Everything you need to know if Trump impeachment moves start
Impeachment calls intensify amid reports the US president asked the ex-FBI director to halt probe of former national security adviser
US President Donald Trump’s critics stepped up calls for his impeachment after reports surfaced that in February Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to call off an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Flynn was fired by Trump after a Washington Post report revealing that former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who was also fired by Trump, warned White House officials weeks earlier that misrepresentations Flynn made about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Kremlin.
Trump’s critics, including numerous Democratic lawmakers, say the president’s efforts to get Comey to drop the Flynn investigation amounted to obstruction of justice, a charge that could lead to impeachment proceedings.
At a press conference Wednesday, US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan declared “we need the facts” and recommended a further investigation into recent matters regarding the US presidency as part of an “an obligation to carry out our oversight,regardless of which party is in the White House”.