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Schiff alleges bribery at 5:55 pm.
After q from @MarkWarner @SenBlumenthal @MartinHeinrich:

@AdamSchiff: "The fact is that the president's conduct violated our bribery laws, as the Founders understood [bribery] & extortion, & violated our modern bribery laws..."

Much clearer.
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"The Nixon impeachment listed acts but did not state crimes. Would the Trump lawyers say that the Nixon articles were infirm unless they stated a criminal charge? That's not a constitutional principle. They want to dictate how to charge offenses. But we decided how to charge."
3/ "Trump lawyers say nothing here is akin to a crime.
Under McDonnell, this would count as bribery, withholding $100s of millions, and no doubt it's akin to bribery.
We could have charged bribery in 2 separate count, but we didn't have to..."
4/ @RepAdamSchiff is saying the House decided not bring a *separate Article* on bribery (Article 3).

He's saying Article 1 alleges facts under "abuse of power," but also constitutional bribery & extortion AND felony bribery.

Good clarity.
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