House Judiciary Committee report accuses Trump of crimes not included in the articles of impeachment

  Earlier today the House Judiciary Committee released its report on the House impeachment inquiry and according to this article the report accuses Donald Trump of bribery and fraud. Here is more:

The report, released Monday ahead of Wednesday’s anticipated vote on impeachment, accuses Trump of violating 18 U.S.C. § 201 — federal criminal bribery — because he “demanded” an announcement of investigations, which the report describes as a thing of “value.” In return, the report alleges, the president was influenced in his performance of official acts. (The report disagrees with recent Supreme Court precedent that a “meeting” is not an “official act.”) In addition, the report rejects that there was “any public purpose” associated with Trump’s request for investigations.

Moreover, the Judiciary Committee report adds a new, previously undebated crime — namely, honest services fraud: “In addition to committing the crime of bribery, President Trump knowingly and willfully orchestrated a scheme to defraud the American people of his honest services as President of the United States. In doing so, he betrayed his position of trust and the duty he owed the citizenry to be an honest fiduciary of their trust,” the report declares.

  Bribery and fraud are some serious charges and if they are true Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Oddly enough, however, these are not charges because they are not included in the articles of impeachment. In fact there are no crimes listed in the article of impeachment. Do you find it as strange as I do that crimes which are impeachable offences are listed in the impeachment report but not in the actual articles of impeachment themselves?

  I believe the Democrats know they are on shaky ground with impeachment so they are trying to make what they are doing seem more justifiable with the American people by making it look worse for Donald Trump than it really is, but in reality they have no proof of these accusations, they just made them up, so they cannot bring these charges against the President.

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