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Washington: Senior Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings, who was at the centre of the Trump impeachment inquiry, died on Thursday at the age of 68, his office said.
The veteran Baltimore representative passed away at a hospital in his home city “due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” a statement from his office said without giving the cause of death. As the highly respected chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings was at the centre of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and had clashed with him repeatedly in recent months. The House panel is one of three probing whether Trump pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden and help the president win re-election next year.
Trump set aside his feud with the Democrats to extend condolences to Cummings’ family and friends. “I got to see first hand the strength, passion and wisdom of this highly respected political leader. His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard, if not impossible, to replace!” he wrote on Twitter. (AFP)
The veteran Baltimore representative passed away at a hospital in his home city “due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” a statement from his office said without giving the cause of death. As the highly respected chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings was at the centre of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and had clashed with him repeatedly in recent months. The House panel is one of three probing whether Trump pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden and help the president win re-election next year.
Trump set aside his feud with the Democrats to extend condolences to Cummings’ family and friends. “I got to see first hand the strength, passion and wisdom of this highly respected political leader. His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard, if not impossible, to replace!” he wrote on Twitter. (AFP)
