Thread by @MontyBoa99

@SpeakerPelosi It's time, Madam Speaker.

The Constitution enumerates the following as impeachable:

1. Treason
2. Bribery
3. High crimes
4. Misdemeanors

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@SpeakerPelosi #1 used to mean working for a wartime enemy. But the Rosenbergs were executed without one.

#2 = Graft, including selling foreign policy.
a. The Trumps received $millions in trademarks from China; POUTS then interfered in judgments vs Huawei and ZTE
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@SpeakerPelosi #2b.
i. RU oligarchs made hefty inauguration fund contrib'ns.

{2 years later}

ii. The Senate lifts sanctions vs Oleg Deripaska.

iii. Deripaska immediately announces he's bringing jobs to McConnell and Paul's state. (McConnell is up for reelection.)

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@SpeakerPelosi 2c. Kushner's loan refi for 666 5th Ave:

i. Qatar refuses his pleas
ii. POUTS joins a Saudi blockade of Qatar w/in 30 days
iii. Qatar lends the money via Canadian entity
iv. Blockade mysteriously lifted

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@SpeakerPelosi #3. High crimes:
- 10 x obstruction of justice
- Viol'ns of multiple treaties
- Usurping Congress's authority to control the purse
- Wholesale defiance of subpoenas
- Rampant human rights abuses
- Failure to "execute the laws"
- Defrauding the United States
- Breach of oath

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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors:
- Appointing incompetents
- Favoring loyalty over compliance with the law (e.g. Hatch Act viol'ns by KA Conway, SH Sanders, firing Comey, Sessions)
- Tolerating corruption (Price, Pruitt, Zinke..)
- Culture of lying
- Misuse of advisors
- Misuse of pos'n
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (cont.):
- Failure to comply w/ rules to ensure lawful, efficient gov't (e.g. botched Muslim Ban impl'm'n)
- Inept administr'n (failure to improve immigr'n processes and capacity in prep for Zero Tolerance Policy)
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G/

@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (cont.):
- Extortion of Congress by jeopardizing health, safety and welfare of outgroups
- Policies, rhetoric spurring division rather than unity
- Inciting violence vs outgroups (encouraging violent treatment of criminals, dissenters at rallies)
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H/

@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (cont.)
- Misappropriation of funds
. Illegal use of funds from other critical DoD programs to fund wall constr'n
. Same, from vital research, health, safety pgms to fund incarceration of immigrant detainees
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (cont.)
- Likely fraud: Awarding no-bid contracts to inauguration fund donors, e.g. for-profit prison co's for immigrant detention facilities
- Arbitrarily attempting to deter immigration via harsh and conspicuous mistreatment of illegal immigrants
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J/

@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (cont.)
- Recategorizing illegal border crossing as a "crime" requiring detention
- Allowing contracted for-profit prison co's to charge full fees for detainees while not providing contracted services such as floorspace, beds, food, and medical supplies
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K/

@SpeakerPelosi Add'ns to #3. High Crimes:
- Failure to ID, correct and sanction fraud in Puerto Rico recovery contract of Whitefish Energy or for-profit prison co's failure to provide contracted services for immigrant detention
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L/

@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- Failure to comply w/ Federal Records Act to document and preserve records of major mtgs, decisions
- Use of unsecured devices and applications that allow foreign adversaries to monitor comm'ns, in viol'n of reg's
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M/

@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- Use of means to prevent US counterintel and law enforcement from monitoring comm'ns with foreign adversaries (Kushner and Manafort's secret meetings w/ sanctioned RU officials, JK's request for RU Embassy comm'ns equip use, encrypted comm'ns)
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N/

@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- Usurping authority of Congress to make and break treaties: w/drawal from the TPP, Paris Climate Accord, JCPOA Iran Nuclear Non-Prolif'n Agreement

- Waste of gov't resources: Replacing NAFTA with a virtual clone for political theater
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O/

@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- Directing Cabinet Officers to take actions that undermine the missions of their agencies, in violation of the statutes that created those agencies
- A repeated pattern of knowingly directing others to violate the law

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@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- A repeated pattern of engaging outside parties to conduct federal business in order to avoid oversight & other controls built into federal statutes & regulations
- A repeated pattern of disguising personally-beneficial activities as "diplomacy"
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (maladministr'n add'ns)
- A repeated pattern of attempting actions by Executive Order known by him to be unconstitutional
- A repeated pattern of concealing, and then denying culpability for, actions he knew to be illegal
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (maladmin. add'ns)
- Directing or approving of the Dept of Justice's failure to defend established laws in lawsuits (e.g. the Affordable Care Act), contrary to their mission
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@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
- Undermining regulatory enforcem't by canceling investig'ns, dropping lawsuits, and redirecting agency activity
- Undermining citizens' health, safety & rights by rolling back reg'l'ns
- Placing corporate benefactors' interests before the nation's
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (add'ns)
- Unsuitability of temperament, incl. lack of focus and discipline, as evidenced by:
. Easy provocation to anger
. Hyperattentiveness to trivial matters
. Frequent reversals of prior commitments, positions, and actions
. Vindictiveness
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (Incompetence, add'ns)
- Inability to learn required basic knowledge, such as:
. What the Bill of Rights is and does
. Which Const'l Amendments are which
. The co-equality of the federal gov't branches
. Congress's role in legislating, oversight & funding
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V/

@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (add'ns)
- Unsuitability of temperament, incl. lack of integrity, e.g.:
. Applying double standards to himself, opponents & allies
. A pattern of pathological lying (approx 70% of public statements are half-truths or worse)
. Evading accountability
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@SpeakerPelosi #1. Treason (add'ns)
Facilitating Russian hostile acts:
- Repeated denials of RU cyberattacks, other ops to alter the 2016 election results ("would/wouldn't" speech fiasco)
- Actions favoring Russian interests
- Blocking/reversing deterrence actions
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@SpeakerPelosi #1. Treason (add'ns)
Deliberately jeopardizing national security interests:
- Egregious Nat'l Sec clearance procedure viol'ns
- Sharing highly sensitive intel with Russians, thus jeopardizing an ally's intel assets and reducing all allies' willingness to cooperate w/ US
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Y/

@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (add'ns)
Unsuitability of temperament, incl. misogyny:
- Repeated personal verbal attacks on women
§ Slights on appearance
§ References to bodily functions
- Failure to appoint women to significant positions
- Dozens of credible allegations of assault
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@SpeakerPelosi #4. Misdemeanors (add'ns)
Unsuitability of temperament, incl. racism:
- Heavy bias in targeted verbal attacks vs non-whites, especially Latinx and African Americans
- Insulting, personal verbal attacks vs non-whites
- Arbitrarily characterizing non-whites as unpatriotic
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@SpeakerPelosi #3. High Crimes (add'ns)
Attacks on First Amendment rights of the press, incl.:
- Arbitrary declarations that accurate reporting and accomplished news org'ns are "fake news" to undermine their credibility
- Attempting to deny reporters access
- Insulting reporters
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