BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi announces impeachment managers for US Senate trial against President Trump: Reps. Nadler, Schiff, Crow, Demings, Jeffries, Lofgren and Sylvia Garcia.
in Ukraine, saying they highlighted the need for witness testimony at the impeachment trial.
"There can be no full & fair trial in the Senate if Leader McConnell blocks the Senate from hearing witnesses and obtaining documents President Trump is covering up," Pelosi said in one tweet. “The President has fought tooth-and-nail to keep thousands of documents away from the public," the speaker said in another tweet."And no wonder — each time new pieces come out, they show President Trump right at the center of the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.”
The documents — part of the evidence turned over to House impeachment investigators by lawyers for Lev Parnas, a Giuliani associate who is awaiting trial on campaign finance charges — include a letter from Giuliani requesting a private meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, then the president-elect of Ukraine, with Trump's"knowledge and consent."Trump has previously tried to distance himself from his attorney's Ukraine work, saying in November,"I didn't direct him.
There can be no full & fair trial in the Senate if Leader McConnell blocks the Senate from hearing witnesses and obtaining documents President Trump is covering up.
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