Democrat presidential front-runner Joe Biden will say on Tuesday that he is in favor of impeachment of Donald Trump if the Republican president does not comply with congressional requests for information on Ukraine and other matters, a spokesman said.
Biden, the former vice president, has become swept up in a political furor over reports that Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden and his son, an issue that has intensified Democratic calls for Trump's impeachment.
Congressional Democrats have sought information related to Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump has acknowledged he discussed Biden in the call, but denied he withheld nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine as leverage to get Zelenskiy to launch a probe that would damage Biden.
Biden is set to deliver a statement on the issue on Tuesday afternoon, where he will say "Trump's latest abuses are on top of all of his prior abuses," a campaign spokesman said.
"He's going to call on Trump to comply with all of Congress' outstanding lawful requests for information -- in the Ukraine matter, and in the other investigations -- and if Trump doesn't comply, Congress has no choice but to impeach," the spokesman said.
Biden, who leads polls in the Democratic race to pick a challenger to Trump in the November 2020 election, has said before that impeachment might be necessary if Trump refused to cooperate with ongoing investigations.
But the statement on Tuesday will be the first time he has made the call since the controversy over Ukraine surfaced last week. Other leading candidates, including Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, have called for impeachment.
In Washington, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, was to meet later on Tuesday with Democratic lawmakers to consider impeaching the Republican president as more lawmakers voiced support for the action.
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