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Judiciary report; alleges criminal activity = Trump impeachment back-up

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 12:15 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Congress
Judiciary Committee impeachment report alleges Trump committed 'multiple federal crimes'
The 169-page report makes the case for Trump's removal from office.
President Donald Trump committed criminal bribery and wire fraud, the House Judiciary Committee alleges in a report that will accompany articles of impeachment this week.
The report, a 169-page assessment of the case for Trump’s removal from office, contends that Trump committed “multiple federal crimes” — ones that Democrats addressed under the broad umbrella of “abuse of power,” the first article of impeachment against the president.
“Although President Trump’s actions need not rise to the level of a criminal violation to justify impeachment, his conduct here was criminal,” the panel’s Democrats argue, labeling Trump’s behavior “both constitutional and criminal in character” and contending that the president “betrayed the people of this nation” and should be removed from office.
The staff report, which was filed to the House Rules Committee just after midnight Monday, argues that Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election, the allegation that forms the core of the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — approved by the Judiciary Committee last week. Democrats emphasized that proving a criminal violation is not required to justify impeachment.
“The Framers were not fools. They authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes,” the report states.
The Judiciary Committee’s report presents the panel’s most thorough analysis yet of why Democrats believe the accusations against Trump are worthy of immediate impeachment and a recommendation that the Senate remove Trump from office. It comes a day before the Rules Committee formally considers the articles of impeachment, ahead of a likely Wednesday vote on the House floor.
The committee contends that Trump’s actions were part of a pattern than began with his “welcoming” of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and continues to this day. In fact, the panel’s Democrats cite his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s trip to Ukraine just last week as evidence that Trump intends to continue the alleged scheme. Trump’s lack of remorse over the Ukraine allegations, Democrats claim, is evidence that he poses a “continuing threat if left in office.”
“President Trump has made it clear that he believes he is free to use his presidential powers the same way, to the same ends, whenever and wherever he pleases,” the report states.
The panel’s report, which comes on the heels of a House Intelligence Committee-led investigation that formed the basis of the articles of impeachment, contends that Trump’s most acute abuse of his power occurred during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when Trump asked his counterpart to launch investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats.
Though the Judiciary Committee report indicates this evidence alone is enough to warrant Trump’s impeachment, the report cites as an “aggravating factor” that Trump — through Giuliani and other allies — repeatedly dangled and withheld an Oval Office visit from Zelensky that the Ukrainian leader desperately wanted as a show of support amid his country’s ongoing war with Russia.
The report also notes that Trump ordered a freeze of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine over the objections of advisers at the State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council, which he only lifted after Democrats began investigating the matter.
Democrats argue that Trump crossed the threshold into criminal behavior with his posture toward Zelensky, writing in the report that his request for the announcement of politically motivated investigations constituted the solicitation of a bribe under federal law.
Those investigations were valuable to Trump personally, and he used his official power to schedule a state visit and withhold military aid to obtain them, the panel says.
These actions are a “corrupt” use of Trump’s authority that satisfies the final element of a bribery crime, Democrats argue.
The committee also alleges that Trump violated the honest services wire fraud statute during the July 25 phone call, as well as during a separate phone call a day later with Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Those “foreign wire communications” were done “in furtherance of an ongoing bribery scheme,” according to the report.
“Fundamentally, the president has deprived the American people of the honorable stewardship that the nation expects and demands of its chief executive," the panel alleges, noting that the federal wire fraud statute imposes a 20-year imprisonment.
In an accompanying 18-page dissent, Judiciary Committee Republicans, led by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), assail Democrats’ evidence as “paltry” and an “affront to the constitutional process of impeachment.”
“If President Nixon’s impeachment proceedings are the ‘gold standard’ for presidential impeachment inquiries, these proceedings, in stark contrast, will go down in history as the quintessential example of how such proceedings should not be conducted,” Collins writes.
Collins rejects Democrats’ articles of impeachment as “vague,” “hyperbolic” and “misleading,” particularly as they describe fear of future presidential misconduct. He also blasts Democrats for declining to offer any articles of impeachment that specifically allege criminal violations.
“While individual articles of impeachment have been passed against prior presidents that do not allege criminality, no president has been impeached solely on non-criminal accusations,” Collins writes. He adds that Democrats have failed to exhaust their legal avenues to obtain information they claim Trump is obstructing.
Among Democrats’ other conclusions was a contention that waiting for the federal courts to resolve fights with the White House over witnesses and documents — as Collins urged — would be “unnecessary and impractical.” Rather, they argue, Trump has abused the court process to delay Democrats’ impeachment proceedings, and waiting for a judicial ruling would render the House “subservient” to courts in a process meant to be entirely controlled by Congress.
“[T]he House has never before relied on litigation to compel witness testimony or the production of documents in a presidential impeachment proceeding,” the committee concludes. “Some members of the minority have suggested otherwise, but there is no law or practice to support such a theory.”
The committee’s report also marks a return of sorts for the evidence unearthed by special counsel Robert Mueller. Democrats claim the Ukraine allegations against Trump are part of a “pattern” of misconduct that began with Trump’s alleged solicitation of Russian assistance in the 2016 election — a matter probed by Mueller for nearly two years. Mueller also found that Trump made multiple attempts to hinder or end his investigation.
“The pattern is as unmistakable as it is unnerving,” the Judiciary Committee argues.

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Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk

Replies to: Judiciary report; alleges criminal activity = Trump impeachment back-up


Thread Level: 2

The man is profoundly unfit for the office

Author: Chris94 (36755 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:36 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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I like how our right-wing boardmates have convinced themselves that Trump controls the economy, a superpower that absolves him of all malfeasance.

They are going to have a real hard time when the business cycle rears its head.


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More bluff and bluster from the big daddy blowhard prof.

Author: (unknown user)(User Info Not Available)

Posted at 2:51 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Everybody is an idiot but you and the libs. Do you realize how Neanderthal that thinking is?

You are highly educated yet you dismiss others point of view summarily?

That is arrogance, not wisdom.


Thread Level: 4

Exactly, miseducated, miserable,MSM stooge

Author: eftg1 (12936 Posts - Joined: Sep 19, 2012)

Posted at 5:52 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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And you are going to be suicidal when he's reelected

Author: ColeyO (12511 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 2:08 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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No one is "fit" for that office... the issue is, are a majority content with the results?

Author: Curly1918 (16450 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)

Posted at 1:09 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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That is a nonsense post.

Author: Chris94 (36755 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 1:19 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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My guess is that the next election will also be nonsense.

Author: Curly1918 (16450 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)

Posted at 7:29 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Most voters will hold their nose to protect their pocketbook.

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Going over every detail on a continual basis, nothing can fix the hole in your life

Author: eftg1 (12936 Posts - Joined: Sep 19, 2012)

Posted at 12:59 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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How's your 401K?

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 12:43 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
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Weren't you convinced that the failure to elect Hillary controlled the economy...at one point.

Author: TakethetrainKnute (33496 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:43 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Keep praying for a depression. You’re only about yourself. Celebrate the American economy. Can you?

Author: PBHangingChad (15790 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:38 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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"You’re only about yourself."? - It is you who keeps posting "How's your 401K", yes?

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 12:46 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Sounds very definitely a selfish concern. Correct me if I'm wrong

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
Thread Level: 5

According to CBO about 125 million Americans have retirement accounts up 27%. You probably don’t but

Author: PBHangingChad (15790 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:58 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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if you did you probably followed your leader Rachel Maddow and sold on election night. So is that part of your bitterness. And I also like the country’s lowest unemployment for all groups and raising wages. You are the selfish one praying for a disaster for America to relieve you of your TDS.

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All boats rise on the rising tide. Hoping for a rising tide is concern for all.

Author: NedoftheHill (44678 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 12:49 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Apparently you want only certain boats to rise? Your favorites? That sounds very selfish.

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
Thread Level: 6

Don't you mean Yachts?

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 12:51 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Oh, and Trump and the Republicans want only certain boats to rise - hence the Trump Tax bill. If you're looking for selfish.

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
Thread Level: 7

Just explaining how the 401k question is the opposite of selfish.

Author: NedoftheHill (44678 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 12:56 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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I don't think you have to have a yacht to have a 401k. In fact, I doubt yacht owners are relying on 401k's.

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Sure - Shuffler.

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 1:01 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
Thread Level: 9

Heh. From the King Shuffler.

Author: NedoftheHill (44678 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 1:25 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Don't let Frank's embarrassment and resulting pettiness affect your consistently charitable approach to Board posters.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
Thread Level: 10

14.

Author: Frank L (64683 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 2:12 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Hospital Ship

Author: ColeyO (12511 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 3:40 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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Right on cue.

Author: Chris94 (36755 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:42 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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You are obsessed with this stuff. I’m worried you won’t survive Trump’s re-election. Get help soon.

Author: PBHangingChad (15790 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:34 pm on Dec 16, 2019
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