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WASHINGTON — Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the
House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on
history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument
over the case against President Donald Trump's actions toward
Ukraine.

The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out
the formal charges against the president, which are being
drafted ahead of votes, possibly as soon as next week. Instead,
the report refutes Trump's criticism of the impeachment
proceedings, arguing that the Constitution created impeachment
as a “safety valve” so Americans would not have to wait for the
next election to remove a president.

It refers to the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
and others to link Trump's actions in his July phone call with
Ukraine's president seeking political investigations of his
rivals to the kind of behavior that would “horrify” the framers.

“Where the President uses his foreign affairs power in ways that
betray the national interest for his own benefit, or harm
national security for equally corrupt reasons, he is subject to
impeachment by the House,” the Democrats wrote. “Indeed, foreign
interference in the American political system was among the
gravest dangers feared by the Founders of our Nation and the
Framers of our Constitution.”

Democrats are working through the weekend as articles are being
drafted and committee members are preparing for a hearing
Monday. Democrats say Trump abused his power in a July 25 phone
call when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a
favor and engaged in bribery by withholding nearly $400 million
in military aide that Ukraine depends on to counter Russian
aggression.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's part of a troubling pattern of
behavior from Trump that benefits Russia and not the U.S.

Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong. “Witch Hunt!”the
president tweeted Saturday morning.

The articles of impeachment are likely to encompass two major
themes — abuse of office and obstruction — as Democrats strive
to reach the Constitution's bar of “treason, bribery or other
high crimes and misdemeanors.''

In releasing his report Saturday, Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-
N.Y., said the president's actions are the framers' “worst
nightmare."

“President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national
security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain.
The Constitution details only one remedy for this misconduct:
impeachment,” Nadler said in a statement. “The safety and
security of our nation, our democracy, and future generations
hang in the balance if we do not address this misconduct. In
America, no one is above the law, not even the President.”

The report released Saturday is an update of similar reports
issued during the Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton impeachments
and lays out the justification for articles under consideration,
including abuse of power, bribery and obstruction.

It does not lay out the facts of the Ukraine case, but it hints
at potential articles of impeachment and explains the thinking
behind Democrats' decision to draft them. Without frequently
mentioning Trump, it alludes to his requests that Ukraine
investigate Democrats, a move he believed would benefit him
politically, by saying a president who "perverts his role as
chief diplomat to serve private rather than public ends" has
unquestionably engaged in the high crimes and misdemeanors laid
out in the Constitution. That is true "especially" if he invited
rather than opposed foreign interference, the report says.

The report examines treason, bribery, serious abuse of power,
betrayal of the national interest through foreign entanglements
and corruption of office and elections. Democrats have been
focused on an overall abuse of power article, with the
possibility of breaking out a separate, related article on
bribery. They are also expected to draft at least one article on
obstruction of Congress, or obstruction of justice.

In laying out the grounds for impeachable offenses, the report
directly refutes several of the president's claims in a section
called "fallacies about impeachment," including that the inquiry
is based on secondhand evidence, that a president can do what he
wants to do, and that Democrats' motives are corrupt.

"The President’s honesty in an impeachment inquiry, or his lack
thereof, can thus shed light on the underlying issue," the
report says.

In pushing ahead with the impeachment inquiry, Democrats are
bringing the focus back to Russia.

Okay there we go. That's enough bullshit. Full circle back to
the Russia lies again.

Nancy Pelosi was there when Obama and Hillary Clinton sold the
rights of uranium to Russia.

Go jump off the Golden Gate Bridge Nancy. Your political career
is over and in the shitter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/house- impeachment-report-looks-abuse-bribery-corruption-n1097711

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