Impeachment – What Is the Underlying Crime?

President Donald J. Trump addresses his remarks to the Economic Club of New York Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

In the impeachment banality, or what the WSJ refers to as the “constitutional bazooka,” Democrats are no longer calling it a “quid pro quo.”

Which means, the WSJ contends, “quid pro quo” must not have played well in polling.

Instead (Democrats) are using “extortion” and “bribery” to suggest a crime without citing any specific statute.

The Justice Department has already dismissed the bribery claim because there was no “thing of value” exchanged.

And the extortion charge is absurd regarding U.S. aid to a foreign government.

Rather than searching for truth, “Democrats are turning impeachment into another partisan banality, and the country won’t be better for it.”

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.

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