LMAO Well not only Pelousy, her Dem House and Dems in general have lost their ******* minds.
All the lefty loons on this board have as well.
2020 can't come soon enough. Trump will win and we can all laugh for four more years.
Go Trump.
We see you are frustrated. The first 4 years went pretty well if Trump would just stop saying and doing illegal things you'd be ok.
And if he would fire Rudy and surround him with normal people. But normal people don't float conspiracy theories and break the law for Trump.
Frustrated?? Not on your life. I just find all you lefty loons amusing as hell.
Oh and Trump hasn't broken any laws and Rudy is a great attorney much to your dismay.
Trumps not a politician and never has been nor will he ever be.
He says what he thinks while you keep expecting him to give the political answer.
Sucks to be you.
The Justice Department sparked fresh debate Wednesday about when seeking foreign assistance in an election becomes a federal crime, with officials deciding President Donald Trump did not cross a legal line in his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy now at the center of a Democratic push toward impeachment.
The department said its review of the call — in which Trump asked Ukraine to “do us a favor” and talk to his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr about opening a potential corruption investigation connected to Trump’s main political rival — did not find a “thing of value” that could be quantified as campaign finance law requires.
Opposition research can be a “thing of value” and therefore a potential crime, election law experts said, but the term is not well defined and has not been fully tested in court. Some experts backed the Justice Department view on legal grounds; some didn’t.
“The call readout is damning evidence of criminality and represents Exhibit A that the president abused power by pressuring a foreign government to target an American citizen,”
Asked what crime he thinks Trump violated, Jeffries said: “That will be part of the process that unfolds over the next few weeks from the relevant committees of jurisdiction leading with the Intel Committee.”
Congress can define what rises to impeachable conduct whether or not it fits the statutory definition of a crime
Republicans said they failed to see any crime. Republican Whip
Steve Scalise of Louisiana said, “It is clear that there was absolutely no quid pro quo, and no laws were broken on the call.”
Barr — who some accuse of giving legal cover to the president during the rollout of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation — has not remained as independent from the White House as he indicated he would be during his confirmation hearings.
White House transcript, implying that he thought there were parts missing. “This is not a 30-minute telephone conversation,” the New Jersey Democrat said. “This is Mr. Barr at work again.”
And when it comes to the department’s decision on whether Trump committed a crime, Democrats such as Rep.
Ted Lieu of California, a member of the Judiciary Committee, don’t express faith in Barr’s independence.
“What is disappointing to me is with Bill Barr as the head of DOJ it appears that he has completely lost all independence and is now simply a mouthpiece for their president,” Lieu said. “It’s very clear that if a foreign government can manufacture dirt on a political opponent that that could be of potentially incalculable high value. So the DOJ’s legal reason is stupid.”
“The decision by the Department of Justice is incorrect, and not surprising given that President Trump controls the Department of Justice,” Ryan said.
Common Cause filed a complaint Tuesday with DOJ and the Federal Election Commission, stemming from the phone call.
Common Cause alleged that Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and other political operatives illegally solicited a political contribution from a foreign national.
Ryan acknowledged the unprecedented nature of such a case and a lack of relevant case law but said that’s “because we’ve never had a president ask a foreign national for oppo research that we know of.”
He added that even if prosecutors may not be able to indict a sitting president, that wouldn’t apply to Giuliani, whom Trump referenced on the call as a go-between.