{"id":111738,"date":"2019-09-25T03:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/25\/trump-slams-impeachment-inquiry-announcement-as-witch-hunt-live\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T03:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:15:19","slug":"trump-slams-impeachment-inquiry-announcement-as-witch-hunt-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=111738","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams impeachment inquiry announcement as 'Witch Hunt' \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

House speaker condemns Trump\u2019s \u2018betrayal\u2019Trump reportedly pressed Ukraine for dirt on Joe BidenPelosi announces impeachment inquiry into Trump over Ukraine scandal 2.15am BST Officials within the Trump administration tried to prevent Trump from meeting with or calling Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky out of concern that Trump would use such occasions as opportunities to press Zelensky to get intel on Joe Biden, according to the Washington Post: \u201cAn awful lot of people were trying to keep a meeting from happening for the reason that it would not be focused on Ukraine-U.S. relations,\u201d one former official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.White House officials disputed these accounts, saying that no such concerns were raised in National Security Council meetings and that Trump\u2019s focus was on urging Ukraine to root out corruption. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.One official \u2014 speaking, like others, on the condition of anonymity \u2014 described the climate as verging on \u201cbloodletting.\u201dTrump has fanned this dynamic with his own denunciations of the whistleblower and thinly veiled suggestions that the person should be outed. \u201cIs he on our Country\u2019s side. Where does he come from,\u201d Trump tweeted this week.\u201cRudy \u2014 he did all of this,\u201d one U.S. official said. \u201cThis s—show that we\u2019re in \u2014 it\u2019s him injecting himself into the process.\u201d 1.37am BST Although impeachment appears to be preoccupying the president, his administration did announce some new policy today:The US Agency for International Development announced today that it will be more than tripling aid to Venezuela. For the first time, the US will be directly funding Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 in his bid to topple the socialist administration of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The funding was mostly repurposed from aid originally earmarked for Honduras and Guatemala that President Donald Trump cut last year after accusing the Central American countries of failing to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S.The funding boost shows the level of U.S. support for Guaid\u00f3, who has drawn recognition as Venezuela\u2019s rightful leader by more than 50 nations. But he has been unable to translate the international support and popularity at home into real power capable of helping regular Venezuelans suffering from hyperinflation and an economic collapse akin to the destruction wrought by war. Continue reading…
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