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High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted by:
Language student
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Date: December 10, 2018 07:54AM
Thanks you for the responses to my "virtue signaling" and "collusion" threads. Little, if any, was on point, but interesting nonetheless. Therefore, we will try one more. The term today is "high crimes and misdemeanors".
Let us say, for the moment, that Barack Obama was alleged by federal prosecutors to have directed a minion to commit a felony violation of the federal campaign laws. Directing, encouraging, etc. someone to commit a felony makes a person an accessory before the fact, which is a felony, and any agreement between two people to commit a felony is conspiracy. If a President is to be impeached, the "case" starts in the House judiciary committee.
You are the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee. (For the sake of discussion, you are in the majority) You personally believe that the campaign finance laws are vague, perhaps to the point of being unenforceable, but you consider Obama to be a cancer on America, and your constituents want you to be very aggressive in getting the SOB out of office.
Again, you are the Republican chairman of the committee. What do you do?
Let us say, for the moment, that Barack Obama was alleged by federal prosecutors to have directed a minion to commit a felony violation of the federal campaign laws. Directing, encouraging, etc. someone to commit a felony makes a person an accessory before the fact, which is a felony, and any agreement between two people to commit a felony is conspiracy. If a President is to be impeached, the "case" starts in the House judiciary committee.
You are the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee. (For the sake of discussion, you are in the majority) You personally believe that the campaign finance laws are vague, perhaps to the point of being unenforceable, but you consider Obama to be a cancer on America, and your constituents want you to be very aggressive in getting the SOB out of office.
Again, you are the Republican chairman of the committee. What do you do?
Re: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted by:
Ummmmm
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Date: December 10, 2018 10:34AM
I ask someone to explain to me how paying off an extortionist is a campaign violation? Further, how is a payment from the candidate to the extortionist considered a campaign contribution? The money is going the wrong way lol.
Re: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted by:
Penpals
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Date: December 10, 2018 10:39AM
Ummmmm Wrote:
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> Further, how
> is a payment from the candidate to the
> extortionist considered a campaign contribution?
You should write to Michael Cohen while he’s in prison and ask him to explain it for all you newbs.
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> Further, how
> is a payment from the candidate to the
> extortionist considered a campaign contribution?
You should write to Michael Cohen while he’s in prison and ask him to explain it for all you newbs.
Re: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted by:
Language student
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Date: December 10, 2018 10:51AM
Folks, you are taking this too literally. The question is quite simple, under the scenario I described,what would you do as the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. We are not talking about Trump, he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and it would be OK.
Re: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted by:
Impeach OBAMA
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Date: December 10, 2018 02:21PM
Impeach him, and then lock him up. Any President who would violate the public trust by committing felony offenses such as conspiracy and whatever else you said should be castrated.