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Where Are the 'High Crimes'?
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2019 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 11/05/2019 4:31:22 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/05/2019 4:31:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“”””Which of these did Trump commit? “””””””

He is a Republican and he beat Hillary.

Off with his head.


2 posted on 11/05/2019 4:39:53 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Yeah how dare he.


3 posted on 11/05/2019 4:44:56 AM PST by Kaslin
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You can bet IF there were such crimes, the Trump-hating media would be all over it.

We’d be barraged with every detail they could dig up.

Significantly, not a peep from Woodward and Bernstein.


4 posted on 11/05/2019 4:54:53 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

The Dims are too stupid to see what they are doing to themselves. If a trial reaches the Senate, every bit of their dirty laundry corruption will be brought up on national TV, on every enemedia broadcast station, with the maximum viewers. The Dims will not be able to stop it.


5 posted on 11/05/2019 4:57:33 AM PST by Savage Rider
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Schiff's handling of the impeachment prologue suggests he's being instructed
from the "How to Have a Trial in a Banana Republic Manual."

Schiff's reading into the Congressional Record, his version of the Trump/Ukraine telephone call,
which Schiff called a "parody" is reminiscent of banana republic courts.

In Woody Allen's "Banana's" movie classic, the courtroom scene has Mellish (Allen) defending himself from a series
of incriminating witnesses, including a reigning Miss America and a middle-aged Afro-American woman claiming to be
J. Edgar Hoover in disguise.

One of the witnesses does provide testimony favorable to Mellish, but when asked to read back the testimony,
the court clerk, replies with an entirely different, wholly unfavorable rendition.

6 posted on 11/05/2019 5:03:52 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Pat B. is, once again, FOS!

The aid from the US did not involve Javelin missiles. The Ukraine was buying the missiles and Z said they wanted to buy more. Trump said “OK”.

Z didn’t even know then that some monetary aid was being delayed until later. ....The balance of the monetary aid was paid, even though Z did not order investigation of his country’s role in the 2016 election mess.


7 posted on 11/05/2019 5:29:22 AM PST by octex
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Isn’t winning the election without going through the proper channels of bribery, graft, corruption, back room deals,... enough of a reason to Impeach??


8 posted on 11/05/2019 5:33:33 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: shelterguy

Two scoops of ice cream.


9 posted on 11/05/2019 5:52:28 AM PST by Vehmgericht
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And who does the Constitution charge with making the decisions as to whether military aid goes to Ukraine? The president, or some NSC staffer who sits on the Ukraine desk?

Or shifty Schiff a partisan liar?

10 posted on 11/05/2019 5:54:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


11 posted on 11/05/2019 6:00:15 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Liz
You can bet IF there were such crimes, the Trump-hating media would be all over it.

Where is just one Article of Impeachment?

12 posted on 11/05/2019 6:03:44 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Kaslin

I don’t accept the Democrat kangaroo court. I am this close to withdrawing my consent to be governed.


13 posted on 11/05/2019 6:23:39 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Savage Rider

Yep. Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.


14 posted on 11/05/2019 6:23:43 AM PST by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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The original amount of the approved aid was $250 mil. Another $150 mil was added to it. But I don't know the time sequence.

What I do remember was that Bolton played some kind of role in confirming that the use of the money would be as Ukraine promised.

So we need to look at when the money was first approved and when the additional money was approved, when the Ukraine election occurred, when Zelensky actually took office.

In other words, Schitt is jumping over dots he doesn't like...to create his false narrative.

He did the same thing with the Russian Collusion. Remember, he had "absolute oroff" of collusion the moment Mueller said "I do".

15 posted on 11/05/2019 6:44:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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That would be “absolute proof”......


16 posted on 11/05/2019 6:47:43 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: FormerFRLurker; Savage Rider

Which makes me think the opposite that the smart ones (few and far between, I know) want only to keep playing this out without ever getting to the Senate so the President has to keep holding those cards just in case rather than playing them.


17 posted on 11/05/2019 7:15:25 AM PST by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but separation of media and state.)
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“The meaning of “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was, so to speak, its own distinct thing.”

Oh, ya mean like “natural born citizen?

YES! EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

“The meaning of “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was, so to speak, its own distinct thing. It was not a combination of “crimes” and “misdemeanors” as understood in today’s criminal-law sense. It was instead a unique legal term with its own meaning. The framers of the Constitution understood and used the phrase in that specialized sense, consciously adopting a known English-practice term of art in preference to other proposed formulations of the impeachment standard. And the ratification debates uniformly reflect that same broad understanding.”

https://www.lawliberty.org/2018/08/08/the-original-meaning-of-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-part-1/


18 posted on 11/05/2019 7:54:34 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Where are the Misdemeanors?

Where is the proverbial J-Walking ticket?

“...................................................”

Nada!


19 posted on 11/05/2019 8:33:03 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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Dems/Schiffs gameplan

1. produce their version of the testimony and link it to Trump needs to go
2. dems vote to impeach him to get it on the record they followed through
3. complain when it doesn’t remove him from office in senate
4. emphasize they need to hold house/gain senate to remove him in 2020 when he gets relected

This is their cake and eat it too strategy.

They don’t care about anything else and know they have taken a dangerous path, but to them its all about self preservation and nothing to do with whats best for the country...


20 posted on 11/05/2019 8:36:58 AM PST by patriotspride
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