On the recordDecember 12, 2019
on impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee will continue today its markup of Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump. The articles charge that President Trump abused the Office of the Presidency by soliciting the interference of a foreign power in our elections to benefit himself personally. The articles also charge him with obstruction of justice in the investigation into those matters. Those articles were drafted after a months-long investigation into the President's dealings with Ukraine, which included scores of fact witnesses and expert testimony. Throughout that time, and still today, the White House refuses to participate in the House process. It has blocked key witnesses. It has withheld relevant documents. It has instructed members of the administration to defy congressional subpoenas and not to testify. Those that did testify did so bravely against the wishes of the White House. What is the President hiding? What do these witnesses know? What do these documents show? Those are fair questions that every American could ask and, because neither the President nor Republican Congress Members have presented any refutation of the facts in the impeachment charges or any exculpatory evidence other than grand conspiracy theories, the American people have a right to say the President must be hiding something.…





