Posted on 01/23/2020 10:31:59 AM PST by lowbridge
The abuse consists of his efforts to extract a personal political "favor" from the president of Ukraine as a precondition to the delivery of $391 million in military aid. The favor he wanted was an announcement of a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter.
The Government Accountability Office -- a nonpartisan entity in the federal government that monitors how the feds spend tax revenue -- has concluded that Trump's request for a favor was a violation of law because only Congress can impose conditions on government expenditures. So, when the president did that, he usurped Congress' role and acted unlawfully.
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Federal election laws proscribe as criminal the mere solicitation of help for a political campaign from a foreign national or government. There is no dispute that Trump did this. In fact, the case for this is stronger now than it was when the House impeached him last year. Since then, more evidence, which Trump tried to suppress, has come to light.
That evidence consists of administration officials' emails that were obtained by the media pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. Those emails demonstrate conclusively that Trump ordered a halt on the release of the $391 million within minutes of his favor request, and the aid sat undistributed until congressional pressure became too much for Trump to bear.
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When the House Select Committee on Intelligence sought the emails unearthed by the press and then sought testimony from their authors, Trump thumbed his nose at the House. Instead of complying with House subpoenas or challenging them in court, Trump's folks threw them in a drawer. Earlier this week, his lawyers argued that those actions were lawful
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A credible accusation, not a made up hysterical accusation based on strained reasoning
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yup
This little peckerhead is pretty impressed with himself, ain’t he? He’s as good at making up “facts” as Schiffhead!
“The United States signed an anti-corruption treaty with Ukraine in 1998, according [to the US Constitution] Article VI, Clause 2 ‘all treaties...which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.’ This treaty authorizes the president to look into corruption issues in Ukraine and compels Ukraine to cooperate in those corruption investigations.” source: www.afa.net
Napolitano shows how weak his position is by lying about what the GAO actually said in their memo. The GAO said nothing about "Trump's request for a favor" in their memo.
It is sad to see someone turn themselves into a clown in public.
Nappy is a homo who hates Trump. Nappy is claiming Trump should be impeached for not kissing the democraps ass.
Ha! Now you’re ready to scream at the sky!
“A credible accusation”
NO! HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS.
President Trump committed NO CRIME. NONE!
He committed no impeachable offence.
The Democrats are impeaching a HAM SANDWICH!
And to think at one time I respected this man.
A high crime or misdemeanor, numbskull.
I’m a YUGE Trump supporter, but I can honestly say that this impeachment is a total FARCE!
No crime, no NOTHING!
Even IF the Democrats claims were true, which they most certainly are NOT, there is NOTHING impeachable about it!
Their non crime accusations, even if true, do NOT rise to the level for impeachment.
ALL Democrats that vote/voted to impeach President Trump should be voted out of office at a minimum.
What absolute HATE this guy must have for Trump.
His diatribe is chock full of LIES!
President Trump did NO SUCH THING.
minor Judge Nap, ESAD
When I say, “a credible accusation”, that’s exactly what I mean: a real “high crime or misdemeanor”, not a convoluted joke.
We all know that not only did he do nothing wrong, he was keeping the ball rolling on a serious corruption investigation, which is what he’s supposed to do.
We all know that not only did he do nothing wrong, he was keeping the ball rolling on a serious corruption investigation, which is what he’s supposed to do.
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Which is why the Biden testimony would be relevant.
“Which is why the Biden testimony would be relevant”
Nothing would be more fun then watching that twit squirm.
“Federal election laws”
Bwahahahaha
People violate federal election laws daily, just ask Rshida Tlab, AOC, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Ilhan Omar, Barack Obama etc, etc.
Even from NPR:
Did the president’s requests violate campaign finance law?
Excerpt:
“The Department of Justice doesn’t think so. DOJ officials and career prosecutors in the department’s public integrity section examined the text of the July 25 phone call and concluded there was not a potential campaign finance violation, according to senior Justice Department officials. The facts did not provide a basis for a predicated investigation, they said.”
Judge Nap used to have something to say. But now, he’s gone the way of his criminal cousin. Neither are worth my time.
“What color is Napalitano’s hair these days?”
Very close to the color of my cat. And, he’s also fat and lazy.
I think the Fox make up crew is having fun with make up and hair color, lately.
Yesterday, Naphead’s hair looked like someone took a spray can of hair dye and sprayed circles of black on his gray hair.
It WAS very cat-like :)
There must be pictures featuring the judge. Otherwise he has lost his mind.
Fire this drooling faggot buffoon please.
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