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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Yeah, but the media’s “Big Lie” is that “Biden didn’t do nuffin’”.
Everything, EVERYTHING!, has to support that narrative. The very concept cannot be raised.
Somehow they’ll keep it up.
Eventually if the RINO party is not as corrupt as I suspect, I think “A damn Schitt” (perfect name for him) will be run out of office once this coup #2 crumbles as well.
The guy looks like he’s controlled by demons
Some thing as “lobbying”. Of which every single one of them is guilty.
Hypocrites.
Schiff should be hanged for treason.
It is in the nation’s interest to prosecute the Democrats.
of all the people on earth I think I could possibly bribe,
billionaire PDJT ain’t one of em
not by a longshot
either these commies produce some evidence or they should just be told to STFU
Schiff is taking some serious drugs.
Maybe he slipped some to Ann Coulter today.
Just charge him with abuse of power based on the fact that he wants two scoops of ice cream with dessert.
Shut up, Adam, you POS lying faggot.
You have the progression down correctly.......
Yeah. Someone offered him a cup of coffee, and he accepted it.
ML/NJ
Bribery for what? his own personal gain? Or, was he seeking a deal for the benefit of the USA?
They got nothin!
PROVE IT! This is laughable as Trump didn’t extort Ukraine for any illegal consideration.
Bribery as a crime exists only in the Democrats’ minds.
Sheer panic. They know what’s coming and they’re desperate to try and head it off.
Someone please make this Azzhat disappear
This crap is really getting tiring
Shifty is still mad Trump cancelled the flight to Europe and made him ride around the Capitol on a bus. That was priceless.
Biden did all 3.
This morning, it was ‘extortion.’
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