category of crimes based on historical practice that we would be sufficient to remove the president from office based upon impeachment history that we ve had for 240 years. it has got to be both. my shorthand way of looking at this, well-founded articles of impeachment would have to demonstrate that there has been the commission of treason, bribery or other crime in this demeanor. as well as an abusive crime. they will not tell me what crimes. i rattle them off before, it s not treason, last time i checked ukraine as an ally. it is not that one. treason is ridiculous. that is surface for all about five seconds. then, there is bribery but it does not apply to foreign government officials as a bribery statue would be construed. it is not that one.
category of crimes based on historical practice that we would be sufficient to remove the president from office based upon impeachment history that we ve had for 240 years. it has got to be both. my shorthand way of looking at this, well-founded articles of impeachment would have to demonstrate that there has been the commission of treason, bribery or other crime in this demeanor. as well as an abusive crime. they will not tell me what crimes. i rattle them off before, it s not treason, last time i checked ukraine as an ally. it is not that one. treason is ridiculous. that is surface for all about five seconds. then, there is bribery but it does not apply to foreign government officials as a bribery statue would be construed. it is not that one.
at first. you offer up four crimes at the outset of your piece there, and i ll offer up another one, federal bribery. i ve been jumping up and down for months, as you know, writing op-eds and tweeting out that federal bribery statue, 15-year offense, criminalizes a this for that exchange. dirt on hillary in exchange for a promise to lift or reduce sanctions on russians, that is a classic quid pro quo. as you and i talked about in the past, because that bribery statue has that unique language that makes it applicable to people sworn into office and candidates, it puts it right in the whole house of this meeting. and that hammer of the 15-year penalty is far greater than conspiracies to defraud the united states or election campaign finance violations. and that s the kind of hammer federal bribery, and it can be a predicate for reco, on a services fraud, even 20-year offenses. that s the kind of crime federal