ROTFL!
Posted on 04/15/2019 7:58:57 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is on board with trying to impeach President Trump, a position at odds with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“I think you could reach in a bag and pull so many things out that are impeachable of this president. I support impeaching this president,” the freshman lawmaker told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast Sunday evening.
Ocasio-Cortez said she is likely to sign a resolution introduced last month by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that calls for Congress to launch investigations into whether Trump has committed offenses that would lead to impeachment.
“We hadn’t signed on when it was first introduced, but we probably will,” Ocasio-Cortez said of the resolution. “We’ll take a look into it.”
The New York Democrat said there are “many things” Trump has done that would constitute grounds for impeachment but she singled out violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution as the most egregious.
“I think it’s always been emoluments,” Ocasio-Cortez told the podcast. “It’s always been about that for me.”
The clause forbids federal officials from accepting payments from foreign governments without congressional approval.
A federal appeals court last month heard arguments from lawyers for Maryland and the District of Columbia that Trump is profiting from foreign officials who stay at his Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Ocasio-Cortez also said she believes Trump has committed tax fraud.
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ROTFL!
Bolshevik Barbie needs to provide a sample of what is an impeachable offense.
Making a big noise about Emoluments could deter other private successful business people from possibly getting involved in politics. Politics to be left to Politicians who were either Lawyers or Polly-Sci grads. Stay in your swim lane, this is our turf
Does anyone else on this thread take the slightest offense at having our transgenerational pal Barbie compared to this loser?
I think AOC will be out of office before President Trump is.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really thinks”
Really?
A Democrat majority in the House can impeach Donald Trump any time it wants to. High Crimes and Misdemeanors is open to any definition the House members want to put on it. If done it only hurts DJT if he were to fail at being Trump in his response. If he were to ignore it altogether except to cast occasional jokes at it, the Democrats would probably see their smallest minority status in a century after the next Election. Enough of the Social Democrat leadership is politically astute to prevent a self destructive Impeachment- well, I think so, anyway.
The only way I see an impeachment ever happening (and this is a near-impossible scenario) is for Democrats to get 2/3 majority in both Houses of Congress while POTUS goes to a Republican.
Aside from that scenario the votes would never be there. The closest we ever came was Nixon in ‘72 because the mainstream media managed to drive his support amongst REPUBLICANS down to 29%. They just don’t have the power to do that anymore.
In the reverse scenario (2/3 Republican majorities and Democrat POTUS) those Congressional Pubbies can surely be counted on to wimp out.
Impeachment is HARD by design... It isn’t there to be used as a political ploy, and generally the party that tries to use it as such gets PUNISHED majorly for it...
Her district votes 80%+ d no matter who is the candidate, the only way she’s going away is if the Democrats themselves decide to take her out.
Are ‘rats really this stupid? Some. Exhibits A,O,C.
I think of an older 80’s tune when AOC comes up.
Thomas Dolby’s “Airhead”. Classic!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl25PK1IFpg
She also thinks there’s a way to tear down and rebuild every building in America in 10 years. So this isn’t surprising.
She knows absolutely nothing but she thinks there is still a way to impeach Trump. This is a prime example of higher ed indoctrination
I’m trying to keep track...
She’s now an expert in:
- Constitution
- Biochemistry (farting cows)
- Farming (farting cows)
- Climate science (farting cows)
So I can see what she’s mostly an expert in farts ;p
That's rich, coming from a broad who only last week discovered (actually: was informed by someone) that "emoluments" are not a kind of skin-moisturizer.
Regards,
“I think it’s always been emoluments,”
She is wrong. It’s all ball bearings these days
What, this gal has gotten so full of herself already, that she's now referring to herself in the third party "royal we"?
".... Ocasio-Cortez also said she believes Trump has committed tax fraud...."
Without a shred of evidence, whatsoever. Just spouting whatever comes out of her pea brain and horse mouth.
Come on NY..get some sense!
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