Rick Perry has been subpoenaed by the House impeachment investigation to turn over key documents related to Trump’s call with Ukraine.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote to Perry, “Recently, public reports have raised questions about any role you may have played in conveying or reinforcing the President’s stark message to the Ukrainian President. These reports have also raised significant questions about your efforts to press Ukrainian officials to change the management structure at a Ukrainian state-owned energy company to benefit individuals involved with Rudy Giuliani’s push to get Ukrainian officials to interfere in our 2020 election.â€
Each subpoena that the Trump administration ignores or refuses to comply with is another step toward an obstruction article of impeachment.
Democrats aren’t expecting Trump and his administration to comply with these subpoenas, but they are building the case for systemic presidential obstruction on a scale that has never been seen before in the history of the country. Democrats aren’t going play Trump’s game and spend months fighting every single subpoena out in court. They already have the information that they need to impeach Trump right now.
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House Democrats are building the case for an article of impeachment related to the obstruction of Congress, and Trump is giving the evidence they need which each subpoena that he orders people like Rick Perry to ignore.
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