Committee on the Judiciary

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BERNIE SANDERS  MINORITY  MEMBER

U.S. Impeachment to the President of the United States

President. Donald J. TRUMP

MINORITY STAFF  REPORT

Committee on the Judiciary

United States Senate

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After the 2016 elections where the Republican candidate Donald Trump and after assuming the position of President of the United States of America. From the first day there are those who request a political trial against him after the departure of his advisor on National Security, "Michael Flynn", for having spoken with the Russian government about the sanctions that former President Barack Obama imposed on Russia. Moreover, in August 2016, his then chief of campaign, Paul Manafort, resigned after being involved in a corruption scandal in Ukraine. According to the BBC, the Ukrainian investigation concluded that Paul Manafort received at least 28.5 million dollars from the Party of the Regions of ex- Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. He had previously been questioned about his links with the Russian government, since it was apparently he who contacted the Russian government with the Trump campaign. This according to a report by The New York Times. Without forgetting that among the articles presented there is one for which the president is accused of "obstructing justice", by dismissing James Comey from the position of director of the FBI.

All this led to a federal grand jury in Washington approved on Friday, October 27, 2017 the first charges in the investigation led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller on the alleged intervention of Russia in the 2016 presidential election in the United States and with this demonstrated that there are different actors that could bind the President of the United States to a greater crime betrayal. Since most of those involved have been close members of the President who have also confessed possible ties with Russia during the elections, such as:

His son Donald Trump, who was a counselor in his father's campaign. He was the protagonist of another major scandal that broke out a few months ago when it was learned that during the campaign on June 9, 2016 he had met with a Russian lawyer close to the Kremlin who allegedly had harmful information against Clinton and that according to Natalia Veselnitskaya this was part of Russia's support and his government for Mr. Trump. " In addition to the statement of Trump Jr. said that Manafort, Kushner and he participated in the meeting with Veselnitskaya, In addition that few days ago came into contact with WikiLeaks, the organization that distributed the documents that were hacked from the computers of the Democratic Party, allegedly for the Russians.

George Papadopoulos, foreign policy advisor to the campaign, confesses that he had meetings with a woman he described as the niece of President Vladimir Putin, as well as with the Russian ambassador in London in March of last year. This accusation by Papadopoulos is the strongest evidence of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to favor his election.

Jeff Sessions the Secretary of Justice. He recused himself in March from investigations into the Trump campaign, after being accused of lying under oath about meetings with Kislyak. (Russian Ambassador)

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