. Republicans say that no such evidence was given.
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  House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-California) published a 300-page report on Tuesday, as part of the official impeachment inquiry authorized in October despite bipartisan opposition. The report claims that both the secret depositions and the public hearings held over the past month have shown evidence that Trump “solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection” by conditioning US aid to Kiev on “politically-motivated investigations” into Trump’s domestic political opponent Joe Biden.
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  “In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the US presidential election process, and endangered US national security,” the Schiff report asserts.
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  Even though the Schiff report claims to represent the views of both Republicans and Democrats on the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees, on Monday the GOP members of the Intelligence committee published their own minority report, dissenting from his assertions.
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  None of the evidence presented proves the Democrats’ allegations, nor have any witnesses testified to “bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor,” says the 123-page Republican document.
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  “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system,” the minority report says, adding that the House majority is “trying to impeach a duly elected president based on the accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who disagreed with President Trump’s policy initiatives and processes.”
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  Schiff’s report is literally titled “Trump-Ukraine,” echoing the “Trump-Russia” narrative the Democrats previously staked their impeachment hopes on, until special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe crashed and burned earlier this year.
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  There was talk of launching the impeachment over possible “obstruction” of the Mueller investigation, but nothing came of it until Schiff launched the Ukraine probe. Democrats are now accusing Trump of both misconduct when it came to Ukraine, and obstruction for daring to defend himself from their investigation.
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  While the mainstream press has embraced Schiff’s report with the same zeal as they’ve promoted ‘Russiagate,’ many skeptics on both sides of the political spectrum remain unconvinced.
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  Progressive journalist Aaron Mate, for example, pointed out that while Schiff’s report contains multiple mentions of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, not once does it reflect his testimony that he “presumed” the aid to Ukraine was conditioned on investigations.
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