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In the midst of a riff on trade policy during a campaign rally in Sunrise last week, President Donald Trump name-checked Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Miami Democrat who will have a say in this week’s impeachment hearings as the probe shifts to the House Judiciary Committee.

“Yet, [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] and the Democrats, they just have done nothing,” Trump said to his supporters. “They’re doing nothing, folks. They’re doing nothing. It’s a terrible thing. It’s a terrible thing. So, Congresswoman Mucarsel-Powell, where is she? Is she here? I’d love to see her and Congresswoman [Donna] Shalala.”

Mucarsel-Powell responded, via video, by noting her work on impeachment, which for months was a political third-rail for many Democrats in competitive districts like her Miami-to-Key West seat that has frequently changed party hands in the last decade.

‘I’m not afraid of you.’ Debbie Mucarsel-Powell embraces Trump impeachment role

Congress candidate’s husband has financial ties to scandal-plagued Ukrainian oligarch

The husband of a Miami Democrat hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo this November has financial ties to an Eastern European oligarch dogged by allegations of contract killings and embezzlement.

Public records show that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s husband, Robert Powell, spent much of the last 10 years as general counsel for companies owned at least in part by Igor Kolomoisky, a wealthy Ukrainian businessman involved in banking and mining. In federal financial disclosures, Mucarsel-Powell reported that her husband of 15 years earned most of their household income during the previous two years — at least $695,000 — from a ferroalloys trading corporation associated with Kolomoisky.

Mucarsel-Powell, considered by national Democrats as one of the most likely challengers to defeat a Republican incumbent in November’s midterm elections, says her husband’s work and the companies that employed him are irrelevant to her campaign.

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