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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: Nateman

or all that money Ford got on her go fund me run?


81 posted on 11/12/2019 6:24:12 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Rodm

The guy looks like he’s controlled by demons


its the democrats.. they are demons.


82 posted on 11/12/2019 6:24:54 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: faithhopecharity

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.


83 posted on 11/12/2019 6:25:54 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: yesthatjallen; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; SkyDancer; Lockbox; carriage_hill; tubebender; ...
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.

So this is one of the times that the demonratcommiescumbagthugs are going to pay any attention to THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ???

84 posted on 11/12/2019 6:30:12 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen

The democrat pathetic desperation stinks like a fresh pile of Bull Shit, because it is.


85 posted on 11/12/2019 6:42:58 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


86 posted on 11/12/2019 6:48:32 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


87 posted on 11/12/2019 6:50:05 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: yesthatjallen

And You should be hanging from a rope


88 posted on 11/12/2019 7:48:15 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: yesthatjallen

Whatever nothingburger shif serves up there will be dem senators voting to remove, along with 2-3 repubs.


89 posted on 11/12/2019 10:00:07 PM PST by lurk
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To: cableguymn

i see
well, they would have to produce some evidence...
so far they have shown us Zero evidence of any wrongdoing


90 posted on 11/12/2019 10:41:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: yesthatjallen

BTTT


91 posted on 11/13/2019 1:46:20 AM PST by nopardons
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