More than 500 legal scholars agree that Trump has committed impeachable offenses

[georgephillip]

And yet still no proof. Just more emotional rambling.

The evidence is already overwhelming for anyone not afflicted with partisan blindness:

The Bad Arguments That Trump Didn’t Commit Bribery

"The evidence of President Trump’s conduct available at the time we wrote—primarily the summary transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—indicated that Trump’s conduct certainly fell within the scope of bribery for purposes of the Impeachment Clause. In particular,

"Trump solicited a bribe (help for his own campaign by opening an investigation into his political rival) in connection with his performance of official acts (releasing military aid for Ukraine and scheduling a White House meeting with President Zelensky)"

If Trump doesn't testify at his upcoming Senate trial, will you blame him?

That's not evidence. Thats hearsay from second and third hand account partisans along with a liberal groomed "whistleblower" who only met with liberals. Try as you might with your emotional goo. There is no evidence....still.

That's not evidence. Thats hearsay from second and third hand account partisans along with a liberal groomed "whistleblower" who only met with liberals. Try as you might with your emotional goo. There is no evidence....still.

Trump's own words convict him, and the fact he refuses to release any documents in his own defense makes it appear like he is the same lying con man he has been for his entire life, no?

Trump's Ukraine phone call, annotated

"The President

"The former ambassador from the United States, the woman was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, here’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me."

 

[MisterBeale]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

clearly using the powers of the presidency to dig up dirt on a political rival is an impeachable offense as it is an abuse of power.

accepting such behavior shows how crooked the Republicans are

This article that Zorro posted was great, read it.

What you are saying is that the family of elites should face no accountability for corrupt behavior. That sounds absurd in my book.

Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
". . . In the American political tradition, officeholders, candidates and their families do not get a free pass—even when they are the political opponents of the president. Indeed, we think Trump would have abdicated his duty if he refused to push for an investigation that was otherwise warranted. Failing to investigate conduct that otherwise warranted an investigation would itself create allegations of improper conduct, and rightly so. Trump cannot escape that difficult choice and political responsibility for it merely by saying: My political opponent’s son must not face any accountability because he is my rival’s son.. . ."

again, what other Americans was Trump trying to put in the crosshairs on the phone call?

It really doesn't matter.

If the Biden's are guilty of a crime. . . It was his job to root out corruption in our administrative dealing with other nations.

Once the investigation commenced, I have heard that the other Americans that were involved in this corruption were friends of the Kerry's and the Pelosi family. . . though I am not positive of the details.

A lot of folks associated with the Obama administration profited from the neo-nazi coup that was funded and supported by the State Department.

Are you really this uninformed?

RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies
RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies



The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy
The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine 'Scandal': The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy

". . . . We know from the leaked, early 2014 telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland, then assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that then Vice President Biden played a role in “midwifing” the U.S.-backed overthrow of an elected Ukrainian government soon after that conversation.

That’s the biggest crime in this story that isn’t being told. The illegal overthrow of a sovereign government.

As booty from the coup, the sitting vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, soon got a seat on the board of Ukraine’s biggest gas producer, Burisma Holdings. This can only be seen as a transparently neocolonial maneuver to take over a country and install one’s own people. But Biden’s son wasn’t the only one.


Left to right: Kerry, post-coup president Petro Poroshenko, Pyatt and Nuland, June 2014. (State Dept.)

A family friend of then Secretary of State John Kerry also joined Burisma’s board. U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto got a Ukrainian contract soon after the overthrow. And the first, post-coup Ukrainian finance minister was an American citizen, a former State Department official, who was given Ukrainian citizenship the day before she took up the post.

After a Ukrainian prosecutor began looking into possible corruption at Burisma, Biden openly admitted at a conference last year that as vice president he withheld a $1 billion credit line to Ukraine until the government fired the prosecutor. As Biden says himself, it took only six hours for it to happen.

Exactly what Biden boasted of doing is what the Democrats are now accusing Trump of doing, and it isn’t clear if Trump got what he wanted as Biden did.

Threats, Bribes and Blackmail

That leads to another major part of this story not being told: the routine way the U.S. government conducts foreign policy: with bribes, threats and blackmail.

Trump may have withheld military aid to seek a probe into Biden, but it is hypocritically being framed by Democrats as an abuse of power out of the ordinary. But it is very much ordinary.

Examples abound. The threat of withholding foreign aid was wielded against nations on the UN Security Council in 1991 when the U.S. sought authorization for the First Gulf War. Yemen had the temerity to vote against. A member of the U.S. delegation told Yemen’s ambassador: “That’s the most expensive vote you ever cast.” The U.S. then cut $70 million in foreign aid to the Middle East’s poorest nation, and Saudi Arabia repatriated about a million Yemeni workers.

The same thing happened before the Second Gulf War in 2003, as revealed by whistleblower Katharine Gun (who will appear Friday night on CN Live!). Gun leaked an NSA memo that showed the U.S. sought help from its British counterpart in signals intelligence to spy on the missions of Security Council members to get “leverage” over them to influence their vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

In 2001 the U.S. threatened the end of military and foreign aid if nations did not conclude bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court.

More recently, the U.S. used its muscle against Ecuador, including dangling a $10 billion IMF loan, in exchange for the expulsion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy.

This is how the U.S. conducts “diplomacy.”

As former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali wrote:

“Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.”

This fundamental corruption of U.S. foreign policy, which includes overthrowing elected governments, is matched only by the corruption of a political system that exalts partisan political power above all else. Exposing this deep-seated and longstanding corruption should take precedence over scoring partisan scalps, whether Biden’s or Trump’s."

It doesn’t matter...correct. The Senate isn’t interested in doing it’s duty.

If the House was interested in doing IT'S duty, all the corruption of the Ukrainian coup, and the assorted spoils that went along with it would come to light, so that the American people would know why Trump was doing what he was doing.

It would not even go to the Senate for trial.

Waste of time.

 

[Mac-7]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them.

Based on years of experience sure dont trust the washington post or 500 legal quacks that the cat dragged in

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Even your comrades have given up that dead horse!

False. It is still the conclusion of the entire intelligence community and of the special counsel's report that russia assisted trump in the 2016 election and trump welcomed the help.

I know being in your little right wing nutsack...er, bubble makes you think that nobody cares, but people outside the rightwing nutsack still care.

Russians changed how many Dem voters into Trump voters?

Many No one knows the number but enough to perhaps keep this yellowbelly pos out of our WH

Many

You weren't dumb enough to change your vote based on a Facebook meme?

Do people change their votes based upon TV ads and robocalls?

Do you?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

False. It is still the conclusion of the entire intelligence community and of the special counsel's report that russia assisted trump in the 2016 election and trump welcomed the help.

I know being in your little right wing nutsack...er, bubble makes you think that nobody cares, but people outside the rightwing nutsack still care.

Russians changed how many Dem voters into Trump voters?

Many No one knows the number but enough to perhaps keep this yellowbelly pos out of our WH

Many

You weren't dumb enough to change your vote based on a Facebook meme?

Do people change their votes based upon TV ads and robocalls?

Do you?

Nope, but in 2016 candidates spent 4.4 billion dollars on TV ads...clearly they think they have an impact. Are they just wasting them money?

Are those companies that pay a million dollars for 30 second ad in the super bowl just wasting their money?

 

[edward37]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them.

Based on years of experience sure dont trust the washington post or 500 legal quacks that the cat dragged in

you trust Trump?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Russians changed how many Dem voters into Trump voters?

Many No one knows the number but enough to perhaps keep this yellowbelly pos out of our WH

Many

You weren't dumb enough to change your vote based on a Facebook meme?

Do people change their votes based upon TV ads and robocalls?

Do you?

Nope, but in 2016 candidates spent 4.4 billion dollars on TV ads...clearly they think they have an impact. Are they just wasting them money?

Are those companies that pay a million dollars for 30 second ad in the super bowl just wasting their money?

Nope, but in 2016 candidates spent 4.4 billion dollars on TV ads...

And Russians spent...…$100,000?

 

[airplanemechanic]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

And 46 million people believe the Earth is flat.

Who gives a fuck?

 

[edward37]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

And 5 million people believe the Earth is flat.

Who gives a fuck?

Oh get over it

 

[airplanemechanic]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

And 5 million people believe the Earth is flat.

Who gives a fuck?

Oh get over it

Yea take your own advice.

You got Trump 5 more years.

 

[CWayne]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

clearly using the powers of the presidency to dig up dirt on a political rival is an impeachable offense as it is an abuse of power.

accepting such behavior shows how crooked the Republicans are

This article that Zorro posted was great, read it.

What you are saying is that the family of elites should face no accountability for corrupt behavior. That sounds absurd in my book.

Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
". . . In the American political tradition, officeholders, candidates and their families do not get a free pass—even when they are the political opponents of the president. Indeed, we think Trump would have abdicated his duty if he refused to push for an investigation that was otherwise warranted. Failing to investigate conduct that otherwise warranted an investigation would itself create allegations of improper conduct, and rightly so. Trump cannot escape that difficult choice and political responsibility for it merely by saying: My political opponent’s son must not face any accountability because he is my rival’s son.. . ."

again, what other Americans was Trump trying to put in the crosshairs on the phone call?

It really doesn't matter.

If the Biden's are guilty of a crime. . . It was his job to root out corruption in our administrative dealing with other nations.

Once the investigation commenced, I have heard that the other Americans that were involved in this corruption were friends of the Kerry's and the Pelosi family. . . though I am not positive of the details.

A lot of folks associated with the Obama administration profited from the neo-nazi coup that was funded and supported by the State Department.

Are you really this uninformed?

RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies
RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies



The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy
The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine 'Scandal': The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy

". . . . We know from the leaked, early 2014 telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland, then assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that then Vice President Biden played a role in “midwifing” the U.S.-backed overthrow of an elected Ukrainian government soon after that conversation.

That’s the biggest crime in this story that isn’t being told. The illegal overthrow of a sovereign government.

As booty from the coup, the sitting vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, soon got a seat on the board of Ukraine’s biggest gas producer, Burisma Holdings. This can only be seen as a transparently neocolonial maneuver to take over a country and install one’s own people. But Biden’s son wasn’t the only one.


Left to right: Kerry, post-coup president Petro Poroshenko, Pyatt and Nuland, June 2014. (State Dept.)

A family friend of then Secretary of State John Kerry also joined Burisma’s board. U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto got a Ukrainian contract soon after the overthrow. And the first, post-coup Ukrainian finance minister was an American citizen, a former State Department official, who was given Ukrainian citizenship the day before she took up the post.

After a Ukrainian prosecutor began looking into possible corruption at Burisma, Biden openly admitted at a conference last year that as vice president he withheld a $1 billion credit line to Ukraine until the government fired the prosecutor. As Biden says himself, it took only six hours for it to happen.

Exactly what Biden boasted of doing is what the Democrats are now accusing Trump of doing, and it isn’t clear if Trump got what he wanted as Biden did.

Threats, Bribes and Blackmail

That leads to another major part of this story not being told: the routine way the U.S. government conducts foreign policy: with bribes, threats and blackmail.

Trump may have withheld military aid to seek a probe into Biden, but it is hypocritically being framed by Democrats as an abuse of power out of the ordinary. But it is very much ordinary.

Examples abound. The threat of withholding foreign aid was wielded against nations on the UN Security Council in 1991 when the U.S. sought authorization for the First Gulf War. Yemen had the temerity to vote against. A member of the U.S. delegation told Yemen’s ambassador: “That’s the most expensive vote you ever cast.” The U.S. then cut $70 million in foreign aid to the Middle East’s poorest nation, and Saudi Arabia repatriated about a million Yemeni workers.

The same thing happened before the Second Gulf War in 2003, as revealed by whistleblower Katharine Gun (who will appear Friday night on CN Live!). Gun leaked an NSA memo that showed the U.S. sought help from its British counterpart in signals intelligence to spy on the missions of Security Council members to get “leverage” over them to influence their vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

In 2001 the U.S. threatened the end of military and foreign aid if nations did not conclude bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court.

More recently, the U.S. used its muscle against Ecuador, including dangling a $10 billion IMF loan, in exchange for the expulsion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy.

This is how the U.S. conducts “diplomacy.”

As former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali wrote:

“Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.”

This fundamental corruption of U.S. foreign policy, which includes overthrowing elected governments, is matched only by the corruption of a political system that exalts partisan political power above all else. Exposing this deep-seated and longstanding corruption should take precedence over scoring partisan scalps, whether Biden’s or Trump’s."

It doesn’t matter...correct. The Senate isn’t interested in doing it’s duty.

In fact, they are. They will be acquitting the man of all the false charges and then getting back to doing nothing until after the next election.

 

[edward37]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

And 5 million people believe the Earth is flat.

Who gives a fuck?

Oh get over it

Yea take your own advice.

You got Trump 5 more years.

Know what they say about counting your chickens before their hatched?

 

[JustAGuy1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

And 5 million people believe the Earth is flat.

Who gives a fuck?

Oh get over it

Yea take your own advice.

You got Trump 5 more years.

Know what they say about counting your chickens before their hatched?

We've been watching you idiots for 3 years.

 

[Mac-7]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them. They can’t handle any sort of cognitive dissonance. Their pre-conceived notions are too delicate.

Of course, republican voters only trust what Fox News is the GOP is telling them.

Based on years of experience sure dont trust the washington post or 500 legal quacks that the cat dragged in

you trust Trump?

I trust what I see or dont see

And you have no credible evidence against him

 

[whitehall]

From what I can gather it seems that there are over 17,000 faculty employed in law schools in the U.S. Aren't they all "law scholars"? If you do the math it seems that 500 radical leftie professors who hate the President is a pretty small number among "law scholars".

 

[edward37]

From what I can gather it seems that there are over 17,000 faculty employed in law schools in the U.S. Aren't they all "law scholars"? If you do the math it seems that 500 radical leftie professors who hate the President is a pretty small number among "law scholars".

They just stopped counting at 500 Probably could have had all 17000

 

[whitehall]

From what I can gather it seems that there are over 17,000 faculty employed in law schools in the U.S. Aren't they all "law scholars"? If you do the math it seems that 500 radical leftie professors who hate the President is a pretty small number among "law scholars".

They just stopped counting at 500 Probably could have had all 17000

You can invent mathematical equasions based on assumption if you want but it still seems as though 16,500 "law scholars" either don't give a damn, are Trump supporters or they haven't been as radicalized as the left hopes.

 

[edward37]

clearly using the powers of the presidency to dig up dirt on a political rival is an impeachable offense as it is an abuse of power.

accepting such behavior shows how crooked the Republicans are

This article that Zorro posted was great, read it.

What you are saying is that the family of elites should face no accountability for corrupt behavior. That sounds absurd in my book.

Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
". . . In the American political tradition, officeholders, candidates and their families do not get a free pass—even when they are the political opponents of the president. Indeed, we think Trump would have abdicated his duty if he refused to push for an investigation that was otherwise warranted. Failing to investigate conduct that otherwise warranted an investigation would itself create allegations of improper conduct, and rightly so. Trump cannot escape that difficult choice and political responsibility for it merely by saying: My political opponent’s son must not face any accountability because he is my rival’s son.. . ."

again, what other Americans was Trump trying to put in the crosshairs on the phone call?

It really doesn't matter.

If the Biden's are guilty of a crime. . . It was his job to root out corruption in our administrative dealing with other nations.

Once the investigation commenced, I have heard that the other Americans that were involved in this corruption were friends of the Kerry's and the Pelosi family. . . though I am not positive of the details.

A lot of folks associated with the Obama administration profited from the neo-nazi coup that was funded and supported by the State Department.

Are you really this uninformed?

RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies
RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies



The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy
The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine 'Scandal': The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy

". . . . We know from the leaked, early 2014 telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland, then assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that then Vice President Biden played a role in “midwifing” the U.S.-backed overthrow of an elected Ukrainian government soon after that conversation.

That’s the biggest crime in this story that isn’t being told. The illegal overthrow of a sovereign government.

As booty from the coup, the sitting vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, soon got a seat on the board of Ukraine’s biggest gas producer, Burisma Holdings. This can only be seen as a transparently neocolonial maneuver to take over a country and install one’s own people. But Biden’s son wasn’t the only one.


Left to right: Kerry, post-coup president Petro Poroshenko, Pyatt and Nuland, June 2014. (State Dept.)

A family friend of then Secretary of State John Kerry also joined Burisma’s board. U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto got a Ukrainian contract soon after the overthrow. And the first, post-coup Ukrainian finance minister was an American citizen, a former State Department official, who was given Ukrainian citizenship the day before she took up the post.

After a Ukrainian prosecutor began looking into possible corruption at Burisma, Biden openly admitted at a conference last year that as vice president he withheld a $1 billion credit line to Ukraine until the government fired the prosecutor. As Biden says himself, it took only six hours for it to happen.

Exactly what Biden boasted of doing is what the Democrats are now accusing Trump of doing, and it isn’t clear if Trump got what he wanted as Biden did.

Threats, Bribes and Blackmail

That leads to another major part of this story not being told: the routine way the U.S. government conducts foreign policy: with bribes, threats and blackmail.

Trump may have withheld military aid to seek a probe into Biden, but it is hypocritically being framed by Democrats as an abuse of power out of the ordinary. But it is very much ordinary.

Examples abound. The threat of withholding foreign aid was wielded against nations on the UN Security Council in 1991 when the U.S. sought authorization for the First Gulf War. Yemen had the temerity to vote against. A member of the U.S. delegation told Yemen’s ambassador: “That’s the most expensive vote you ever cast.” The U.S. then cut $70 million in foreign aid to the Middle East’s poorest nation, and Saudi Arabia repatriated about a million Yemeni workers.

The same thing happened before the Second Gulf War in 2003, as revealed by whistleblower Katharine Gun (who will appear Friday night on CN Live!). Gun leaked an NSA memo that showed the U.S. sought help from its British counterpart in signals intelligence to spy on the missions of Security Council members to get “leverage” over them to influence their vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

In 2001 the U.S. threatened the end of military and foreign aid if nations did not conclude bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court.

More recently, the U.S. used its muscle against Ecuador, including dangling a $10 billion IMF loan, in exchange for the expulsion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy.

This is how the U.S. conducts “diplomacy.”

As former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali wrote:

“Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.”

This fundamental corruption of U.S. foreign policy, which includes overthrowing elected governments, is matched only by the corruption of a political system that exalts partisan political power above all else. Exposing this deep-seated and longstanding corruption should take precedence over scoring partisan scalps, whether Biden’s or Trump’s."

It doesn’t matter...correct. The Senate isn’t interested in doing it’s duty.

In fact, they are. They will be acquitting the man of all the false charges and then getting back to doing nothing until after the next election.

Trump is unfit to lead this country a lowlife SB a skunk But that shouldn't come as a surprise His life story tells the tale

 

[CWayne]

This article that Zorro posted was great, read it.

What you are saying is that the family of elites should face no accountability for corrupt behavior. That sounds absurd in my book.

Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
". . . In the American political tradition, officeholders, candidates and their families do not get a free pass—even when they are the political opponents of the president. Indeed, we think Trump would have abdicated his duty if he refused to push for an investigation that was otherwise warranted. Failing to investigate conduct that otherwise warranted an investigation would itself create allegations of improper conduct, and rightly so. Trump cannot escape that difficult choice and political responsibility for it merely by saying: My political opponent’s son must not face any accountability because he is my rival’s son.. . ."

again, what other Americans was Trump trying to put in the crosshairs on the phone call?

It really doesn't matter.

If the Biden's are guilty of a crime. . . It was his job to root out corruption in our administrative dealing with other nations.

Once the investigation commenced, I have heard that the other Americans that were involved in this corruption were friends of the Kerry's and the Pelosi family. . . though I am not positive of the details.

A lot of folks associated with the Obama administration profited from the neo-nazi coup that was funded and supported by the State Department.

Are you really this uninformed?

RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies
RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies



The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy
The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine 'Scandal': The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy

". . . . We know from the leaked, early 2014 telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland, then assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that then Vice President Biden played a role in “midwifing” the U.S.-backed overthrow of an elected Ukrainian government soon after that conversation.

That’s the biggest crime in this story that isn’t being told. The illegal overthrow of a sovereign government.

As booty from the coup, the sitting vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, soon got a seat on the board of Ukraine’s biggest gas producer, Burisma Holdings. This can only be seen as a transparently neocolonial maneuver to take over a country and install one’s own people. But Biden’s son wasn’t the only one.


Left to right: Kerry, post-coup president Petro Poroshenko, Pyatt and Nuland, June 2014. (State Dept.)

A family friend of then Secretary of State John Kerry also joined Burisma’s board. U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto got a Ukrainian contract soon after the overthrow. And the first, post-coup Ukrainian finance minister was an American citizen, a former State Department official, who was given Ukrainian citizenship the day before she took up the post.

After a Ukrainian prosecutor began looking into possible corruption at Burisma, Biden openly admitted at a conference last year that as vice president he withheld a $1 billion credit line to Ukraine until the government fired the prosecutor. As Biden says himself, it took only six hours for it to happen.

Exactly what Biden boasted of doing is what the Democrats are now accusing Trump of doing, and it isn’t clear if Trump got what he wanted as Biden did.

Threats, Bribes and Blackmail

That leads to another major part of this story not being told: the routine way the U.S. government conducts foreign policy: with bribes, threats and blackmail.

Trump may have withheld military aid to seek a probe into Biden, but it is hypocritically being framed by Democrats as an abuse of power out of the ordinary. But it is very much ordinary.

Examples abound. The threat of withholding foreign aid was wielded against nations on the UN Security Council in 1991 when the U.S. sought authorization for the First Gulf War. Yemen had the temerity to vote against. A member of the U.S. delegation told Yemen’s ambassador: “That’s the most expensive vote you ever cast.” The U.S. then cut $70 million in foreign aid to the Middle East’s poorest nation, and Saudi Arabia repatriated about a million Yemeni workers.

The same thing happened before the Second Gulf War in 2003, as revealed by whistleblower Katharine Gun (who will appear Friday night on CN Live!). Gun leaked an NSA memo that showed the U.S. sought help from its British counterpart in signals intelligence to spy on the missions of Security Council members to get “leverage” over them to influence their vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

In 2001 the U.S. threatened the end of military and foreign aid if nations did not conclude bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court.

More recently, the U.S. used its muscle against Ecuador, including dangling a $10 billion IMF loan, in exchange for the expulsion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy.

This is how the U.S. conducts “diplomacy.”

As former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali wrote:

“Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.”

This fundamental corruption of U.S. foreign policy, which includes overthrowing elected governments, is matched only by the corruption of a political system that exalts partisan political power above all else. Exposing this deep-seated and longstanding corruption should take precedence over scoring partisan scalps, whether Biden’s or Trump’s."

It doesn’t matter...correct. The Senate isn’t interested in doing it’s duty.

In fact, they are. They will be acquitting the man of all the false charges and then getting back to doing nothing until after the next election.

Trump is unfit to lead this country a lowlife SB a skunk But that shouldn't come as a surprise His life story tells the tale

I don't really like Trump. But he is far more 'fit' to run this country than Clinton was Enjoy.

 

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From what I can gather it seems that there are over 17,000 faculty employed in law schools in the U.S. Aren't they all "law scholars"? If you do the math it seems that 500 radical leftie professors who hate the President is a pretty small number among "law scholars".

They just stopped counting at 500 Probably could have had all 17000

Can you produce proof of the law credentials of say, 20 of these 500?