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Well, it’s about time they traded-in the archaic Latin for crimes that ordinary people can actually understand. In terms, fully and clearly backed-up by the U.S. Constitution:
Schiff: Trump could be impeached for bribery
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) suggested President Trump’s possible impeachable offenses include bribery in an interview set to air Wednesday with NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
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In the interview, Schiff said bribery, one of the offenses the Constitution outlines as impeachable, had a different meaning at the time the Constitution was written than how it is commonly understood today.
“It was much broader. It connoted the breach of the public trust in a way where you're offering official acts for some personal or political reason, not in the nation's interest,” Schiff said. “Here you have the president of the United States seeking help from Ukraine in his reelection campaign in the form of two investigations that he thought were politically advantageous, including one of his primary rival.”
“It doesn't have to be cash. It can be something of value,” Schiff added, saying that conditioning foreign aid on political favors could be considered bribery even in the modern context.
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A legal expert (Glenn Kirschner) on the Last Word tonight, explained it to guest host Ari Melber this way, as they closed out the show [towards the end of this segment clip] — roughly put:
Imagine that Trump withheld the $400 Million in military aid to Ukraine, and would only release the funds if Ukraine would give him a $1 Million kickback.
Well most everyone would readily agree that would be wrong, that would be bribery, and that would be an impeachable abuse of power — a Million Dollar kickback.
Well the condition Trump did put forward, in exchange for the release of $400 Million — was worth a lot more than a Million Dollars to Trump. Trump was asking for asking for a “fake investigation” into his political opponent. This was so Trump could more easily get re-elected, and keep profiting off of the Office he now holds, through his personal businesses; and so he can continue to avoid Indictments, under the guise of being ‘a sitting President’.
All of that is worth much more than a $1 Million kickback to Donald Trump.
That about sums it up. In plain English, that nearly everyone can understand.
Donald Trump, and his shadow “State Dept”, are guilty of Bribery, when they tried to get the new President of Ukraine, to go along with their illegal scheme.
And Bribery is explicitly stated in the Constitution as an Impeachable offense.
And Adam Schiff, Chairman of the Intelligence Committee — just said he’s going there.
It doesn’t get much clearer than this.
Article Two, Section Four of the United States Constitution provides that:
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High crimes and Misdemeanors."