Senate Republicans to look into whistleblower complaint about Trump pressuring Ukraine
Pressure in Congress to consider impeachment proceedings against President Trump grew Monday as new reports said he had ordered a holdup of aid to Ukraine just days before urging that country’s president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a possible Trump opponent in the 2020 presidential race.
“These allegations are stunning, both in the national security threat they pose and the potential corruption they represent,” the freshmen wrote in anThe signers, including Reps. Abigail Spanberger , Mikie Sherrill and Gil Cisneros , all have national security backgrounds, and six had previously opposed impeachment. Their position is likely to weigh heavily on Democratic leaders who have been reluctant to move toward an effort to remove Trump from office.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff said the acting director of national intelligence has refused to turn over the information. Sen. Susan Collins , a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she wanted to see the whistleblower’s complaint. “The law is clear that if the inspector general of the intelligence community received a whistleblower complaint that the IG deems is urgent, that that is to be reported to the leaders of the intelligence committee,” Collins said.
In a letter Monday to McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer warned that Republicans risked appearing “silent and submissive” if they failed to look into the matter, noting that the complaint “has been labeled ‘urgent’ and ‘credible’ not by Democrats, but by a senior-level Trump appointee.”
Sen. Ron Johnson said he opposes releasing a transcript of the call because the president should be able to have private conversations with foreign leaders. “It’s a very dangerous precedent, and I think it’s going to really harm any president, whether it’s this president or future presidents, ability to talk to world leaders candidly,” Johnson said.
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