House Democrats are ramping up their attacks on Trump and his administration as we head into the 2020 election cycle.
Democrat chairmen of three key committees subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday as part of their impeachment investigation.
Politico reported:
Democrats hit the gas on their impeachment inquiry Friday, subpoenaing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents they demanded weeks earlier that describe a pattern of interactions between President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and senior Ukrainian officials who they pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the subpoena in consultation with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who have been probing Trump’s solicitation of foreign help in the 2020 election.
“The subpoenaed documents shall be part of the impeachment inquiry and shared among the Committees. Your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry,” the three chairmen wrote in a letter to Pompeo.
In addition to the subpoena, Democrats scheduled depositions with five people in the Trump-Ukraine ‘scandal’ cooked up by a Deep State CIA ‘whistleblower’:
U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was previously removed by Trump and criticized by the president in the call with Zelensky — U.S. ambassador Kurt Volker, who facilitated some of Giuliani’s contacts with Ukrainian officials; deputy assistant secretary George Kent, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl and Ambassador Gordon Sondland. The depositions are set to take place between Oct. 2 and Oct. 10, while Congress is out on a two-week recess.
Democrats say they've scheduled depositions with five key figures in Ukraine scandal.
October 2, 2019: Yovanovitch
October 3, 2019: Volker
October 7, 2019: Kent
October 8, 2019: Brechbuhl
October 10, 2019: Sondland— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) September 27, 2019
