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Posted on 10/02/2019 8:58:51 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Gregg Jarrett: Trump did NOT commit an impeachable offense on call with Ukraine’s president – Here’s why
In their delusive demands for the impeachment of President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are substituting partisan politics for the commands and intent of the U.S. Constitution. This became self-evident when Pelosi announced her impeachment folly the day before she even set eyes on the alleged evidence, which turned out to be no evidence at all.
The usual gaggle of misanthropes like Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Jerrold Nadler of New York have been searching for a reason – any reason – to impeach Trump ever since his improbable election in November 2016.
With a shove from the chronically vapid Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Pelosi and her confederates have now settled on the most implausible of all their impeachment schemes peddled during Trump’s presidency – that his conversation with Ukraine’s president somehow constitutes an impeachable offense. It does not. Not even close.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution defines the basis for impeachment as an act of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Anything less than that is not an impeachable offense. Were it otherwise, those who authored that esteemed document would have so stated.
Sadly, then-Republican Rep. Gerald Ford, as House minority leader in 1970, forever mangled the impeachment provision when he mistakenly observed: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
This was precisely what our framers did not intend. This is what they feared. They did not want a sitting president to be removed because a capricious Congress controlled by an opposing party disliked a chief executive or disagreed with his policies.
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What we need are transcripts (and original audio) of calls made by the previous President of the U.S.’s calls with leaders of foreign governments.
We can start to form our opinions after we’ve had a chance to contrast and compare them with President Trump’s calls.
We need to just start going after the MFers who are doing this to us, our president and our nation. These MFers need to start paying the price....NOW.
Tired of this SHIT.
That's what happens when a man goes to congress on a football scholarship.
Gregg Jarrett is a smart cookie- ut unfortunately, what he says doesn’t matter- the ‘New Truth’ (as dictated by the left) is that Trump is guilty of betraying the country- or some such nonsense- The left lie, and hte msm back them up 100% so that the masses don’t know what the real truth is anymore-
Law & Facts are irrelevant to the CPUSA/DNC communists and their agenda to overthrow our Constitutional Republic.
That’s a good point, it’s a shame he didn’t just keep his mouth shut.
You’re correct on that, though I admire Gregg Jarrett for putting the truth out.
Thanks jazusamo.
Why has it occurred to seemingly no one that asking for an investigation of an opponent could help the opponent? If the investigation concludes nothing happened and the opponent did great things, then why is this a problem?
The opponent may come out of that investigation looking far better. Not far worse. Asking for an investigation is a 50/50 thing.
Why can POS John Brennan travel overseas under false passport, yet we have to present a valid passport? Can Brennan transfer >$10k without a treasury trigger?
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I wish I knew but I do think Brennan’s mailing address should be cell block #1 at a federal max prison.
MSNBC reports that President Trump committed an Impeachable Offense by asking 5 eyes intelligence partners:
“Why did you spy on me?”
He should explain that to Nap.
Instead of demeaning Ford, how about noticing that his point is exactly true.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors are defined by the House, just as Ford said. The constitution give them the power to impeach because they don’t like his hair if they want to.
Ditto
BTTT!
Perhaps it should be “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the Independents considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
The most recent Quinnipiac poll shows that Independents do NOT support impeachment.
4. Do you think that President Trump should be impeached and removed from office, or don't you think so?
| Dem % | Ind % | Rep % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes / Impeached | 90 | 42 | 7 |
| No | 5 | 50 | 92 |
13. If think Trump should not be impeached and removed, do you feel that way mainly because you don't think it's been shown that he did anything serious enough to impeach him, or mainly because impeaching him would be too disruptive to our nation?
| Dem % | Ind % | Rep % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not Serious Enough | 58 | 73 | |
| Too Disruptive | 16 | 6 |
NOTE: Independents do not support impeachment because they don't think the charges rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
11. As you may know, the House of Representatives has begun a formal impeachment inquiry to determine whether or not to bring impeachment charges against President Trump. Do you approve or disapprove of this impeachment inquiry?
| Dem % | Ind % | Rep % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approve | 95 | 50 | 8 |
| Disapprove | 4 | 45 | 91 |
NOTE: Despite not supporting impeachment, Independents do narrowly support the impeachment inquiry.
12. Do you think members of Congress who support impeaching President Trump are doing so more on the basis of the facts of the case, or more on the basis of partisan politics?
| Dem % | Ind % | Rep % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facts | 67 | 37 | 4 |
| Partisan Politics | 25 | 55 | 91 |
NOTE: Independents in this poll believe that partisan politics is behind impeachment (by +18), but narrowly support it anyway (by +5).
-PJ
Interesting info, thanks.
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