Posts Tagged ‘Impeachment’

The Second Impeachment

Posted: February 9, 2021 in News and politics
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UH, yup!

Obstruction of justice

Here are some that are still within the legal time frame!

  1. “Conduct involving FBI Director Comey and Michael Flynn”
  2. “The President’s reaction to the continuing Russia investigation”
  3. “The President’s termination of Comey”
  4. “The appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him”
  5. “Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel’s investigation”
  6. “Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence”
  7. “Further efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation”
  8. “Efforts to have McGahn deny that the President had ordered him to have the Special Counsel removed”
  9. “Conduct toward Flynn, [Paul] Manafort, [REDACTED]”
  10. “Conduct involving Michael Cohen”

Bribery

This would be about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asking for a “favor” in the form of finding dirt on a political opponent, Joe Biden. There are several other suspected bribes, but this is the one where he was impeached by the House, but found guilty by the Senate. So is still viable. So since the House’s findings did not limit his freedom!

Conspiracy to defraud the United States

 

This occurs when individuals agree to obstruct the work of a federal agency. If members of the Trump administration sabotaged the U.S. Postal Service to influence the outcome of the 2020 election, this charge could be considered for anyone who conspired to achieve the illegal objective, even those who took no personal action.

Campaign finance violations

 

Cohen set up a shell corporation to make a $130,000 payment to prevent Daniels from making public statements that would harm the Trump’s candidacy. As stated in court documents in Cohen’s case, the payments assisted the campaign by preventing the publication of negative stories about candidate Trump that

might influence the election. His payment exceeded the legal limit of $2,700 for campaign contributions and violated the law prohibiting corporate contributions. The government stated that Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1” — identified as someone who ran “an ultimately successful campaign for President of the United States.”

The following cannot be included in impeachment as they are;

Pre-presidency crimes

 

Trump  consistently over valued his properties to gain access to loans. Then undervalued those same properties when it came time to pay taxes! He is currently being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney!  Potential crimes include bank, insurance and tax fraud; money laundering; and preparing false business records.

Crimes for another day?

 

Mueller, because Justice Department policy prohibited him from filing charges against a sitting president, did file any! He made clear, however, that his report was intended to “preserve the evidence” obtained in his investigation because “a President does not have immunity after he leaves office.” Trump mutilated the truth when speaking about the fact no charges were filed, and just pretended the preserve the evidence part didn’t exist!

My source;

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@JoyceWhiteVance

Impeachment

Posted: November 15, 2019 in News and politics
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All, I repeat all, of the U.S. intelligence agencies, have concluded that Russia was responsible for the interference in the Trump election and that it was to help Trump. Trump and Putin both are trying to put this on Ukraine, not Russia, but there is no evidence to support this.

When Biden was acting to get the Ukraine top law enforcer ousted, he was following U.S. policy as well as several other European countries and financial institutions! As this person, Victor Shokin, was a corrupt individual and not prosecuting or going after certain bad actors connected to Putin and Russia. We might also make the connection that the ouster of this top law enforcer would increase any investigation into Burisma, not protect them from more scrutiny! So none of the allegations by Trump make any sense! Plus, a President attacking his own Ambassador in a public forum, twitter, is unheard of! I might add that his last tweet about how ineffective she was in all her posts are just ludicrous. She has been in service for over thirty years with a stellar reputation, well thought of by both Democratic and Republican administrations. She was sent into places that had significant problems because of her superior skills, not the other way around! Let’s be plain-spoken here, Trump lies, and that is what all this is based!

Trump hates that he did not win the popular vote in the election or the fact that every intelligence agency in the U.S. has agreed that the influence in that election favored Trump and that Russia was responsible. So not only is he attacking the integrity of his Ambassador but of his intelligence agencies! There is no factual evidence that Ukraine is responsible for this election interference, and according to Trump, was all in favor of Hillary. I was not a Hillary fan for President, but I was not ever for Trump! But I am a comprehensive reader, and all of the fake sites that have been identified were anti-Hillary and pro-Trump! All identified sources came out of Russia; specific names of who were responsible have been uncovered down to the building where they work! Still, work out of, I might add!

So Trump wants to create a false narrative that the election interference was all in favor of Hillary, which means that he would have won the popular vote. He has to find a new source that does include Russia to make that lie stick! Biden’s part in the removal of Victor Shokin was following U.S. policy as well as several European countries and major institutions worried about the corruption of Shokin! Again, this removal of this corrupt law enforcement officer would cause an increase in an investigation of Burisma! But still, Trump is promoting a lie to hurt his most dangerous political foe, which is illegal by any definition.

Forget the phone call for a minute and this whole Ukrainian bucket of bullshite. A President that lies to the American people as Trump does, and easily proven, is an impeachable offense in my opinion! I think the count is over 13,435 over 993 days since people started keeping track. So even if you think these figures are wrong, even if you discount 50%, look at the still horrendous amount of lies you still have! The fact that Trump is blatantly using the office of the Presidency to enrich himself! His hotels where he directs diplomats to hold gatherings, selling overpriced properties to Saudi oligarchs, rerouting military flights so that they would have to stay at one of his overseas properties! Visiting his personal holdings for meetings, and of course, golf, where he charges his security exorbitant fees for services, food, and lodging above the norm!

So if you add this to the fact that Trump has damaged U.S. security by his actions, has tried to influence a country for personal gain, and has lied profusely about these and other activities! He is even now, even today, intimidating an ambassador whose life he placed in danger! He is an embarrassment the world over, ask any of our former allies!