.@RepValDemings calls it straight: "President Trump did not take these extreme steps to hide evidence of his innocence or to protect the institution of the presidency ... The president is engaged in the cover-up because he is guilty, and he knows it."
@RepValDemings Even with the president's efforts to stonewall, the House found overwhelming evidence of Trump's wrongdoing.
Documents from the State Department are crucial to complete the picture.
Documents from the State Department are crucial to complete the picture.
@RepValDemings Sondland, Holmes, Volker, Kent, and Taylor all provided damning testimony.
The Senate needs to see the documents that back that testimony up.
The Senate needs to see the documents that back that testimony up.
@RepValDemings Pompeo, Perry, Mulvaney—testimony so far suggests they played crucial roles in the effort to extort Ukraine.
The State Department is sitting on documents that would show just how culpable they were.
The State Department is sitting on documents that would show just how culpable they were.
@RepValDemings There is no real excuse for the State Department to withhold documents from the Senate's trial.
The only reason to do so is to cover for the president.
The only reason to do so is to cover for the president.
@RepValDemings .@RepValDemings outlines four key categories of documents the State Department is withholding but could provide.
Category one: WhatsApp and text messages between State Department officials in Ukraine like Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker.
Category one: WhatsApp and text messages between State Department officials in Ukraine like Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker.
@RepValDemings A second category of documents the State Department needs to produce: Emails between State Department officials and their Ukrainian counterparts about the quid pro quo for investigations into Trump's political opponents.
@RepValDemings The Senate also needs to learn the full extent of Giuliani's communications with the State Department—which the State Department has already collected, but refuses to turn over.
@RepValDemings Category three: Ambassador Bill Taylor's first-person memo objecting to the Trump administration's decision to withhold military aid to extort Ukraine and any documents related to how it was received within the State Department.
@RepValDemings Category four: "contemporaneous first-person accounts from State Department officials who were caught up in President Trump's corrupt scheme," including Taylor, Kent, and Holmes.
