Pelosi Points to Possible Bribery Charge Against Trump
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharpened the focus of Democrats’ impeachment case against President Trump on Thursday, accusing the president of committing bribery when he withheld vital military assistance from Ukraine at the same time he was seeking its commitment to publicly investigate his political rivals.
The speaker’s explicit allegation of bribery, a misdeed identified in the Constitution as an impeachable offense, was significant. Even as Ms. Pelosi said that no final decision had been made on whether to impeach Mr. Trump, it suggested that Democrats are increasingly working to put a name to the president’s alleged wrongdoing, and moving toward a more specific set of charges that could be codified in articles of impeachment in the coming weeks.
“The devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry, and that the president abused his power and violated his oath by threatening to withhold military aid and a White House meeting in exchange for an investigation into his political rival — a clear attempt by the president to give himself an advantage in the 2020 election,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference in the Capitol.
Democrats have begun using the term “bribery” more freely in recent days to describe what a string of diplomats and career Trump administration officials have said was a highly unusual and inappropriate effort by Mr. Trump and a small group around him to extract a public promise from Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a discredited theory about Democrats conspiring with Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/us/politics/pelosi-impeachment-bribery.html
That's what it is. Bribery and extortion (and this is just this case as we know there is also tax fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, campaign finance violations, and probably wire fraud and all kinds of other stuff to boot!
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ETA - here was her news conference today -
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Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
He's only been sued and accused, how many thousands of times?
He's a man with web sites dedicated to his crimes?
He's lied so many times his nose should be a straight non-stop route from L.A. to N.Y.C.?
Talk is cheap, we want some actual removal of garbage.
