It’s a weak centerpiece.
No, Byron, the dems are showing THEIR consciousness of guilt. They know their side can not withstand sunlight on this matter.
I'm pretty sure Byron York hasn't read the transcript either.
I wonder if Byron York has read the Steele Dossier?
The Steele Dossier is the work of a sociopath. It's packed with lies about the actions and motivations of Trump and his associates.
Alinsky brand transference of criminal wrongdoing onto one's rivals. It's the tired textbook example.
Another sneaky reference to Watergate. I'm not sure what effect that has, as I wonder how many people are old enough to remember Watergate.
Why don't Repubs do what the Dems did during the Clinton impeachment? Talk about how "we need to stop this partisan charade and get back to doing the work of the people. They demand it, they deserve it!"
IIRC, York is a #NeverTrumper.
Silly is as silly does. York, a NeverTrumper, is engaging in wishful thinking.
If the GOP does not fervently support Trump, it’s the end of the party. They will be relegated to minority status and get the smaller half of the corrupt benefits they all seek.
Why are the Democrats so dead set against investigating corruption?
Trump has a legal obligation CREATED BY CONGRESSS to certify that Ukraine is making serious efforts to halt corruption before it receives US aid. Is Trump’s crime that he thought they meant it?
I’m all for just getting on with it.
Go ahead, Nancy, have your phony impeachment, vote it in and send it to the Senate.
The Senate can say not guilty and we can get on with the 2020 election.
My prayer is your party loses enough House seats to take you gavel away from you AGAIN.
It seems every time you get in charge you blow it on stupid crap everyday Americans do not want.
You’re politically stone deaf.
The Hobbs Act, named after Congressman Sam Hobbs (D-AL) and codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1946 that provides:
(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires to do so, commits, or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Section 1951 also proscribes conspiracy to commit robbery or extortion without reference to the conspiracy statute at 18 U.S.C. § 371. Although the Hobbs Act was enacted as a statute to combat racketeering in labor-management disputes, the statute is frequently used in connection with cases involving public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption directed at members of labor unions.
The Hobbs Act criminalizes both robbery and extortion, where:
"robbery" means the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, and
"extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. Contents