Trump, worse: two partners of his lawyer arrested for the operation against Biden

The two men donated $ 325,000 to a pro-Trump fundraising committee and are facing criminal charges, detailed the newspaper. They were arrested at Dulles Airport outside Washington while they were preparing to leave the country.

Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, identified Parnas and Fruman as his clients and participated in his efforts for Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who was part of the council. administration of a Ukrainian gas company. According to the researchers, the donations were used as resources in the investigation against the former vice president of administration, Barack Obama, and one of the Democrats' favorites for the 2020 elections.

President Trump's pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, to provide Giuliani with information about Biden's activities in the European country prompted him to start a political trial in the House of Representatives. Majority majority.

Last month, the Chamber sent letters to Parnas and Fruman asking for their testimonies and documents relating to their actions in Giuliani's favor.

"A growing public record indicates that the president, his agent Rudy Giuliani and other people seem to have put pressure on the Ukrainian government to pursue two political inquiries," wrote the president of the commission of inquiry.

According to the US press, Parnas was scheduled to appear today and Fruman tomorrow, although it was expected in advance that no one would voluntarily do so.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the two inmates, in partnership with Trump's personal attorney, managed to move the US ambassador to Moscow from his post. Giuliani used this open space to directly pressure Ukrainian prosecutors to obtain data prejudicial to Biden.

It should be remembered that in Trump's telephone conversation with Zelensky, the Republican asks his Ukrainian couple to collaborate with the former mayor of New York.

The president, at the center of criticism of his fellow Syrians for Syria, resumed his re-election campaign yesterday with a deed in Minneapolis, Minessota, in a state that has always voted for Democrats but where he almost dethroned Hillary Clinton in 2016 .

Trump chose the confrontation, refusing to cooperate with Congress and opening a period of great uncertainty that should put American institutions to the test.

But the strategy does not necessarily work well: a Fox News poll Wednesday night showed that 51% of Americans are inclined to overthrow the president, a nine-point jump from July.

And this figure is increasing across the political spectrum: among the Democrats (85% against 74% in July), the self-employed (39% against 36% in July) and the Republicans (13% against 8% in July) .

Can the White House thwart dismissal?

The White House's open questioning of the political trial has put the process in crisis as Loyalists and opponents of Donald Trump strive to embark on the battle for the US presidency in 2020.

Will the Democrats get documents and testimonials from key witnesses such as American diplomats, whose texting shows that they helped coordinate Trump's efforts to put pressure on Ukraine? Can Trump block the supervision of Congress?

Political trial procedures have only been conducted three times in 243 years of US history.

Former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton have been indicted by the House of Representatives, but have survived Senate trials, while Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 from the threat of dismissal.

The current crisis "is a historic confrontation," said Chris Edelson, government expert at American universities. "It's certainly the first time" that the lawsuit is about accusations of pressure on a foreign leader for him to interfere in the US elections, he said.

Several House committees are gathering information as part of the investigation and, although they have been repeatedly blocked, the body's chair, Nancy Pelosi, said that a "growing assembly evidence "indicated that Trump had abused his position. And they hope to advance to the political trial this year.

But the Trump administration is already preparing for a war in court. Justice Department lawyers cited the case of Nixon's political trial and said the courts should not have submitted Watergate's grand jury data to Congress. Nixon went to the Supreme Court as part of his unsuccessful attempt to avoid the broadcast of cassettes. It is therefore possible that the highest court is involved in the fight surrounding this dismissal.

Democrats analyze the possibility of participating in a protracted court battle or adding the allegation of obstruction to the articles of the political trial and playing it.

"The three-year effort, still underway to gain access to federal income tax returns from the president, perfectly illustrates the effectiveness" of a White House legal team can be effective to end the legal proceedings, wrote the constitutional scientist a few days ago the law school of Harvard, Laurence Tribe, in the newspaper USA Today.

The crisis is developing only a few months before the first vote of the Democratic primary process that begins in February in Iowa. The million dollar question is: do voters want impeachment to dominate the presidential race?

About half of voters approve of the survey, according to the latest polls.

But Democrats may also doubt the removal of any other means than elections, if the process is delayed.