Democrats accused President Trump of quid pro quo for allegedly withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigations into the crooked Bidens. They changed this charge briefly to “extortion” before settling on “bribery” because a focus group liked it the best. This was the basis for the democrats impeachment/coup efforts but as they get ready to announce their articles of impeachment against President Trump, bribery is nowhere to be found. In other words, democrats have abandoned the reason why they began the impeachment proceedings in the first place.
Fox News brings this pathetic thing:
House Democrats are preparing to announce at least two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday, Fox News has learned.
The articles of impeachment will focus on obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, but all details aren’t settled yet, Fox News is told. A markup session by the Judiciary Committee to prepare the articles would come either Wednesday or Thursday.
Notably absent from the planned charges was a “bribery” count. Democrats had repeatedly accused the president of essentially bribing Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, and even floated the idea of drafting an article of impeachment to that effect. But, it quickly emerged that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had conducted focus groups to determine that Democrats should use the term “bribery” purely for political benefit, even as legal experts disputed whether Trump had bribed anyone.
So the reason why they said they had to impeach Trump is gone and yet they are still moving forward with the impeachment. That’s dumb even by liberal standards.
“Abuse of power” means they are accusing Trump of doing something that is outside the powers assigned to him by the Constitution. Without a quid pro quo/extortion/bribery charge the Ukraine phone call is nothing but President Trump conducting foreign policy, which is definitely within his authority.
Examples of abuse of power would be if a president created laws through executive action, weaponized his cabinet against his political opponents, spied on American citizens without a warrant, committed the U.S. to foreign treaties without Congressional approval, or gave pallets of cash to our enemy. Obama did these things, but all President Trump did was engage in normal foreign policy.
The obstruction of Congress charge is even sillier considering that democrats froze Trump out from defending himself the entire time they conducted their sham impeachment inquiry. He never refused to participate in this farce because he wasn’t invited to. He didn’t ignore a Congressional subpoena, he didn’t refuse to turn over documents, and he didn’t interfere with an investigation in any way. In fact, Trump was very forthcoming, releasing the transcript of the Ukraine call that democrats based their entire case against him on.
This is the House democrats charging Trump with failing to participate in proceedings that they banned him from participating in. And yes, that’s as dumb as it sounds.
Democrats spent the past couple of months of accusing President Trump of extorting or bribing Ukraine in exchange for a Biden investigation. The lack of a bribery article of impeachment shows what a complete load of crap this entire impeachment inquiry has been. The 2 articles of impeachment they plan on rolling out are not only baseless, but completely unrelated to the original purpose of the impeachment.
