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US Senate returns amid standoff over impeachment trial


Monitoring Desk

WASHINGTON: US
lawmakers return to Washington on Friday with President Donald Trump’s upcoming
impeachment trial looming over the first Senate session of 2020, but
congressional leaders are locked in stalemate over how to proceed.

As Congress braces for
a frenetic January, newly uncovered evidence could bolster Democrats’ demands
for testimony from key witnesses with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s Ukraine
pressure scheme at the heart of the impeachment scandal.

A series of emails
published on Thursday signal that the order to maintain a freeze on military
aid to Ukraine came directly from Trump, and reveal that the Pentagon raised
serious concerns about the legality of the directive.

House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi …read more

Source:: The Frontier Post

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