You mean like the $50,000 that’s going into the biden coffers every month?
It’s illegal to force a government to stop an investigation into a company where your son is working because you unduly influenced that company to give your son a job.
Trump is not the only “authority” in the United States. We have a constitution that was established and agreed by “authorities” older than the Presidency, namely the state governments. That Constitution gives the President executive authority, but it gives Congress legislative authority. Within Congress’s remit is oversight of the executive branch, and it is specifically empowered to impeach and remove a President when it determines he has violated the Constitution.
Look at my post. I ask, not assert. I ask whether and if. You certainly need to check your facts before posting things that are 180 degrees from the truth…
No it isn’t. It is written into the Constitution, which is the same document that created the office of the Presidency. Are you saying that the office is greater than the law that brought it into being?
Yes. Read the Federalist Papers. Our government was not designed to be a biblical monarchy (so what ancient Israelites thought about the sacredness of anointed kingship really has no bearing on whether we can remove a President). In our government, Congress is the superior branch because it is the most democratic branch. If Congress decides the President has broken faith with the people, it can show him the door. This is how the system was designed.
Yes, because impeachment is a political remedy to a politically problematic President. It is not a criminal trial.
Not according to the Constitution. It gives Congress power to impeach both the President and federal judges alike. This was intentional.
No he isn’t. All legislative power is vested in the Congress. It is the authority with vast powers. We only give the President the power to execute the laws that Congress makes. He is only as powerful as Congress wants him to be. They can strip him of a lot of his discretionary power given to him in legislation in a day if they wanted to.
So is Nancy Pelosi and the other members of Congress. So is your local mayor for that matter.
Trump is not an anointed king. He is a President elected by the people and subject to oversight by Congress and the federal courts.
If that’s true, why did it take Biden withholding billions of American dollars for that to happen? Neh. Biden needs to be investigated. The smoke is thick and its coming from him and his son. And not just in the Ukraine.Complete lie.
De_Maria:
For one thing, Ukrainian prosecutors and anti-corruption advocates who were pushing for an investigation into the dealings of Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevskiy, said the probe had been dormant long before Biden leveled his demand.
“There was no pressure from anyone from the United States” to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told Bloomberg News in May. “It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015,” he added.
Activists say the case had been sabotaged by Shokin himself. As an example, they say two months before Hunter Biden joined Burisma’s board, British authorities had requested information from Shokin’s office as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Zlochevskiy. Shokin ignored them.
Kaleniuk and AntAC published a detailed timeline of events surrounding the Burisma case, an outline of evidence suggesting that three consecutive chief prosecutors of Ukraine – first Shokin’s predecessor, then Shokin, and then his successor – worked to bury it.
“Ironically, Joe Biden asked Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case,” Kaleniuk said.
Ukrainian prosecutors have described no evidence indicating that Biden sought to help his son by getting Shokin dismissed – and have suggested that they have not discovered any such evidence.
But there is a long list of Western organizations, governments, and diplomats, as well as Ukrainian anti-corruption groups, that wanted to see Shokin fired.
They include the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, the U.S. government, foreign investors, and Ukrainian advocates of reform.