US president used his office to fight political opponents

Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, said during the interrogation that he was involved in a campaign to put pressure on Ukraine to hit the political rivals of Donald Trump.
The scandal is about the suspicion that the US president ordered the representatives of the official administration to put pressure on Ukraine and other foreign governments to help him in internal political struggle. In exchange for an audience at the White House, Trump wanted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski to open an investigation against a Ukrainian gas company in which son of Joe Biden was employed. Democrat Biden is one of Trump's potential competitors in the presidential election in 2020.
What can the consequences be? In theory, Trump may even be removed from office if the accusations are serious enough, but according to commentators, for the time being, it is more likely that the interrogations will severely hurt him in his re-election efforts.
(300gospodarka)