The documents relate to a call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n In the call, Mr Trump pushed Mr Zelensky to investigate his leading Democratic political rival, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n The impeachment inquiry stems from the call, which was flagged up by a whistleblower in August.<\/p>\n The whistleblower alleged that Mr Trump used a $400m military aid package to Ukraine, which had been suspended earlier in July, as leverage to persuade Mr Zelensky. The White House released the aid in September.<\/p>\n Mr Trump has denied any wrongdoing, accusing his political opponents of a “witch hunt”.<\/p>\n But in a move to crank up the pressure on the president, the three House committees leading the investigation have given him until 18 October to hand over the documents.<\/p>\n “We deeply regret that President Trump has put us – and the nation – in this position, but his actions have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena,” the Democrats wrote in a letter to the White House.<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n The subpoena – an order to hand-over evidence – was issued on Friday by the chairmen of the committees for Oversight, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham sought to play down the subpoena, saying it “changes nothing”.<\/p>\n A separate request for records has also been sent to Vice-President Mike Pence, with Democrats asking him to clarify “any role you may have played” in Mr Trump’s overtures to Ukraine.<\/p>\n If Democrats manage to impeach Mr Trump – by way of a vote in the House of Representatives – a trial would be held in the Senate.<\/p>\n Senators would have to vote to convict Mr Trump by a two-thirds majority to remove him from office.<\/p>\n But that outcome is seen as unlikely given that the president’s fellow Republicans control the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The documents relate to a call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July In the call, Mr Trump pushed Mr Zelensky to investigate his leading Democratic political rival, Joe Biden. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12],"tags":[6850,5178,11284,11337,913,2825,6576,11858,4074,10197,2471,5205,11743,3186,5572,6779,12727,3805,9420,6575,8501,11581,5180,5555,2826,184,6348,4178,2857,6571,2982,2472],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-biden","tag-convict","tag-demand","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-flagged","tag-impeachment-inquiry","tag-investigation","tag-joe-biden","tag-july","tag-majority","tag-mike-pence","tag-military","tag-military-aid","tag-package","tag-president","tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-trial","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-whistleblower","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-zelensky"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}