Trump news: Republicans attempt to stonewall impeachment hearing as witnesses outline damning evidence to remove president
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has claimed victory after Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz released his report claiming that the FBI did not pursue a politically motivated investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign — but that agents did tend to favour damaging evidence over exculpatory evidence as the investigation continued.
The report was released as House Judiciary Committee presented and reviewed the evidence accumulated so far in the impeachment inquiry, with charges against the president expected to be drawn up by the end of the week ahead of a potential pre-Christmas vote in the House of Representatives.
During the hearing, Democrats sought to impress upon the American people that the evidence against Mr Trump was nearly undeniable.
Republicans, meanwhile, did their best to throw the hearing off the traicks and raise as many distractions as possible.
The president is meanwhile under fire for hosting pardoned war criminals - army first lieutenant Clint Lorance and major Mathew Golsteyn - at a Florida Republican Party fundraising dinner over the weekend.
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Daniel Goldman clarifies what he did was "standard operating procedure" after he was essentially attacked by Doug Collins over the matter during previous questioning. He also says the White House performed a "complete stonewall" and that the White House and every other executive branch agency defied subpoenas.
Doug Collins is now back to questioning Daniel Goldman - and he's immediately back on the phone records issue.
More from The Independent's Andrew Feinberg:
Once again, Collins appears to think that it was necessary for someone on the staff of the Intelligence Committee to have known Devin Nunes’ phone number in order to match it with the numbers in the subpoenaed call records. It was not.
The FBI's investigation into contacts between Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia was justified and not politically biased, a report by the Justice Department's watchdog has found.
The findings refute Mr Trump's repeated claims of a deep-state "witch-hunt" to undermine his presidency.
The 434-page report, by the department's inspector general Michael Horowitz, says the so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation was justified in eavesdropping on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide who had made several visits to Russia.
The House Judiciary Committee has resumed its impeachment inquiry hearing.
Donald Trump has responded to the IG report, claiming it shows an attempt to "overthrow" the government:
Republicans are playing clips of Hunter Biden's recent interview and attempting to turn the focus onto Joe Biden's past comments about how the US was refusing to send crucial aid unless the former Ukrainian prosecutor was fired - which was US policy at the time.
Louie Gohmert says he will use his five minutes of questioning to instead effectively deliver a speech.
Louie Gohmert suggested that, if elected, Joe Biden could be impeached with the same articles of impeachment currently being considered against Donald Trump. This ignores the fact that the former vice president was following US policy while the current president was seemingly seeking political investigations for personal gain.
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