Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) broke away from a contact with reporters, muttering that Trump was going to be impeached for a single phone call. No, it was not a single little phone call. Following is a list of federal statutes that President Trump has very likely broken.
1.) 18 U.S.C. 201 (b) Bribery - reads: "Whoever directly or indirectly, gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official, or offers any public official who has been selected to be a public official." It also refers to a quid pro quo. "Anything of value" includes intangibles. Rep. Adam Schiff has testified that bribery was inferred in the impeachment charge.
2.) The Whistleblower Protection Act. Trump revealed the name of the alleged whistleblower in a December 27 Twitterstorm. Retaliatory intent violates 5 U.S.C. (b) (8)-(9). (4).
3) 18 U.S. Code 1512 also concerns tampering with a witness. While Marie Yovanovitch was testifying before a congressional committee, Trump tweeted: "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine." When Trump asked that Michael Cohen's father-in-law be investigated for the source of his money, he was a potential witness in a trial of Cohen. When Roger Stone said that he would never testify against Trump, Trump tweeted that it is "Nice to know that some people still have guts."
4.) Based on a study of it, the GAO found Trump to have violated the Impoundment Control Act, because funds cannot be withheld for a policy reason.
5.) 18 U.S.C. 1512 again, Trump admitted that he tried to get James Comey to change his testimony by lying about having tapes.
6.) 18 U.S.C. 1503 defines "obstruction of justice" as "Any act which, corruptly or by the threat of force, threatening communications, impedes, influences, obstructs or aims to impede, influence or obstruct the due administration of justice." The Mueller report has some ten possible cases of obstruction of justice.
7.) 11 CFR 110.20 states that a foreign national shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value, or expressly or implicitly promises to make a contribution or donation, in connection with any Federal, State, or local election. President Trump has stated many times that he has no compunction about violating campaign finance law.
8.) Federal law defines fraud as "any intentional deception or misrepresentation used to benefit yourself or someone else." Trump tried to conceal the payment of hush money to two women who he had sexual relations with. He also lied about ongoing plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. There are many other instances of Trump using deception or misrepresentation to benefit himself.
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