US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has slammed the US House of Representatives for holding impeachment hearings while Donald Trump was out of the country.

He stated that “it is very painful” that the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives set the impeachment hearings on the day when Trump was in London with the other leaders of NATO member states.

Trump is blamed for blocking nearly $400,000,000 of military assistance to Ukraine, demanding that Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly promise to conduct an investigation into a corruption case against Joe Biden, who is Trump’s opponent in the 2020 presidential elections.