, 5 tweets, 4 min read
.@AriMelber says congressional Democrats have not yet outlined a focused case on an offense to impeach President Trump.
Here's why he thinks bribery might be the president's clearest impeachable offense (1/5)
@AriMelber In the past Congress has used more than one article to impeach a president, but the Senate only needs one to convict. (2/5)
@AriMelber Only two crimes are specifically mentioned in the impeachment clause of the Constitution.
The bribery offense is an argument that many Democrats aren't making yet, and according to @AriMelber, it's "staring them in the face." (3/5)
@AriMelber "An official can actually be guilty of bribery by merely agreeing to do something. That is enough. They don't have to actually do it...the Supreme Court ruled that unanimously in a recent case," @AriMelber says (4/5)
@AriMelber .@AriMelber considers the president's defenses: "Even as defenses, [they] admit the actions at the heart of Donald Trump's Ukraine scandal and then they sort of argue that impeachment is just too strong a punishment" (5/5) #NBCNewsThreads
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