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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types (that's *types*, not instances) of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Yet he omitted:
- Suborning federal agencies for personal benefit
- Misuse of position to direct employees for [same]
- Contravening many agency's missions
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types (that's *types*, not instances) of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Yet he omitted:
- Crippling gov't agencies, e.g. defunding, disbanding or failing to hire, esp. watchdogs
- Usurping Congressional powers of war, treaty & purse
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types (that's *types*, not instances) of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Yet he omitted:
- Conspiring with GOP Senate leadership to appoint:
☛ Ineffective/subversive nominees
☛ Incompetent, biased judges
- Misusing his position to promote favored co's
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types (that's *types*, not instances) of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Yet he omitted:

- Appointing a partisan Attorney General to effect his personal defense, subvert investigations, and attack his opponents

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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Some he omitted:
- Engaging in graft for sweetheart deals (e.g. Inauguration Fund donat'ns for no-bid for-profit prison contracts)
- Wasting military resources (border "defense")
- Misappropriation of funds (wall)
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add'l:
- Engaging in a fruitless confrontation with China, and then wasting taxpayer funds to bail out friendly sectors while ignoring others
- Weakening military capability (defunding critical defense pgms)

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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add'l:
- Compromising nat'l security:
☛ 25+ high-risk NatSec clearance overrides
☛ Leaking classif'd intel
☛ Revealing sources
☛ Evading monitoring
☛ Encouraging tyrants' oppression of democracies, allies
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add'l:
- Using a covert operation to manipulate US public opinion (Ukraine, DNC, Crowdstrike, Biden hoaxes)
- Weakening US diplomatic influence and military power by abruptly and arbitrarily abandoning commitments
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists 39 types of POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add'l:
- Being an accessory to war crimes:
☛ Abandoning Kurdish allies to be slaughtered, despite strong and repeated warnings
☛ Enabling the resurgence of attacks on Syrian civilians, by both Assad and Russia
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add:
- Toxic Policies:
☛ Zero Tolerance:
• Deported asylum seekers murdered on return
• Neglected detainees die in custody
☛ Obamacare sabotage:
• Deaths from denied treatment, unaffordability
☛ Pollution tolerance
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@waltshaub Walter Shaub lists POUTS's impeachable offenses.
Add:
- Inciting violence:
☛ Encouraging attacks on dissenters at rallies
☛ Encouraging violent attacks / stochastic terrorism on opponents (e.g. the MAGABomber), the press (threats/ assaults on CNN staff), and witnesses

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@waltshaub If you'd like a list of 115 of POUTS's impeachable offenses that was written *before* #Ukrainegate (which has added at least 9 more), try:

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