In their third and final day of opening arguments, Democrats tried to cement their case that Trump abused his power.
US President Donald Trump was the ringleader of an effort to coerce Ukraine to dig up dirt on a domestic political rival,"worked hard" to cover it up and has shown no remorse, Democratic lawmakers said on Friday in his impeachment trial.
They say Trump temporarily withheld US$391 million in US military aid to Ukraine as leverage for his demands. Trump's allies have argued his conduct does not rise to the level of an impeachable offence. The US Constitution sets out the impeachment process for removing a president who commits"high crimes and misdemeanours."
If true, that would bolster Democrats' argument that Trump associates spent nearly a year trying to oust Yovanovitch because they saw her as an obstacle in their efforts to pressure Ukraine. "The Do-Nothing Democrats just keep repeating and repeating, over and over again, the same old 'stuff' on the Impeachment Hoax.
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