Pelosi says Trump has admitted to bribery as impeachment probe intensifies


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  • Thursday, 14 Nov 2019

FILE PHOTO: Chairman Adam Schiff (L), Democrat of California, and Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R), Republican of California, watch as witness U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Ambassador William Taylor leaves following his testimony during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., November 13, 2019. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday President Donald Trump already has admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of a Democratic-led inquiry, accusing him of an impeachable offence under the U.S. Constitution.

"The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections. That's bribery," Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, told a news conference the day after the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry she announced in September.

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