House Democrats have upped the ante in the impeachment inquiry. President Donald Trump’s efforts to make security assistance to Ukraine contingent on politically useful probes, they suggest, are a violation of criminal bribery law.
“The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections,” said House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) at a press conference on Thursday. “That’s bribery.”
Weighing in on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that “it wouldn’t matter if it was Joe Biden or Joe Blow” who was at the center of the …read more
Source:: Reason.com
