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1998 respectively. The stage is now set after he demits the high office. The re- ered Trump’s victory.
for full hearing against Trump before the port stated that Trump had invoked on In this scholarly work, she quotes
Senate in early 2020. May 8, 2019, executive privilege to with- from a news item published in New York
The past three years of Donald Trump hold vital information about the case Times on June 8, 2016,that a Facebook
as president have been full of contro- from being passed to Congress. However, user had posted a link to DCLeaks.com
versies both in the domestic as well as in with the exposure of the Ukraine con- and wrote that users should check out
the international politics. His legitimacy troversy, Trump is now implicated in the the “the hidden truth about Hillary Clin-
was challenged when it was stated that impeachment. ton, George Soros and other leaders of
the Russian secret services influenced US”.
the voters in his favour by maligning his Trump’s defiance It may be noted that George
political rival Hillary Clinton. During his During the past three years, Trump has Soros, a Hungry-born billionaire is one of
the richest donors who liberally funded
Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The name
of the Facebook user was stated to be
Melvin Redick from Harrisburg, Penn-
sylvania, but the records revealed that no
such man existed. Later, it was learnt that
DECLeaks was the creation of the Rus-
sian military intelligence agency GRU.

While the issue of
the alleged Russian
interference in favour of
Trump may be probed,
there is an allegation
that the Ukraine has
been asked to support
Trump in the elections
by ordering an enquiry
against Joe Biden

•Politics ticks Trump tries to spin impeachment been trying to avoid any open enquiry Now impeachment
into re-election gold about the Russian role in his elections. While the issue of the alleged Russian
He has been claiming that the allegations interference in favour of Trump could
as “made up story, ridiculous and hoax”. be conclusively investigated, the alle-
present tenure in the oval office, he may Meanwhile, some academic stud- gation has come that the Ukraine has
have been wavering on many issues, but ies reveal that the Russian interference been asked to support President Donald
he took a firm stance on the issue of en- could be true. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a Trump in the forthcoming 2020 elections
quiring the allegation that the Russians professor of communications at the Uni- by ordering a through enquiry against
had helped him in getting elected. He has versity of Pennsylvania, has claimed in the former vice-president Joe Biden,
succeeded, though partially. In spite of her book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers who is seeking Republican nomination
the Mueller Report on the Investigation and Trolls Helped Elect a President-What for the coveted office. The process of the
into Russian Interference in the 2016 We Don’t, Can’t and Do Know. She even impeachment was set in on December 18,
Presidential Election, which has not sug- dares to ask — and even attempts to an- 2019 with the resolution of the House of
gested any action immediately against swer — whether Russian meddling had a Representatives on the abuse of power
the president, but it is not ruled out that decisive impact in 2016. On the basis of and obstruction to the Congress. Ear-
Trump can be prosecuted for concealing the available evidence and analysis, she lier, a House Impeachment Committee
facts or not cooperating with the enquiry concludes that Russia very likely deliv- enquiry revealed that to ensure his vic-

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