House Democrats have released dozens of pages of new documents related to the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, including texts and notes turned over by a key associate to Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer working for the president who ran the Ukrainian backchannel campaign at the center of Trump’s impeachment.
Three House committees sent the evidence to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday “to be included as part of the official record that will be transmitted to the Senate along with the Articles of Impeachment.” The House is expected to send the articles to the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.
The evidence sent by the Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs committees included documents provided recently by Lev Parnas, who helped Giuliani dig up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden, in response to a subpoena Parnas received from the House in October. The committees said the evidence also included call records, which they did not make public due to their sensitivity.
“All of this new evidence confirms what we already know: the President and his associates pressured Ukrainian officials to announce investigations that would benefit the President politically,” the chairs of all four committees said in a statement.
The committees said Parnas “continues to provide material responsive to the subpoena on a rolling basis.”
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