This is very unsettling, coming as it does so late in the process.
The lengthy and detailed report on Trump’s impeachment, produced by the Judiciary Committee, does not include a single citation, not to mention cogent analysis, of 52 U.S. Code 30121, the very law (under a-2) making it “unlawful,” a “prohibition,” for “a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution,” otherwise defined therein as a “thing of value” from a foreign national.
Let me condense the above: Under 52 U.S. Code 30121, it is unlawful for a person to solicit a thing of value from a foreign national.
Now follow what some might argue is my addled logic: U.S. President Trump solicited Ukraine’s President Zalensky for a thing of value, an unlawful violation of 52 U.S. Code 30121.
Do you see a connection between the statute and the violation? Did anyone writing the House impeachment report? If you can find that statute cited in the impeachment report, I’ll withdraw my complaint and apologize for wasting your valuable time with a meaningless rant.
But while I’m still on my soapbox, let me add that no Democrat on either the House Intelligence Committee or Judiciary Committee, at least to my memory, specifically cited this law, or its violation, much less drove it home. I’ve heard the “thing of value” reference many times, but not from House members who could have called out the specific statute and Trump’s violation of it under law. If anyone did, I heard crickets during live TV coverage and from later media reporting as to the importance of this statute.
My God, people, this is half of the entire freakin’ case. I can’t believe there is not a single mention of this critical statute in the final House impeachment report!
Rant concluded.