Trump returns to Washington amid questions about impeachment

Trump returns to Washington amid questions about impeachment
 US President Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. Wednesday (December 4) as reporters shouted questions about impeachment as he and the First Lady returned to the White House.

The House Judiciary on Wednesday wrapped up hearings on whether Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival amounted to impeachable offenses, a hearing that laid the groundwork for formal charges to be filed against the president.

Democrats leading the effort said they may look beyond his relations with Ukraine as they draw up articles of impeachment, to include his earlier efforts to impede former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of his campaign's relations with Russia.

"It does not matter that President Trump felt that these investigations were unfair to him. It matters that he used his office, not merely to defend himself, but to obstruct investigators at every turn," Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said.

The impeachment inquiry, launched in September, focuses on Trump's request that Ukraine conduct investigations that could harm political rival Joe Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination.

The hearing on Wednesday was the committee's first to examine whether Trump's actions qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors" punishable by impeachment under the US Constitution.

Trump has denied wrongdoing.

In London for a NATO meeting, he called a report by House Democrats released on Tuesday that laid out possible grounds for impeachment a "joke" and appeared to question the patriotism of the Democrats, asking: "Do they in fact love our country?"

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