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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A great moment!
That is why ol Schifty is a senator because he sucked at being a prosecutor.
He’s a representative
He’s a representative
THINKS he is a Senator....
Oh, I see where I erred. Bwhahahaha
Kentucky Law School 1, Harvard Law School 0
Schiff, Pelosi and Nadler have all shown that the Democrat ranks are filled with amoral, despicable characters. Were I a Democrat, I would be utterly ashamed and embarrassed. As a conservative Christian, I am filled with righteous anger for their dishonesty and treachery.
Schiff's weaving of faulty facts, retrying his view of this POTUS's way of governering, is confusing to say the least and Justice Roberts lets Schiff blather on.
No he is not, he is a liar and a cheat AND a former prosecutor. Look it up
That sounds pretty representative of the Dem leadership, to me!
I think we’ve all run out of words to describe Schiff.
He doesn't get any more time....it just seems like it when ever he's talking.
I think Sedition is a word we should be throwing around right about now.
You don’t understand....It’s a parody. LOL
Whenever Schiff speaks, something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.
There’s a lot of Satanic crap being shoveled in our nation’s Capitol these days.
I hope they give him the short drop, and I hope it takes awhile.
Is there anybody here in this country who believes Adam Schiff when he says he does not know who the whistleblower is?
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