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Impeachment Inquiry Into Trump
The inquiry process which preceded the first impeachment of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, was initiated by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on September 24, 2019, after a whistleblower alleged that Donald Trump may have abused the power of the presidency. Trump was accused of withholding military aid as a means of pressuring newly elected president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to pursue investigations of Joe Biden and his son Hunter and to investigate a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election. More than a week after Trump had put a hold on the previously approved aid, he made these requests in a July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president, which the whistleblower said was intended to help Trump's reelection bid. Believing critical military aid would be revoked, Zelenskyy made plans to announce investigations into the Bidens on the September 13 episode of CNN's ''Fareed Zakaria GPS' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Hill (presidential Advisor)
Fiona Hill (born 1 October 1965) is an Anglo-American academic, foreign affairs advisor and author, who since 2023 has served as Chancellor of Durham University. Appointed a defence adviser upon Labour's election to Government in July 2024, Hill was formerly an official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs. She was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Hill read Russian at the University of St Andrews (graduating Master of Arts (Scotland), MA), then pursued postgraduate studies in History at Harvard University (taking a PhD in 1998), before being elected a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Early life and education Hill was born in 1965 at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in North East England, a daughter of a coal miner, Alfred Hill, and midwife, June Murray. Her father died in 2012; her mother still lives in Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |