Posted on 01/30/2020 3:01:11 PM PST by Libloather
House Intelligence Committee chair turned House impeachment manager Adam Schiff tried to pull a fast one Wednesday by accusing President Donald Trump of “bribery” and “extortion.”
“[W]e think there is a crime here of bribery or extortion, conditioning official acts for personal favors; that is bribery, it’s also what the founders understood as extortion,” he said while trying to rebut an argument from the president’s legal team that only actual criminal acts such as bribery are impeachable offenses.
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“If this were a criminal trial in an ordinary court and Mr. Schiff had done what he just did on the floor here, and start talking about crimes of bribery and extortion that were not in the indictment, it would’ve been an automatic mistrial,” Philbin said. “We’d all be done now, and we could go home. And Mr. Schiff knows that, because he’s a former prosecutor.”
“It is not permissible for the House to come here, failing to have charged, failing to have put in the articles of impeachment any crime at all, and then to start arguing that, ‘Actually - Oh we think there is some crime involved, and actually, we think we actually proved it, even though we provided no notice we were going to try to prove that. It’s totally impermissible. It’s a fundamental violation of due process.”
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Schiff has for his part tried pushing back on the mounting criticism by arguing that “abuse of power” is a higher-level crime that encompasses “bribery” and “extortion.’
This claim has inspired its own backlash and rebuttals:
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I think every case he tried as a Federal prosecutor should be thrown out and reversed.
He's a lying POS.
The more he has to talk to support his point, the less convincing his argument. And this clown was a prosecutor. Like anyone is going to remember a fraction of it. So sad.
Videotape it.
You'd sell millions of copies...
It wouldn’t even get a mistrial. It would get dismissed with prejudice.
Limousine Bolsheviks don’t need no stinkin’ due process.
Pelosi (”If Trump is acquitted he won’t be acquitted”) and Schniff are making it clear: “We might be non compos mentis, but the Law is whatever we say it is until we say it’s something else.”
But Rand Paul can’t say Ciaramella.
Big dittoes! Chronic liars are of their father, the father of lies a murderer from the start.
Premature exclaimation, there, fella.
Schiff, along with everyone else, had to swear an oath to tell the truth and only the truth. But he doesn’t care about oaths that interfere with his lying.
Unfortunately, the House Managers did not take an oath to tell the truth at all. They and the Senators took an oath to conduct themselves in accordance with the Constitution. Since Article 1, section 6 of the Constitution gives cover to members of the Legisalture for anything they say in either the House or the Senate, there is no recourse when they lie there.
I don't know what kind of oath the defense attorneys took. They may have had to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The framers of the Constitution know that there would be some bad members of Congress but probably did not dream how the entire majority would collude in deceitful behavior.
Bribery? He’s talking about Joe Biden?
Schifty was trained and ehdorsed as a prosecutor by the DOJ.
Barr needs to formally withdraw that tacit endorsement.
Schifty was trained and ehdorsed as a prosecutor by the DOJ.
They are not the shiniest rock in the box and trustworthy, well NOT.
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