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Impeachment Report Alleges Trump Solicited Foreign Election Interference

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House Democrats on Tuesday released a 300-page impeachment report asserting that President Trump abused his power by trying to enlist Ukraine to help him in the 2020 presidential election. The report said that Mr. Trump “placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States,” seeking to undermine American democracy and endangering national security.

The document, drawn up by the House Intelligence Committee that has led the inquiry into Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, left it to another panel to decide whether to recommend his impeachment and removal. But it laid out in searing fashion what are all but certain to be the grounds on which the Democratic-led House moves to impeach the president.

The lengthy document outlined more than two months of public and private testimony from diplomats and other administration officials who described a campaign by the president and his allies to pressure Ukraine for investigations of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats, while withholding nearly $400 million in military assistance and a White House meeting for Ukraine’s president.


“The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a monthslong effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election,” said the report, released ahead of a vote Tuesday evening by the Intelligence Committee to formally approve it. It asserts that Mr. Trump’s “scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential re-election campaign.”


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Democrats on three House committees on Tuesday released a report documenting the impeachment case against President Trump.

The report also lays out what it calls an “unprecedented campaign of obstruction of this impeachment inquiry” by Mr. Trump, in light of his move to prevent the release of documents from agencies including the State Department, the Department of Defense and the White House budget office and instructing potential witnesses not to cooperate.

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“The damage to our system of checks and balances, and to the balance of power within our three branches of government, will be long-lasting and potentially irrevocable if the president’s ability to stonewall Congress goes unchecked,” the report concluded. “Any future president will feel empowered to resist an investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a nation at far greater risk of all three.”

The inquiry will soon be transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. The core investigative work and public hearings are for now concluded, which means that the Judiciary Committee will begin considering articles of impeachment in the coming weeks. Its first public event will be Wednesday, a hearing that will feature four scholars discussing the constitutional standards for impeachment."},{"bullet":" Democrats and Republicans prepared their impeachment reports. Staff members for the committees conducting the inquiry spent last week finishing dueling reports on the evidence they have compiled so far, which will serve as the guiding materials for the Judiciary Committee."},{"bullet":"The Democratic report is expected to argue that President Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine to do his bidding in order to gain an advantage in the 2020 election. Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee were expected to review it today, before the report is sent to the whole committee tomorrow for a vote."},{"bullet":"The 123-page Republican report, which you can read here, argues that Mr. Trump was acting on “genuine and reasonable” skepticism of Ukraine when he pressed the country for investigations of his Democratic rivals."},{"bullet":"President Trump will not participate in Wednesday’s hearing. Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, sent a blistering letter to Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, yesterday, criticizing what he called an unfair process and turning down an offer to appear. The letter followed days of internal debate among the president’s legal team about whether to engage with the committee. In his letter, Mr. Cipollone did not rule out participation in future hearings. The White House has a Friday deadline to say whether it will participate at all."}]}]}" id="g-inlineguide-id" class="g-inlineguide" data-enabled="true">
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    • The inquiry will soon be transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. The core investigative work and public hearings are for now concluded, which means that the Judiciary Committee will begin considering articles of impeachment in the coming weeks. Its first public event will be Wednesday, a hearing that will feature four scholars discussing the constitutional standards for impeachment.
    • Democrats and Republicans prepared their impeachment reports. Staff members for the committees conducting the inquiry spent last week finishing dueling reports on the evidence they have compiled so far, which will serve as the guiding materials for the Judiciary Committee.
    • The Democratic report is expected to argue that President Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine to do his bidding in order to gain an advantage in the 2020 election. Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee were expected to review it today, before the report is sent to the whole committee tomorrow for a vote.
    • President Trump will not participate in Wednesday’s hearing. Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, sent a blistering letter to Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, yesterday, criticizing what he called an unfair process and turning down an offer to appear. The letter followed days of internal debate among the president’s legal team about whether to engage with the committee. In his letter, Mr. Cipollone did not rule out participation in future hearings. The White House has a Friday deadline to say whether it will participate at all.
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The report is a watershed moment for the months-old inquiry. Its delivery sets in motion the next phase in the impeachment of Mr. Trump, accelerating a constitutional clash that has happened only three times in the nation’s history. Both parties are poised for a fierce, partisan debate in the House Judiciary Committee over whether the president should be removed from office.

The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin its debate on Wednesday with a public hearing that features four constitutional scholars discussing the historical standards for impeachment and their assessment about whether Mr. Trump’s actions constitute “high crimes and misdemeanors” that warrant his removal from office.




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FUNFACT: Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States: “The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”

Once an impeachment vote happens, any crimes outlined in it will eventually be prosecuted, as they are not pardonable. The only reprieve would literally be dying in office due to a stroke or heart attack caused by the stress of the criminal liabilities....
 
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uhhhh, an election that didn't happen yet and with biden, who isn't officially chosen yet? ok. what if warren is the one? did he call the indian reservations and indian chiefs a year ago in case she's the one?

the truth is the ukranians were all for hills, they got busted for it. now trump was warning them of a biden/hills/Obama criminal network on their soil. dems don't like that. you cannot warn them of dem criminal activity!
 
“The damage to our system of checks and balances, and to the balance of power within our three branches of government, will be long-lasting and potentially irrevocable if the president’s ability to stonewall Congress goes unchecked,” the report concluded. “Any future president will feel empowered to resist an investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a nation at far greater risk of all three.”

This is really the core issue here.
 
“The damage to our system of checks and balances, and to the balance of power within our three branches of government, will be long-lasting and potentially irrevocable if the president’s ability to stonewall Congress goes unchecked,” the report concluded. “Any future president will feel empowered to resist an investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a nation at far greater risk of all three.”

This is really the core issue here.
yes because trump was investigating the dem hills biden Obama criminal syndicate. any future president shall feel the need to resist investigating dems because that might get you a fake impeachment process in a basement
 
Impeach this sack of shit, let the Clowns in the Senate not convict and vote all these traitors out in 2020.
All of this puts so much more pressure on GOP members of Congress.

They can certainly vote to keep him in office. But many will be doing so at the peril of their own political futures. Particularly as this continues to head south on Trump.
 
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All of this puts so much more pressure on GOP members of Congress.

They can certainly vote to keep him in office. But many will be doing so at the peril of their own political futures. Particularly as this continues to head south on Trump.
At this point good, they are all complicit and have sold their souls. F em all and we need them all removed.
 
Got screwed by the email verification thing when they had my original email from 2005 on there so kind of screwed, this Rookie has a clue when they know Trump needs to be removed ASAP.

Well I thought you sounded like a seasoned vet. That’s why I was curious what your previous handle was.
 
uhhhh, an election that didn't happen yet and with biden, who isn't officially chosen yet? ok. what if warren is the one? did he call the indian reservations and indian chiefs a year ago in case she's the one?

the truth is the ukranians were all for hills, they got busted for it. now trump was warning them of a biden/hills/Obama criminal network on their soil. dems don't like that. you cannot warn them of dem criminal activity!


Wow
 
yes because trump was investigating the dem hills biden Obama criminal syndicate. any future president shall feel the need to resist investigating dems because that might get you a fake impeachment process in a basement

You know Trump could’ve opened an investigation with our own intelligence agencies, right?
 
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what's stunning about trump and rudy wanting to make sure our tax payor money is not going over to Ukraine for criminal activity? I think it's just good sound practice.

Why did they hold it up after the 3rd payment by this President to Ukraine?
 
Time for Republicans to re-read George Orwell’s 1984:

“But it was alright, everything was alright. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
 
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http://www.startribune.com/sack-cartoon-russian-nesting-doll/565755452/
 
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Yet we the people re-elect at an 88% clip. How do you explain this?

People are easily distracted by spoon-fed issues, like: gun control, abortion rights, big government, welfare, etc.

It was illuminating when you saw people in Red states railing on "Obamacare", but in the same breath, they loved the benefits the ACA provides them (e.g. pre-existing conditions)
 
People are easily distracted by spoon-fed issues, like: gun control, abortion rights, big government, welfare, etc.

It was illuminating when you saw people in Red states railing on "Obamacare", but in the same breath, they loved the benefits the ACA provides them (e.g. pre-existing conditions)
Hell, you had people in Kentucky praising K-nect or whatever they call it and denouncing the ACA with their next breath.

Hey...dumbass...K-nect IS the ACA.
 
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