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Judiciary Committee impeachment report alleges Trump committed 'multiple federal crimes' (bribery, wire fraud)
Politico ^ | 12/16/19 | KYLE CHENEY, ANDREW DESIDERIO

Posted on 12/16/2019 2:34:56 PM PST by Libloather

President Donald Trump committed criminal bribery and wire fraud, the House Judiciary Committee alleges in a report that will accompany articles of impeachment this week.

The report, a 169-page assessment of the case for Trump’s removal from office, contends that Trump committed “multiple federal crimes” — ones that Democrats addressed under the broad umbrella of “abuse of power,” the first article of impeachment against the president.

“Although President Trump’s actions need not rise to the level of a criminal violation to justify impeachment, his conduct here was criminal,” the panel’s Democrats argue, labeling Trump’s behavior “both constitutional and criminal in character” and contending that the president “betrayed the people of this nation” and should be removed from office.

The staff report, which was filed to the House Rules Committee just after midnight Monday, argues that Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election, the allegation that forms the core of the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — approved by the Judiciary Committee last week. Democrats emphasized that proving a criminal violation is not required to justify impeachment.

“The Framers were not fools. They authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes,” the report states.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; andrewdesiderio; bribery; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fakeimpeachment; fakenews; impeach; kylecheney; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; politico; pollutico; presstitutes; report; smearmachine; trump
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To: for-q-clinton

Might as well just throw in sexual assault and rape too.

Why stop there. If they’re going to make it up anyway, why not insert the sexual assault and rape of small animals.


41 posted on 12/16/2019 3:03:16 PM PST by excalibur21
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To: Libloather

“The Framers were not fools. They authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes,” the report states.

Well then stop taking them for such. Winning an election is not grounds and was never intended to be so.


42 posted on 12/16/2019 3:05:05 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: PGR88

WELL if there was bribery, wire fraud etc. WHY IN THE HELL are they not the articles of impeachment WHY??? These BASTARDS just want these LIES out there for the MSM to report repeatedly and carry their LYING WATER!!!


43 posted on 12/16/2019 3:06:54 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Libloather

This is serious. Perhaps they need to keep working 24/7 straight through the New Year.


44 posted on 12/16/2019 3:09:07 PM PST by bgill
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To: for-q-clinton

Re the article it was in the transcript of the July call as well as in a following call the next day.

“The committee also alleges that Trump violated the honest services wire fraud statute during the July 25 phone call, as well as during a separate phone call a day later with Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Those “foreign wire communications” were done “in furtherance of an ongoing bribery scheme,” according to the report.”

And that is dog vomit.


45 posted on 12/16/2019 3:09:13 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: bgill

The Democrats new party motto:

Fake It til you Make It


46 posted on 12/16/2019 3:11:24 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Libloather

Louts and liars.


47 posted on 12/16/2019 3:11:51 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Libloather

what a f***ing farce.
they openly charge him (zero proof, of course) with crimes...
saying those alleged felonies do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses

while they impeach him on charges which wouldn’t be crimes even if they proved them (which they, of course, haven’t)

this is such a bad circus that everyone would demand their admission $$ back!


48 posted on 12/16/2019 3:13:24 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

2. Not asking Mother May I. And worse yet, stepping on sidewalk cracks. KNOWINGLY..


49 posted on 12/16/2019 3:17:03 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Libloather

Then why didn’t they put it in the articles?


50 posted on 12/16/2019 3:19:36 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Regulator

If they go full on banana republic, it will be very violent.


51 posted on 12/16/2019 3:20:37 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Libloather

Now the Dims pretend that something that is not a crime is still “criminal”, because they say it is, even though they cannot prove the original claim - on which all their other claims depend, was true, was anything more than their own interpretation of events, a factually unproven interpretation.

The Dims effort should make history as the worst constructed effort at a coup masquerading as “impeachment”.


52 posted on 12/16/2019 3:23:51 PM PST by Wuli
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To: lastchance

Thanks... I didn’t want the headache of going through all that vomit. I appreciate you posting the excerpt for me.


53 posted on 12/16/2019 3:25:52 PM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: Magnum44

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.


54 posted on 12/16/2019 3:27:03 PM PST by Rocky
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To: Libloather

At the time this supposedly occurred, I do not believe Biden was even a candidate.


55 posted on 12/16/2019 3:29:31 PM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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To: Libloather
I have one comment for the Democrats: payback is going to be a b*tch.
 
56 posted on 12/16/2019 3:31:01 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Libloather

The democrats say “...They authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes,”

...and the Constitution says, “...Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

So who to believe; the dems or the lying Constitution?


57 posted on 12/16/2019 3:32:50 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Libloather

If this crap gets to the Senate they must put a hold on everything until they figure out what the Hell is going on


58 posted on 12/16/2019 3:38:36 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

These so called reports should be captioned as “ Democrat controlled House Committee” charge bla bla bla et cetera et cetera

If a poll was ever conducted with the question “Is our two party system working” ? Would the response would be 90% negative. What is being employed by This so called coup d’ etat against Trump should not be viewed as against Trump but an impeachment of our constitution. .Aided by key media venues which creates a distorted international and national evaluation when it comes to dealing with the US Everything the man has attempted to get done has been blocked by a radical group composed mainly of members of the democrat party in top leadership legislative and judicial branches of government who view the constitution as an obstacle to their concepts of government intrusion on individual liberty guaranteed by it as they advance their policies..


59 posted on 12/16/2019 3:49:58 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Libloather

Some of the most heinous crimes were discovered in Hillary’s lost emails that were found on Weiner’s laptop.


60 posted on 12/16/2019 3:53:20 PM PST by JayElBee (Time to rethink the Great Society)
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