Published 23:02 IST, September 25th 2019

Hillary Clinton backs impeachment, accuses Donald Trump of 'betrayal'

Former Secretary of the United States Hillary Clinton on September 25 said that she supports the formal impeachment inquiry launched against Donald Trump.

Reported by: Bhavya Sukheja
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Former Secretary of United States Hillary Clinton on September 25 said that she supports formal impeachment inquiry launched against Donald Trump saying that US President has betrayed country and is a "clear and present" danger. US 2016 Presidential candidate's tweets came after Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's anuncement of launching a formal impeachment inquiry.  

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Clinton calls it "an emergency"

Hillary Clinton in an interview to international news outlet called it an 'emergency.' Clinton also called US President "a reckless, corrupt human torno" furr stating that President was undermining more perfect union. 

Speaking to international media outlet she said, “I did t come to that decision easily or quickly, but this is an emergency as I see it. This latest behavior around Ukraine, trying to enlist President of Ukraine in a plot to undermine former Vice President Biden or lose military aid he needs to defend against Trump's friend Vlimir Putin if that's t an impeachable offense, I don't kw what is.”

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Impeachment 

Nancy Pelosi declared on Wednesday that House of Representatives will open an official impeachment inquiry into US President, Donald Trump. recent turn of events is followed by a complaint of a whistleblower about President Trump pressuring President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to initiate an investigation into former Vice President, Joe Biden's son.

President Trump h mitted that he h a word with Ukrainian President and furr claimed that even though he was currently busy in representing US at United Nations, he would authorise release transcript of his conversation with Ukrainian leer. Fundamentally, impeachment is just first st of process divided into two parts in Constitution to prosecute and remove a President or any or federal official from office.

House of Representatives has power to impeach any official who commits a crime like bribery, treason or or misdemears from office. In present case of President Donald Trump, Pelosi believes that recent actions count as "betrayal of his oath in office".

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(Inputs from ANI)

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