“The impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection.”
The House Intelligence Committee voted 13-9 to adopt the impeachment report. which will now go to the Judiciary Committee.
If you have been following the story closely, you won’t find much new about Trump in the report, although it does a nice job of outlining the timeline.
However …
Here are some things you may not know:
The committee hit the jackpot by subpoenaing phone records from AT&T and Verizon. The evidence showed that Devin Nunes spoke several times to Rudy Giuliani earlier this year, around the same time that Giuliani was publicly attacking Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. The records also show that in April, Nunes spoke to Giuliani’s recently-indicted henchman, Lev Parnas, whose lawyer has claimed he was explicitly tasked by Trump to investigate the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine. Nunes never disclosed his calls with Giuliani or Parnas, although he obviously realized that both of them figure prominently in the impeachment proceedings and therefore that any dealings with them could be perceived as a conflict of interest.
(Here is the WaPo’s take on the call records.)
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