Posted on 11/12/2019 4:09:05 PM PST by yesthatjallen
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) suggested President Trump’s possible impeachable offenses include bribery in an interview set to air Wednesday with NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
"On the basis of what the witnesses have had to say so far, there are any number of potentially impeachable offenses, including bribery, including high crimes and misdemeanors,” Schiff said in the interview. “The basic allegations against the president are that he sought foreign interference in a U.S. election, that he conditioned official acts on the performance of these political favors.”
In the interview, Schiff said “bribery,” one of the offenses the Constitution outlines as impeachable, had a different meaning at the time the Constitution was written then how it is commonly understood today.
“It was much broader. It connoted the breach of the public trust in a way where you're offering official acts for some personal or political reason, not in the nation's interest,” Schiff said. “Here you have the president of the United States seeking help from Ukraine in his reelection campaign in the form of two investigations that he thought were politically advantageous, including one of his primary rival.”
“It doesn't have to be cash. It can be something of value,” Schiff added, saying that conditioning foreign aid on political favors could be considered bribery even in the modern context.
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Then extortion.
Now bribery.
Schiff. One can’t call him the liar he is often enough, but to what avail?
He is a very sick man. My money is on President Trump. He fights back against these peahens.
Um, I thought it was:
*Collusion
*Obstruction
*Quid Pro Quo
*Obstruction
Now we’re on to bribery?
What an f-ing joke!
LOL next its gonna be “He picked his nose I saw him do it”
could
Did Schiff sit in Inskeep’s lap or vice versa?
How I loathe this scumsucking crooked bastige.
Every statement out of this loons mouth is going to come back to bite him when the investigation into the 2016 election sees the light of day.
No. For secretly watching NFL SNF!
But .. Schiff couldn't help himself at one point and basically said the Republicans are part of Trump's cult.
Now just maybe you had a few Republican fools leaning to your side, but that's not gonna help your cause.
It was a boring interview.
It could be for practicing President as a Republican...
We need to overthrow congress - this isn’t government - this is bad comedy
They’re throwing the plate of pasta at the wall hoping a noodle sticks.
FUAS!
“Schiff: Trump could be impeached for bribery”
Trump: Schiff could be executed for treason.
Or the Communists in Congress could impeach him for winning the election three years ago. Schiff for brains should be arrested for harassing the President.
Hey Schiff for brains, what were you doing at Buck’s house all those times you were there?
Rumor has it you were injecting homeless men and then having sex with them. Prove you didn’t.
Soon Schift will accuse him of jaywalking as an impeachable offense. H’mmm, can Schift find a statute to charge the president with illegally eating a peach, thus making it impeached for a peach.
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