5 articles tagged “first trump impeachment”.
On July 25, 2019, President Donald Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A White House memorandum of the conversation, subsequently released publicly, records Trump asking Zelenskyy to examine matters involving the 2016 election and former Vice President Joe Biden. The memorandum was not a verbatim transcript; it was a contemporaneous account prepared from notes and listening devices.
In the summer of 2019, the Trump administration placed a hold on congressionally appropriated security assistance to Ukraine. Officials testified that the delay caused concern inside the national security bureaucracy, particularly because Ukraine faced continuing Russian aggression.
A complaint from an intelligence-community whistleblower drew congressional attention to President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The complaint described information received from multiple officials about a July 2019 call and associated efforts to influence Ukrainian officials.
On December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The first concerned the administration’s dealings with Ukraine; the second concerned the White House’s resistance to the House investigation.
The Senate concluded Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial on February 5, 2020. Senators voted 48 guilty to 52 not guilty on abuse of power and 47 guilty to 53 not guilty on obstruction of Congress. Neither article reached the two-thirds threshold required for conviction.