woodguru wrote:
Barr has a range of potential charges, an obvious one being the way he tried to subvert the law and cover up the whistleblower report and keep it from the house and senate...that one is cut and dried
Then there is the fact that regardless of trump being acquitted, the senate on the whole admitted that dems had proven he (illegally) withheld aid...this opens an array of illegal acts by half a dozen people who conspired to subvert the funding congress authorized. This would take a special investigator since Barr has proven he will not look into anything that makes the president look bad.
The DOJ should have had a strong and active role in this, and it ain't over until it's over.
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The senate DID NOT "on the whole" admit that dems had proven president Trump withheld aid and the HOR investigation NEVER proved he did, otherwise the majority of the senators would not have voted this travesty down.
It was the maniacs in the HOR who covered up the whistleblower report and kept it from the house and senate. In fact, the whistleblower violated the ICIG protocols for filing a complaint and instead contacted a member of Schiff's staff. It all went down hill from there.
On April 21, 2019, President Zelensky and his administration took the reins of the Ukraine government. President Trump called him on that day to congratulate him.
On, July 25, 2019, President Trump called Zelensky to discuss corruption in the Ukrainian government that had serious consequences for the national security of both the United States and Ukraine. The Ukrainian gas company Burisma, long under the spot lights for corruption, is the focal point of this issue.
Burisma Founder Under Investigation For Embezzlement Of Over $30 MillionAt the time of that "impeachable" phone call, Zelensky's administration was still in transition, neither he nor anyone in his administration was aware of any freeze on US military aid and president Trump never mentioned it during the call.
Therefore, if Zelensky did not know that the aid package had been frozen and Trump never mentioned it, and since the military aid was delivered on time and no immediate investigation into corruption ensued, then explain how president Trump could "subvert the funding congress authorized" and use this aid package as leverage to bribe, coerce, blackmail, or otherwise strong arm a foreign leader into doing his bidding.
The notion that president Trump ever considered Joe Biden a viable opponent is ludicrous. Biden can't fill a Starbucks let alone an auditorium. Biden blew it big time in Iowa. Three strikes, he's OUT!
President Trump never lost a wink of sleep over that boozer's chances.
Even though I know it will make no difference to leftist constitutional illiterates, I'll try this again.
The Department of Justice is a Cabinet level department within the Executive Branch. The DOJ administers and enforces federal civil and criminal law, it works with the president in carrying out its duties, not against him. The Department of Justice has no jurisdiction or role to play in a political process such as impeachment of a president which is solely within the powers of the Legislative Branch.
Article I, Section 2, paragraph 5 -
the House of Representatives . . . shall have the SOLE power of impeachment.
Article I, Section 3, paragraph 6 -
The Senate shall have the SOLE power to try all impeachments . . . IOW, the DOJ cannot under any circumstance conduct an investigation into any aspect of an impeachment proceeding. Any issue that may arise AFTER an impeachment in the HOUSE and a trial in the SENATE has concluded must be taken up by the Supreme Court --- the Judicial Branch.
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