President Trump's claims appear to be at the center of a scandal involving a phone call with Ukraine's president, in which he reportedly pressed for a probe of his political rival.
Trump also denied that he pressured Zelensky to probe the Bidens, and said he would release a transcript of the call.“Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum and he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me," Biden said this weekend, telling reporters that Trump had abused his power and"violated the Constitution.
Biden said Tuesday he'd support impeachment if the president didn't cooperate with congressional oversight of the whistleblower complaint. Democrats had decried the administration for failing to provide the complaint to Congress after thethe matter an"urgent concern" that he was required by law to turn over to the congressional intelligence committees.
“If the president does not comply with such a request from the Congress, if he continues to obstruct Congress and flout the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of his own making," Biden said., the Trump administration reversed course on the whistleblower complaint. The White House is now preparing to turn over the complaint to Congress by Thursday, according to a senior administration official.
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