The Impeachment Trial

[lilpixieofterror]

By withholding Congressionally appropriated funding until the Ukrainian president did Trump's bidding, Trump attempted to use a foreign government to influence the 2020 election. In doing so, he committed the highest crime: he attempted to deprive the people of the United States of their right to a free and fair election. This was established by the testimony of the House witnesses and would have been reinforced by the first-hand evidence of Bolton - i.e. if TRUTH was of any interest to the Senate or Trump's minion, McConnell..

[firstfloor]

This TIME article explains the origins and meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors:
Note that statutory crimes are unnecessary for impeachment.
https://time.com/5745616/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors/

[Mountain Man]

This TIME article explains the origins and meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors:
Note that statutory crimes are unnecessary for impeachment.
https://time.com/5745616/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors/

Right, liberals have been working very hard to push the narrative that when our Founding Fathers said that a president could be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors", they really didn't mean high crimes and misdemeanors. Liberals have only latched onto this because they know that President Trump is not guilty of any crimes, so they're trying to establish the very dangerous precedent that an innocent man can be impeached and removed from office, and we should all be grateful that it appears the scheme will fail.

[JimL]

Right, liberals have been working very hard to push the narrative that when our Founding Fathers said that a president could be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors", they really didn't mean high crimes and misdemeanors. Liberals have only latched onto this because they know that President Trump is not guilty of any crimes, so they're trying to establish the very dangerous precedent that an innocent man can be impeached and removed from office, and we should all be grateful that it appears the scheme will fail.

Tell me this, MM, could a president be impeached if he decided to take a year or two off to relax and play golf, or basically to shirk the responsibilities of the office?

[Cow Poke]

Tell me this, MM, could a president be impeached if he decided to take a year or two off to relax and play golf, or basically to shirk the responsibilities of the office?

Jim, a President can be impeached for farting, if there is a crazy enough partisan group of people in the House who hated him that much.

[lilpixieofterror]

Tell me this, MM, could a president be impeached if he decided to take a year or two off to relax and play golf, or basically to shirk the responsibilities of the office?

[Cow Poke]

This TIME article explains the origins and meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors:

Perhaps Nancy should have made THEM House Managers instead of the lying little shifty Schiff?

[JimL]

Jim, a President can be impeached for farting, if there is a crazy enough partisan group of people in the House who hated him that much.

So you admit then that the commiting of an actual crime is not what is meant by "abuse of power?"

[firstfloor]

Right, liberals have been working very hard to push the narrative that when our Founding Fathers said that a president could be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors", they really didn't mean high crimes and misdemeanors. Liberals have only latched onto this because they know that President Trump is not guilty of any crimes, so they're trying to establish the very dangerous precedent that an innocent man can be impeached and removed from office, and we should all be grateful that it appears the scheme will fail.

It seems that the devil himself has anointed you with his blood.

[Cow Poke]

So you admit then that the commiting of an actual crime is not what is meant by "abuse of power?"

Jim, you're really not smart enough to play these "let's try to trap somebody" games. I said what I said. And you're incredibly bad at accurately summarizing somebody else's statement.

[lilpixieofterror]

It seems that the devil himself has anointed you with his blood.

Been watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix?

[Mountain Man]

Tell me this, MM, could a president be impeached if he decided to take a year or two off to relax and play golf, or basically to shirk the responsibilities of the office?

I think a reasonable case could be made that this would fall under the crime of dereliction of duty since the president is the head of our nation's military.

[Mountain Man]

It seems that the devil himself has anointed you with his blood.

I am washed by the blood of Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead so that I might share in his victory over sin and death.

[lilpixieofterror]

I am washed by the blood of Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead so that I might share in his victory over sin and death.

I think he was thinking of his own baptism that or the one from that weird Netflix show.

[Mountain Man]

House manager Val Demings argues: "Innocent people don't try to hide every document & witness, especially those that would clear them. That's what guilty people do. Innocent people do everything they can to clear their name & provide evidence that shows that they are innocent."

This is formally known as a kafkatrap and is one step away from "Comrade, surely you won't mind if we read all of your personal correspondence. After all, an innocent man has nothing to hide."