The House Judiciary Committee invited Trump to the agency's first impeachment hearing, scheduled to take place on the morning of December 4.

In a statement on November 26, House Justice Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he had sent a letter to Donald Trump to remind that the committee's rules allowed the President to attend the hearing and that his lawyer had the right to question the witnesses.

"The President may take this opportunity to speak up in impeachment hearings, otherwise stop complaining about the process. I hope he chooses to participate in the investigation, either directly or through lawyers like other presidents did before him, "Nadler said.

The House Judiciary Committee set a deadline of 18h on December 1 (6am on December 2, Hanoi time) for Trump to answer whether he participated in the hearing, as well as appoint a defense lawyer.

Nadler further stated in the letter that the hearing was intended to provide an opportunity to discuss the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment, as well as the definition of "felony and misdemeanor." Legal experts will go to the hearing to testify, but their identities have not been determined.

The process of investigating the impeachment of Trump on the Democratic side focused on a July 25 telephone conversation between the US President and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. An anonymous whistleblower accused the White House boss of urging Kiev to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden for personal political purposes.

US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Trump's impeachment investigation report will be published early next month after the Thanksgiving holiday, adding that the report will list the times when the White House refused to merge. cooperating with the investigation.

The Intelligence Council last week ended two weeks of public hearings and weeks of interviewing secret witnesses in the impeachment investigation, setting the stage for MPs to draft the report. Schiff said the investigation is still ongoing, investigators can still hold testimony or hearing.

Trump denied false allegations and many of his Republican allies called the investigation a hoax, prank, or Democratic attempt to reverse the 2016 presidential election results.