IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES - GAH
nolu chan
16 December 2019
(2) With the same corrupt motives, President Trump—acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States Government—conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested— (A) the release of $391 million of United States taxpayer funds that Congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and which President Trump had ordered suspended; and
(B) a head of state meeting at the White House, which the President of Ukraine sought to demonstrate continued United States support for the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
The timing of the release of the funds before the end of the fiscal year was a discretionary act on the part of the Executive branch. Sworn testimony established the delayed release of such funds to numerous countries, and by the preceding administration. While Congress excels at giving away taxpayer money, the Executive is not excluded from ensuring the money is not given to thieves.
Whether to hold a head of state meeting at the White House is an act at the sole discretion of the Executive Branch. The Executive is not precluded from asking a new government to demonstrate they are serious about fighting rampant corruption before disbursing the funds.
When asking for something in return for their votes, congress critters are not shy. They organized a system where bagmen sat in a lobby near their offices with bags of money to offer. Thus came the term lobbyist. Now lobbyists are more discreet about the bags of money, but money is still the grease that makes the wheels of congress turn. How do congress critters all become multi-millionaires on the salary of congress critters?
(3) Faced with the public revelation of his actions, President Trump ultimately released the military and security assistance to the Government of Ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal political benefit.
Evidence that Joe Biden was involved in corruption while Vice President of the United States would redound to the benefit of President Donald J. Trump were Mr. Biden to be nominated to run for President. The Democrats have not provided evidence of such corruption. A finding of no such corruption would redound to the benefit of Joe Biden. Unfortunately, Mr. Biden experiences some difficulty summoning a non-corrupt explanation of how his son received $1M a year for a no show job for which he was spectacularly unqualified, at a time very shortly following being kicked out of the Navy and going to rehab for cocaine addiction.
Apparently, the Committee did not weigh in on how it affects Joe Biden as a candidate to have helped his juvenile child gain entry to the U.S. Armed Forces as a 44-year old self-medicating cocaine addict. Is that the mark of presidential judgment?
There is nothing but hearsay and assumptions that President Trump asked for anything. There is the official transcripts which show President Trump stating that he wanted nothing but for Ukraine to do the right thing regarding corruption.
These actions were consistent with President Trump’s previous invitations of foreign interference in United States elections. In all of this, President Trump abused the powers of the Presidency by ignoring and injuring national security and other vital national interests to obtain an improper personal political benefit. He has also betrayed the Nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.
This article is a joke, as was Candidate Trump's invitation for President Putin to provide Hillary's 30,000 missing emails.
Further evidence of this article being a joke is that an official, including a President, cannot be impeached for acts taken prior to entering office. President Trump cannot be impeached for the acts of Candidate Trump.
Wherefore President Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
Here, the nutbags find an impeachable offense in projected future events which they imagine will happen. President Trump must be impeached and removed from office to prevent him from committing an impeachable offense in the future.
