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Schiff: Trump could be impeached for bribery
The Hill ^ | 11 12 2019 | Zack Budryk

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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KEYWORDS: coup; impeachment; schiff; shampeachment; trump
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To: yesthatjallen
President Trump is holding his cards close to his vest because he knows he is holding the Trump card; The Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaty passed in 1998 when Biden was a Senator and signed into law by B.J. Clinton which requires the President to root out corruption before giving financial aid to Ukraine.

In other words, demonicRATS want to impeach President Trump for OBEYING the law.

Treaty With Ukraine On Mutual Legal Assistance In Criminal Matters September 29, 2019 Jonathan DuHamel

21 posted on 11/12/2019 4:22:19 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Bonemaker

not could

Schiff should be executed for treason


22 posted on 11/12/2019 4:24:00 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: yesthatjallen
Adam 💩 could be the queen of England butt,nah.
23 posted on 11/12/2019 4:24:04 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey Adam you can be tried, convicted and executed for treason!


24 posted on 11/12/2019 4:24:32 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: yesthatjallen

Could be?
Okay, lets’s play that game.

Shiffty COULD be shot for treason too.

Maybe he would take one for they team?

They could blame Trump!

That would be the way of the Left.

Obammy and Clintoon would approve.


25 posted on 11/12/2019 4:25:08 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If Shiffty would take one for the team, he would be the Lefts great saviour!


26 posted on 11/12/2019 4:27:27 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: bert

+10000


27 posted on 11/12/2019 4:28:55 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: yesthatjallen

This guy is bat schiff crazy! (His last name doesn’t deserve to be capitalized)


28 posted on 11/12/2019 4:29:06 PM PST by mikeandike
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To: GreyFriar

“””Soon Schift will accuse him of jaywalking as an impeachable offense.””””””

I heard a tidbit from a reliable source today. One of the witnesses is a former employee of Blockbuster. He will testify that in 1983 Trump rented Smokey and the Bandit and turned it in without rewinding.


29 posted on 11/12/2019 4:29:20 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: yesthatjallen

Something is wrong with this nutcase.


30 posted on 11/12/2019 4:29:30 PM PST by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: kiryandil
Exopthalmic goiter.


31 posted on 11/12/2019 4:29:32 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: yesthatjallen

” He suggested a foreign company should investigate a very suspicious Democrat!”


32 posted on 11/12/2019 4:30:22 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: yesthatjallen; All

After Trump retires, I hope Trump sues this little bug-eyed bastard.


33 posted on 11/12/2019 4:32:36 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: mrsmith

country, not company.
Sheesh...


34 posted on 11/12/2019 4:33:45 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Shady

Not to be a wiseass, but if President Trump cannot prevail in the end over this pencil-neck geek, he’s not the man I think he is. Ask yourself:

Have I ever seen President Trump look worried or nervous or unsure about Schiff?

and

Have I ever seen Shiffhead look worried or nervous or unsure about what he’s doing?


35 posted on 11/12/2019 4:34:25 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: shelterguy

Failing to rewind a vhs tape from Blockbuster is DEFINITELY an impeachable offense. Thanks to your friend for this GREAT discovery.


36 posted on 11/12/2019 4:34:51 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: yesthatjallen
It's the 'new' talking point and apparently they (DNC) have sent a notice to their brain-dead constituents because last nite on FB, there was an article entitled: 'Graham: Impeachment 'dead on arrival' in Senate if House bars 'whistleblower' testimony' which was posted by the Washington Times. I responded with: It should be DOA period.

Well I got blowback from some female and she said: " You don't care if your president commits bribery, but the rest of us do." I thought it odd that she would use the word 'bribery' but it makes perfect sense now. The mind-numbed robots have been given their marching orders.

37 posted on 11/12/2019 4:35:41 PM PST by LibertyWoman
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To: Bonemaker
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38 posted on 11/12/2019 4:36:07 PM PST by Fungi
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To: yesthatjallen
Bribery, like the hundred thousand dollars the ‘whistle-blower’ got on the go fund me site?
39 posted on 11/12/2019 4:36:12 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: bert

“....Schiff should be executed for treason...”
Exactly. That’s what needs to happen to this bug-eyed, communist POS. Enough is enough. Just call in the Marines and finish this communist crap off...once and for all.


40 posted on 11/12/2019 4:37:41 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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