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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 11:39 AM Apr 2019

Rudy Giuliani Sets Trump Up For Impeachment By Admitting Taking Info From Russia

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/21/giuliani-trump-russia-info.html


Posted on Sun, Apr 21st, 2019 by Jason Easley
Rudy Giuliani Sets Trump Up For Impeachment By Admitting Taking Info From Russia

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A Criminal Standard Does Not Apply To Impeachment

Trump and Giuliani are hanging their hat on the criminal standard, but there is no criminal standard for impeachment. There is also no criminal standard at the ballot box. Giuliani’s defense of the Trump campaign talking information from Russia was a total disaster. Rudy put the icing on the cake of the belief that Trump is in Putin’s back pocket.

No other campaign has ever taken information from a hostile foreign power. The Trump campaign should have turned down the info and called law enforcement. The fact that Trump can’t be charged with a crime doesn’t mean that his behavior, or that of his campaign, is not an impeachable offense, and Rudy Giuliani seems to be trying to get Trump impeached.
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Rudy Giuliani Sets Trump Up For Impeachment By Admitting Taking Info From Russia (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2019 OP
Wow! What a complete fucking idiot. jpak Apr 2019 #1
The best criminal defense lawyer ever dalton99a Apr 2019 #2
Eh? How do we know it wasn't deliberate? JustAnotherGen Apr 2019 #3
What's with Tapper and these assholes? thegoose Apr 2019 #4
That Daffy Duck lisp thegoose Apr 2019 #5
Thufferin' thuckotash thegoose Apr 2019 #7
Now deflecting to Obama thegoose Apr 2019 #6
And why didn't the rump campaign turn down the offer of information from the Russians? ... SWBTATTReg Apr 2019 #8
He's normalizing their criminality again. GoCubsGo Apr 2019 #9

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)
3. Eh? How do we know it wasn't deliberate?
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:10 PM
Apr 2019

He might be setting is up to go down a rabbit hole with nothing at the bottom.

 

thegoose

(3,115 posts)
4. What's with Tapper and these assholes?
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:11 PM
Apr 2019

Ratings. But let them sit there and lie. Ghoul knows "everything."

He just deflected to Hillary. Now he's fighting Tapper. Ancient shitbag.

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)
8. And why didn't the rump campaign turn down the offer of information from the Russians? ...
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:20 PM
Apr 2019

That's the ? in my mind. He had a chance to turn the offer down, didn't. And the reason is that he asked for this damaging information from the Russians, and even once publicly did so. How many times did rump ask for this damaging information privately? I bet you at least one time, prior to him publicly asking the Russians for this information.

And don't use the excuse of 'I didn't know it was stolen information!'...how else would the Russians gotten such detailed information? Stolen information. People get convicted of breaking into data bases today (wire fraud, etc.), and stealing information all of the time.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
9. He's normalizing their criminality again.
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:25 PM
Apr 2019

This is standard operating procedure for those assholes. If anyone is shocked by this, they shouldn't be. He was thumbing his nose at us all.

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