President Donald Trump abused his office by soliciting Ukraine’s government to deliver a political favour, then undertook an effort to obscure his conduct and obstruct a congressional investigation, the House Intelligence Committee concluded. The report by the panel’s Democratic-majority on its months-long investigation said Trump compromised national security and embarked on a campaign to block and intimidate potential and actual witnesses to his Ukraine-related conduct. “The president’s misconduct was not an isolated occurrence, nor was it the product of a naïve president,” the report said. Democrats have so far scheduled just the one hearing, but have been driving to complete any impeachment action by Christmas. Democrats seized on the whistle-blower complaint to fulfill their years-old obsession with removing President Trump from office,” the Republican report says.

Source: National Post December 03, 2019 19:41 UTC