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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or all that money Ford got on her go fund me run?
The guy looks like he’s controlled by demons
its the democrats.. they are demons.
I think they are trying to say PDJT is the one trying to bribe someone..
I think they are full of Sciff but thats is their plan.
So this is one of the times that the demonratcommiescumbagthugs are going to pay any attention to THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ???
The democrat pathetic desperation stinks like a fresh pile of Bull Shit, because it is.
I would never, ever call for violence, but as an observation, if Schiff were to be whipped almost to death, then tarred and feathered the rest of the way, I would not be sad. Likewise about 95% of the “news media” whose willful intellectual bankruptcy allows this farce to continue.
Come on clown. Stop talking and impeach him. Schiff, you are a waste. Let’s stop all this bullshit talk ad get to impeachment. We have listened for 3 years about impeachment. Let’s have it over.
And You should be hanging from a rope
Whatever nothingburger shif serves up there will be dem senators voting to remove, along with 2-3 repubs.
i see
well, they would have to produce some evidence...
so far they have shown us Zero evidence of any wrongdoing
BTTT
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