Trump's brazen acts an invitation to impeachment

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By Eugene Robinson

The Washington Post

I get my felonies mixed up. Was President Trump committing bribery, if he offered the Ukrainian president $250 million in foreign aid in exchange for an investigation to smear potential Democratic nominee Joe Biden? Or would that be considered extortion?

It doesn’t matter. The real question is whether now, finally, the House of Representatives will perform its constitutional duty to hold Trump accountable. At this point, the president is practically begging for impeachment. Give it to him, already.

Look, this is not a close call. According to published reports about a whistleblower complaint — which the administration outrageously refuses to share with Congress — Trump, in a July phone call, badgered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to investigate Biden. Trump also withheld the military aid funds, which Ukraine desperately needs.

Without a transcript of the call, it is impossible to know whether the proffer of a quid pro quo — I’ll release the aid if you throw mud on my potential election rival — was explicit or merely implied. But it’s clearly there, and it’s the kind of message federal agents are accustomed to overhearing in the wiretapped conversations of organized crime bosses: You play ball with me, I’ll play ball with you, we both get what we want, and nobody has to get hurt.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Today is the day!

[Dan]

2. We have to keep in mind,

Trump and his supporters will doctor the evidence. So you have to question any documents that they provide.

I hope that the Speaker decides to include all actions of Trumps - everything he has done or failed to do - as part of the Impeachment Inquiry/Process.

I think that there is something about Pardons not being allowed to prevent an impeachment. I need to look into that, but I hope that it prevents Trump from giving pardons to all the supporters of his behavior, mostly definitely BARR.

[lagomorph777]

3. An impeachment is separate from legal prosecution. Pardons are not relevant.

Unless, of course, the pardon itself is done with corrupt intent, and becomes additional grounds for impeachment.