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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (419397)	10/3/2019 11:05:53 AM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

Coming soon to Infowars -- the president suggests the US trade deficit with China is somehow linked to Hunter Biden's business dealings in the country. Trump on the former US ambassador to Ukraine: "I heard very bad things about her. And I don't know if I recalled her, or somebody recalled her." pic.twitter.com/H1GJgG6Ztk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 3, 2019

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (419397)	10/3/2019 11:35:16 AM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

via Joyce Alene twitter.com 1/ Trump just committed a felony violation of law by soliciting something of value in connection with a US election from a foreign gov’t on national TV. 52 U.S. Code § 30121. Violating the law isn’t necessary for Impeachment but it certainly warrants it. t.co 2/ The statute requires knowledge your conduct is a crime. After the Mueller investigation, there’s no way Trump was unaware this violates the law. Ukraine/China can you hear me is even worse than Russia, if that’s possible, because it comes from a sitting president. 3/ Campaign finance crimes also require a thing of value be involved. But as FEC Chair @EllenLWeintraub recently said, you don’t have to be able to assign a dollar amount. But, in the case of Ukraine, Trump did this. The help he sought was worth $400mil in US aid. That’s a felony The key here is recalling impeachment doesn’t require a felony. Impeachment is meant, in the immortal words of @LindseyGrahamSC to cleanse the office. But for those who’ve demanded a felony crime before a president can be impeached, here it is in plain view.