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    Even FoxNew's legal analyst points out the evidence for impeachment is "ample and uncontradicted"
    Fox News legal analyst says there is 'ample and uncontradicted' evidence that Trump should be removed from office

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    Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano made a forceful case for President Donald Trump's removal from office in an op-ed published Thursday.

    Napolitano argued that a president does not have to violate specific laws to be impeached and removed.

    Nonetheless, Napolitano said it can be argued that Trump did indeed break specific laws: bribery and contempt of Congress.

    He concluded that there is "ample and uncontradicted" evidence to remove trump from office.

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    The most prominent legal analyst for Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano, published an op-ed Thursday arguing that there is "ample" evidence that President Donald Trump should be removed from office.

    Napolitano's piece came as the Senate entered day two of opening arguments in Trump's Senate trial following his impeachment by the House of Representatives last month.

    Trump was impeached with charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Both relate to his efforts to pressure Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations targeting his rivals while withholding military aid and a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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    The first investigation Trump demanded focused on Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, until last year.

    Trump has baselessly accused the Bidens of corruption related to Hunter's work for Burisma, which was previously investigated by the Ukrainian prosecutor general.

    The second investigation centered on a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election. There is also no evidence to support that claim.

    Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, determined that Trump's Office of Management and Budget violated the law when, at Trump's direction, it ordered a freeze on nearly $400 million of military aid to Ukraine.

    In his op-ed, Napolitano wrote that, while the GAO found that Trump acted unlawfully, the question of whether he acted criminally — a higher standard — is still up in the air.

    Still, he wrote, conduct need not be a federal crime to be impeachable.

    "For example, as others have suggested, if the president moved to Russia and ran the executive branch from there, or if he announced that Roman Catholics were unfit for office, he would not have committed any crimes," Napolitano wrote.

    "Yet, surely, these acts would be impeachable because, when done by the president, they are the moral equivalent of crimes and are so far removed from constitutional norms as to be impeachable."

    Even though the House did not accuse the president of specific crimes, Napolitano said "there is enough evidence here to do so."

    Specifically, he said, federal law bars soliciting foreign interference in US politics, which can include seeking an item "of value" from a foreign government.

    "There is no dispute that Trump did this," Napolitano wrote, referring to Trump's efforts to force Ukraine to deliver political dirt on Biden, who is one of the 2020 Democratic frontrunners.

    "In fact, the case for this is stronger now than it was when the House impeached him last year. Since then, more evidence, which Trump tried to suppress, has come to light."

    Indeed, as Insider reported last week, since Trump was impeached, there have been at least ten developments that strengthen the case for his impeachment.

    They include emails being released to various news outlets detailing concerns within the Pentagon and other agencies about the legality of Trump's aid freeze.

    The Trump administration continued to withhold the aid from Ukraine until it was reported on by Politico in late August and details of Trump's scheme began trickling out to Congress and the public in early September.

    On September 11, after Congress requested an unredacted version of a whistleblower complaint describing concerns with Trump's conduct, the president finally released the funds.

    "Those emails demonstrate conclusively that Trump ordered a halt on the release of the $391 million within minutes of his favor request, and the aid sat undistributed until congressional pressure became too much for Trump to bear," Napolitano wrote.

    He added that the timeline "implicates" two other potential crimes. The first is bribery, and the second is contempt of Congress.

    When congressional committees spearheading the House impeachment inquiry requested documents and witness testimony from the administration, the White House ordered current and former executive branch officials and agencies not to comply.

    The White House argued that the subpoenas were an undue burden, and that the judiciary needed to weigh in to enforce the subpoenas.

    But Napolitano noted that the Constitution gives the House of Representatives the "sole power" to impeach federal officials.

    "The House does not need the approval of the judiciary to obtain evidence of impeachable offenses from executive branch officials," he wrote.

    In all, the House made "valid, lawful, constitutional arguments" for the president's impeachment, he said.

    Napolitano wrote: "What is required for removal of the president? A demonstration of presidential commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which in Trump's case the evidence is ample and uncontradicted."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Even FoxNew's legal analyst points out the evidence for impeachment is "ample and uncontradicted"
    Lol, a rabid NeverTrumper is rabidly NeverTrump. I'mshockedshockedItellya.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Lol, a rabid NeverTrumper is rabidly NeverTrump. I'mshockedshockedItellya.
    Napolitano has not been any form of "nevertrumper". In fact, Napolitano has been a close friend of trump, who trump wanted to appoint to the Supreme Court. Napolitano even came up with conspiracy theories to support trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Napolitano has not been any form of "nevertrumper". In fact, Napolitano has been a close friend of trump, who trump wanted to appoint to the Supreme Court. Napolitano even came up with conspiracy theories to support trump.
    He's been never Trump for some time now, please do try to keep up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    He's been never Trump for some time now, please do try to keep up.
    Everyone in the country with a functioning brain is now a "never Trumper."

    Wake up.
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    Amazing that the simple minded rubes in flyover country knew nothing about Trump other than his so called reality show , while others in the north east knew about his cons since the late 70's
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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Napolitano has not been any form of "nevertrumper". In fact, Napolitano has been a close friend of trump, who trump wanted to appoint to the Supreme Court. Napolitano even came up with conspiracy theories to support trump.
    but he has eddie Munster hair...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank A piece a View Post
    Everyone in the country with a functioning brain is now a "never Trumper."

    Wake up.
    Lol, whatever you say Gramps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    but he has eddie Munster hair...
    No he doesn't, he has a combover hair helmet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    No he doesn't, he has a combover hair helmet.
    don't start with me, boy!

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    nappy was wrong about Mueller, and Comey. he's a prosecutorial boot licker

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Even FoxNew's legal analyst points out the evidence for impeachment is "ample and uncontradicted"
    You mean the same "Napolitano" that approached President Trump for consideration to being appointed as a Federal Judge......the one that Trump laughed out of the building? That Napolitano? Appears to me that if this judge had the goods on Trump...…...he would be on Shiftforbrains legal brain trust, if its as open and shut as falsely presented.

    Reality: This so called expert was once fired by FOX NEWS for promoting untruths...... Another case of SOUR GRAPES. Funny as Hell Does anyone actually think that any of the 100 senators are listening to this TV judge? Maybe some of the democrat communists in senate.....but there is no way in hell that 67 senators are going to vote President Trump out of office.....without one crime being proven.

    Welcome to the "real world" you fascists tweeps.....propaganda is useless in a real court setting. As you are finding out......the presidents legal team presented more evidence in less than an hour than Nadler's team did in 23 hours of hyperbolic bloviation...where not ONE OBJECTIVE FACT was presented into the senate record.....it was 23 hours of hearsay, opinion, and conjecture. If I were Trump's team I would have requested an up and down vote TODAY asking for dismissal due to lack of evidence.

    But....Trump's team has been instructed to allow this to play out......to actually allow witnesses on both sides. This is where the rubber meets the highway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    don't start with me, boy!
    Lol
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    An AlwaysTrump yelling always for Trump.

    FoxNews called. Turn the lights out on Trump.
    Russian trolls and their supporters go on Ignore, automatically: no second chance.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Even FoxNew's legal analyst points out the evidence for impeachment is "ample and uncontradicted"
    Oh everyone knows the birther-in-thief is as guilty as sin.
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    Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.


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