House Intelligence Committee chair turned House impeachment manager Adam Schiff tried to pull a fast one Wednesday by accusing President Donald Trump of "Bribery" and "Extortion."
"[W]e think there is a crime here of bribery or extortion, conditioning official acts for personal favors; that is bribery, it's also what the founders understood as extortion," he said while trying to rebut an argument from the president's legal team that only actual criminal acts such as bribery are impeachable offenses.
Adam Schiff just said House Dems' case is about bribery.
"If this were a criminal trial in an ordinary court and Mr. Schiff had done what he just did on the floor here, and start talking about crimes of bribery and extortion that were not in the indictment, it would've been an automatic mistrial," Philbin said.
"I have to tell you - I don't believe [Democrats] have made out a case for bribery either under the modern definition or how the framers understood it," liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley opined in November, about a month before the articles were filed.
Patrick Philbin points out if this was a real court and Schiff did that, it would be dismissed as a mistrial.
Rep. Adam Schiff said President Trump could have been charged with bribery, but "Abuse of power is the highest crime": "The important point is that we charged a Constitutional crime - the most serious crime".
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/01/30/trump-counsel-torches-desperate-schiff-for-adding-allegations-against-trump-that-werent-in-articles-881086
"[W]e think there is a crime here of bribery or extortion, conditioning official acts for personal favors; that is bribery, it's also what the founders understood as extortion," he said while trying to rebut an argument from the president's legal team that only actual criminal acts such as bribery are impeachable offenses.
Adam Schiff just said House Dems' case is about bribery.
"If this were a criminal trial in an ordinary court and Mr. Schiff had done what he just did on the floor here, and start talking about crimes of bribery and extortion that were not in the indictment, it would've been an automatic mistrial," Philbin said.
"I have to tell you - I don't believe [Democrats] have made out a case for bribery either under the modern definition or how the framers understood it," liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley opined in November, about a month before the articles were filed.
Patrick Philbin points out if this was a real court and Schiff did that, it would be dismissed as a mistrial.
Rep. Adam Schiff said President Trump could have been charged with bribery, but "Abuse of power is the highest crime": "The important point is that we charged a Constitutional crime - the most serious crime".
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/01/30/trump-counsel-torches-desperate-schiff-for-adding-allegations-against-trump-that-werent-in-articles-881086
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