Originally Posted by couchgrouch
Yeah...

...you've got plenty of posts on this topic and familiarity with the Democrats' case, yet you've provided no evidence of a crime. You should be a pundit for CNN.

Nixon's impending impeachment caused him to resign. The crime? A bunch of guys broke into the Democratic office at the Watergate Hotel.

Burglary is a crime.

In clear, succinct terms, quote the transcript verbatim, then quote verbatim the law it broke. You can't do it. Schiff can't do it.

There's no predicating crime.



Nobody cares if I can and more importantly Schiff doesn't have to. There doesn't have to be a crime. "What’s a high crime? It doesn’t even have to be a crime. It’s just when you start using your office and you’re acting in a way that hurts people, you’ve committed a high crime.” Lindsey Graham in 1999.

You were probably too young at the time to remember it, but here's one from Justice Joseph Story in 1833, “There are many offences, purely political, which have been held to be within the reach of parliamentary impeachments, not one of which is, in the slightest manner, alluded to in the statute books.” (That's the way they spelled offenses back then)

As it happens, there does seem to have been at least one crime, at least according to the Government Accountability Office, which found that withholding the funds from Ukraine violated the Impoundment Control Act. This was one of the things that worried staffers in the White House and caused them to report their concerns.

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