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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.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
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To: Libloather

why don’t the dems just admit it and say “we are impeaching him because he outsmarted the smartest woman in the world.”


61 posted on 12/16/2019 4:00:11 PM PST by euram
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To: for-q-clinton
"Might as well just throw in sexual assault and rape too."

And First Degree Murder. You know the Democrats would trip over themselves to get the death penalty re-instated.

62 posted on 12/16/2019 4:14:30 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Ingtar

A very worthy question: When the phone call process was beginning - when the Burisma corruption was first identified, was Biden actually a candidate and was he leading the polls? Seems so, Biden has been on top of polls for a while.


63 posted on 12/16/2019 4:38:56 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: Libloather

64 posted on 12/16/2019 4:45:08 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Libloather

I look less askance at this if the Bolshies had impeached jOkeass on the same things.


65 posted on 12/16/2019 4:56:59 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever!)
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To: Libloather

The Dems are making the US less than a banana republic. Thank God they lost in ‘16.


66 posted on 12/16/2019 4:59:00 PM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: MeganC

and taller salt/pepper shakers

and don’t forget being taller than Zelensky, sitting in a bigger chair and having his daughter duct taped in the basement...


67 posted on 12/16/2019 5:10:49 PM PST by Hypo2
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To: M Kehoe

wasn’t there a time when porn actresses blew paint out of their butts onto a canvas?


68 posted on 12/16/2019 5:12:03 PM PST by Hypo2
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To: for-q-clinton

You are welcome.


69 posted on 12/16/2019 5:23:13 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ConservativeDude

My biggest complaint is the two scoops of ice cream. Why has the House not included this?


70 posted on 12/16/2019 5:36:11 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: ConservativeDude

I’ sure murder is somewhere there also if they keep searching...I mean if you are going to lie why not go big?!


71 posted on 12/16/2019 8:45:22 PM PST by terart
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