WATCH: Michael Gerhardt says Trump is ‘abusing the trust placed in him by the American people’

Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, told House lawmakers on Dec. 4 that President DonaldTrump has “engaged in a pattern of abusing the trust placed in him by the American people by soliciting foreign countries – including China, Russia,

and Ukraine – to investigate his political opponents and interfere on his
behalf in elections in which he is a candidate.” Gerhardt spoke
during the first day of public hearings by the Judiciary Committee in the
impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The focus of the Judiciary
hearing, which came after the House Intelligence Committee held hearings in

late November, is to define the grounds for a presidential impeachment. The
impeachment inquiry has revolved around a July 25 phone call in which Trump
asked the president of Ukraine to investigate former vice president and 2020
presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.


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