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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly it's inappropriate. I'm not sure if criminal, more sloppy incompetence.

But it's not impeachable, and there is zero chance for the Senate to convict.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being an impeachable high crime and 1 being jaywalking, this is maybe a 6 or 7.[/quote]

The term "high crime" refers to the position of the person doing the crime, not to the type of crime. That said, "bribery" is specified in the Constitution as an impeachable offense. Both by the modern US legal definition and by the definition of the term "bribery" as the authors of the Constitution understood it, the current president and vice president appear to have committed the offense.

Seriously, of perjury about a blowjob is impeachable, how is this not impeachable? What would constitute an impeachable offense in your mind?[/quote]

Good question. Treason. True bribery where the president is personally enriched (Illinois governor selling Senate seats). Nixon level obstruction. Not sleazy incompetence like this.[/quote]

The president is personally enriched every day that someone stays in his hotels, including foreign actors, who have reportedly bought blocks of rooms never used, just to enrich the president. The bribery in this case was for personal gain - manufacturing dirt on a political rival. What about White House employees Jared and Ivanka making $82M last year doing god knows what? What about Jared getting a billion dollar bailout of 666 Park Ave?

Are these things all okay, or not?

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Those sound much worse than for what he is being investigated.[/quote]

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