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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Democrats themselves decide to take her out.
The Democrats will take her out. She got in because no one was paying attention. Well they are now.
Oxymoron.
Sorry, I don’t buy that for one minute... Crowley was still on the ballot in the general as a third party candidate... he could have run and wiped the floor with AOC, he didn’t run... Meaning the Party set this up and gave him a nice payoff to sit by and let her take the seat.. I don’t think she skated in because he wasn’t paying attention... I think it was set up the entire time.
Certainly was a pay off after she had the nomination, if not long before.
“I think it’s always been emoluments,” Ocasio-Cortez told the podcast. “It’s always been about that for me.”
riiiiiighhht. almost guaranteed she just learned the shiny new word “emoluments” in the last day or so ... one way to tell is the fact that she used it about a dozen times in the interview ....
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