Emails and texts regarding members of the Trump campaign meeting with Russians. They lied about meeting the Russians as well.
As a US citizen, I care what sort of legal arguments the President makes in court. That this President believes he is entirely above the law is deeply concerning to me.
I didn't say the House investigation was exactly like a grand jury, I said it was akin to one, in that it is part of the investigative phase of the inquiry. With the Nixon and Clinton impeachments, a special prosecutor carried out the investigative phase, and did so largely "in secret". Since Trump's DoJ declined to conduct an investigation, it fell to the House to do it, and that's exactly what they're doing. Once the investigative phase is finished, the impeachment will move on to the next phase which will be a public process and contain all the more familiar elements you're calling for.
And I'm sure at that point you and the other members of Team Trump will drop the whole "it's all secret" thing and move on to whining about something else, because if you had your way, none of this would ever have been investigated in the first place.
Um.....yeah.....never mind that Trump not only clearly did what he's accused of.....never mind that he did it again in plain sight......never mind that his Chief of Staff said they do this sort of thing "all the time".....it's all those pesky Democrats' fault!!!
I mean, what exactly is your real argument here? Do you think it's just fine for a President to use aid to pressure another country to do him personal political favors? Do you think it's just fine for a President to put his personal lawyer at the point on foreign policy (and in doing so that lawyer ends up working with some very, very shady characters)? Do you think no one should ever have investigated this whole thing in the first place?
How could he pressure a country, when it´s, president didn´t even know it had been temporarily withheld ?
It is quid pro quo, not quid pro 0.
Ukraine was highly involved in the election tampering of 2016, Zalesky and Trump signed a pact to root out corruption in Ukraine and in America where it is related.
A vice presidents son was being paid $50,000 per month, to be on the board of a corrupt oil company, with no experience in the industry, and only attended four meetings a year. His father is happily on the record for a quid pro quo, fire someone in your country I want fired, or you get no aid.
The president has every right to look into possible corruption by Americans overseas, and certainly there is at least a prima facie case that the whole thing should be looked into.
Do you think being a candidate exempts you and your family being looked at because what you have done stinks ? Trump got the treatment real good when he was a candidate.
It is not at all unprecedented for the president to use a private person for specific tasks, yes, even his lawyer.
Giuliani virtually obliterated the mafia in NY as a federal prosecutor, who better to go to Ukraine to assess the corruption there, and American involvement in it ? Yes, I know from experience that investigations can put you in contact with shady characters.
What you don´t seem to understand is that an impeachment inquiry should be done by the vote of the house, be public, allow both parties to call witnesses, and have the president represented.
Having an impeachment inquiry under these conditions, to then have an impeachment inquiry properly after, is totally unprecedented and totally unfair to the American people.
Trying to reverse an election by the people requires the people be involved. They are not either by their representatives, or by their observation of what is occurring.
This should be handled in the judiciary committee as precedent dictates. If classified information arises, which hasn´t happened in the star chamber apparently, it can be heard en camera.
The whole purpose of the intelligence committee being used is to screen the proceedings from the people.
What do I want? open to the public proceedings, established precedent to be followed.