Posted on 12/16/2019 3:49:32 PM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on Thursday President Trump could still be prosecuted at a later date for possible "multiple crimes" that he has committed.
"The Republicans seem to be suggesting that there needs to be a statutory crime and prosecution before there’s a constitutional crime and impeachment. And of course, that is not at all the intent of the Framers and that’s not what’s happened before. Bill Clinton had not been prosecuted before. Richard Nixon hadn’t been prosecuted before," Raskin told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"The Constitution in Article II talks about treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors, and both sides have always understood that abuse of power is an offense against the Constitution, as well as obstruction of Congress," he continued.
Blitzer said Republicans had impeached former President Bill Clinton for lying under oath to a federal grand jury. Blitzer then Raskin asked if believed Trump had not actually committed a crime.
"Well, no, there was, perhaps multiple crimes committed by this president," Raskin replied. "Bill Clinton had not been prosecuted or indicted for perjury. They just pled the elements of perjury in the article of impeachment. We’ve pled within our impeachment and in the accompanying report lots of factual evidence that could lead to prosecution of the president later."
The House Judiciary Committee passed the two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, along party lines last week. The full House is expected to vote on the articles on Wednesday.
I really want them to push this hard into 2020. The public will take the power away from the Dems.
Just making it up as they go.
The left liberal crazy democrats and media are making me so angry I am just sick at what they are doing .... here we have a President doing more than any other President and has done no wrongs.. and they all are going through this as if it’s a ballgame and who will win.
Where is our country? This is unreal... this can’t be happening in the United States ... this the only nation left... if we go... the world goes! No one cares .. the TV is running this over and over..
TRUMP HAS DONE NOTHING BUT GOOD AND HE’S THE REAL PERSON TRYING TO HELP...
My God... the people have lost their minds!! talk talk talk... who will win the ballgame on Wednesday... while Pres Trump has to go to bed and get up with the dumb world after him.
Graham wants to shut it down... they have made up charges that never happened.. they have convinced themselves Trump has done something... Graham wants to shut it down..
SHUT IT DOWN... SHUT IT DOWN!!! Don’t give the dems any more time nor room to do this!!!
It HURTS that one of the funniest shows i’ve ever seen is so left and anti Christian.
It occasionally takes shots at the left, atheism and islam but not NEARLY as much.
Still I confess to having watched it and LOL a lot.
Terrific, they’ve figured out that anyone can be prosecuted for anything. What a revelation.
Meaningless without a conviction.
Pled what? Nothing impeachable has been pled yet. The only thing they have at this point is speculation and opinions. Give me some hard evidence of anything for the impeachment and crimes in the future. So far all you have is no talk or facts, just the story of a whistle blower that heard nothing provable.
rwood
and maybe the Dems could be prosecuted for Insurrection
PS, for everyone who needs to know:
Smirkin’ Jamie “is the son of progressive activist Marcus Raskin—a former staff aide to President John F. Kennedy”
Grandaddy was just another immigrant Russian Bolshevik
IOW Raskin is the standard Red Diaper Baby
Listening to this propagandist bloviate about the Founders is a joke, he thinks they’re racist goyim
Only useful to him when he wants to fabricate even more strained legal theories
Hey here’s an idea, how about Dems just shoot him now, we all know they want to..how about impeach Trump for breathing..or how about impeaching him for being born..sound like a plan Dems..Good God..God forbid if these insane whackos get control of the Senate and Presidency again, you all think it was a nightmare under Obama..you will all be begging for Obama compared to what you will get with the New Communist Party
They will be screaming crap like that even as the tribunal sentences are carried out.
Raskin never should have cut that mangy mop of greasy hair. It just exposes the ugly underneath.
Not based on the evidence provided so far.
OTOH, it's likely that anyone who tried that **** had better have their final affairs in order.
Looks like we may get a shooting war after all...
The Democrats seem to have a “strange new respect” for the Constitution. Given their opposition to the electoral college and Bill of Rights, it seems they only read or respect their misreading of the impeachment bit. Of course they also find new “rights” never intended by the founders of this nation.
ha ha!
what a shame the House of Reps has gone bonkers
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