NotYourBody
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Bribery is impeachable. None of your hollering changes that.It's why the GOP could impeach Clinton for lying about a blow job.I think your GOP filter is obscuring the truth. What "he (Trump) had in mind" is critical to whether he was violating both the constitution and campaign election laws when he pressured the Ukraine to open an investigation of the Bidens or just sought to eliminate corruption in the Ukraine. If his intent was to discredit Joe Biden, he is violating the law and the constitution but if his intent is simply to cleanup corruption in the Ukraine, then the Senate should dismiss the applicable charges.Well......the communist and Democrat party. That's why the Democrats became the anti-white party.
It's one thing for people in parties to try and change leadership. That's understandable. But this idiocy would make our founders turn over in their graves. They want to impeach a President over what "they think" he had in mind when he took certain actions, and brought witnesses who also "thought" what Trump had in mind.
The entire impeachment is about suppositions, interpretations, and assumptions, but no real facts. Nixon was a fact; hard core evidence. Clinton was a fact; DNA evidence and court testimony. There are no facts here, and certainly no impeachable offenses.
As explained in the Federalist Papers (I think the number is 65), high crimes and misdemeanors is essentially bad conduct, not necessarily a violation of the law. If you look back at previous impeachments you will see articles charging violation of oath of office, improper use of executive powers, behavior unbecoming the office, immoral behavior, drunkenness, etc.
It has become customary that in impeachments today, there be at least one charge of violation of the law but that has not always been the case. You see, our forefathers believed that public officials must be held to much higher standards than the public. Just being a law abiding citizens was not enough. They expected public officials to be of high character. For example in Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson it was claimed that he spoke with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues before congress.
Our forefathers would roll over in their graves if they saw who we were electing today.
Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to a country that desperately needed it in order to get dirt on his political opponent.
That is worse than lying about a blow job.
A temporary hold on US tax dollars is not against the law. Presidents (including Hussein) have been doing it for years. However perjury has always been against the law.
Trump tried to bribe Ukraine to announce an investigation into his political rival by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid.
Way worse than lying about a blow job. WAY worse.
You might find this old column helpful -
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Then show us where Trump openly stated that's what he was doing. Trump, like other Presidents in the past, temporarily held up aid for various reasons. As Sondland testified, Ukraine is notorious for making promises and not keeping them. Trump wanted that announcement to hold them to their word. He did not threaten to withhold aid for that reason however. All the ambassadors made the assumption he did, but never got any presidential direction that the aid was contingent on that announcement.
Trump doesn't need to announce "I am now committing bribery by withholding this foreign aid in exchange for the announcement of an investigation into my political rival." He doesn't have to say the word bribery with his mouth and vocal cords.
The evidence, based on his actions, shows what he did. Fact witnesses have confirmed it. And he was only TWO days from getting away with it! No wonder he wants the name of the whistle blower.