In one tweet, Mimi Rocah simply states the "smoking Trump gun" AND smacks down Brit Hume.

[Miles Archer]

Mimi Rocah
@Mimirocah1

Replying to @brithume

It wasn’t a “failed crime.” He got caught after he’d already done the act & abused his power. And anyway - you’re basically admitting the crime but asking for leniency because it wasn’t so bad which is remarkable.

5:13 PM · Nov 2, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Link to tweet

Brit Hume
@brithume
· Nov 1

From WSJ: “De­moc­rats want to im­peach Mr. Trump for ask­ing a for­eign gov­ernment to in­ves­ti­gate his po­lit­i­cal ri­val for cor­ruption, though the probe never hap­pened, and for with­hold­ing aid to Ukraine that in the end wasn’t with­held.”

[ToxMarz]

1. If the president commits high crimes and misdemeanors

as determined by the congress, there is ONLY one prescribed penalty. IMPEACHMENT. It is not the ultimate penalty or any other degree of penalty. It is what it is.

[Miles Archer]

2. Intent. It's been said over and over.

The argument is now that he didn't receive anything, so no crime.

That ain't gonna fly.

[Wednesdays]

5. "Your Honor, I admit my client broke into the bank...

...but he left empty-handed. So, he's off the hook, right?"

[FormerDittoHead]

11. What if he asked Russia to kill Biden, but Russia failed to do it?

More details to keep perspective:

1) Trump wasn't some rich guy asking some rich person for a favor, but he was asking to have a STATE use its legal authorities.

2) Biden was a *private citizen* - not some other country or state actor.

3) There was no domestic investigation going on for Ukraine to "help" with court orders etc. They wanted Ukraine to MAKE STUFF UP.

[JudyM]

13. He didn't receive anything, which is why he withheld the money.

Withholding the money is an act in furtherance.

[ToxMarz]

20. Impeachment is not a criminal trial.

The measure of "high crimes and misdemeanors" is not based on criminal statutes and trial procedures (though these can be included in the process if appropriate and applicable). Much of it can weigh on nebulous basis of abuse of power and breach of trust.

[2naSalit]

3. Gosh...

I thought the ultimate penalty was death.

[kag]

21. Things that make you go...

[yardwork]

4. I scanned Brit Hume's twitter feed. It's full-on propaganda.

It's all about the stock market for these guys. They don't care about anything else.

[OkieLib41]

6. So, using the GOP's logic...

If I attempted to rob a bank, was seen on video in the commission of such attempt, but ultimately failed. Then was caught and charged by the police, I should get leniency? You know since it was a "failed crime", I shouldn't have the serve the ultimate penalty. 🤔🤨😂

[Scarsdale]

16. Right. Plus

if a criminal says "I wanted to kill her, but my gun misfired." No crime for gop then?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Brit Hume is a special class of propagandist

act dumb and humble and melt reality into opinion.

[Danascot]

8. If you try to hire a hitman for money and the hit doesn't happen, is it a crime?

Yes.

[grantcart]

9. And the criminal doesn't acknowledge the crime and intends to repeat it

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[crickets]

17. Yes, there it is. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Nor has the criminal been held accountable yet.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Calling a conservative a dumbass isn't an insult....

It's just calling a dumbass a conservative.

[brush]

26. Right. It's redundant.

[uponit7771]

14. Brit Humes: ".. no one should go to jail for attempted murder!! ... " These people are really stupid

[Haggis for Breakfast]

22. Brit Hume is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. In our Constitution, impeachment is not the ultimate penalty: execution for treason is.

Just to correct the asshole.

Impeachment is no more than a bank robber being put on trial for an alleged bank robbery.

[ancianita]

18. Everything MF45's done surpasses the "semen stain standard" of impeachment.

[getagrip_already]

19. We don't know yet that they didn't get something.....

Either from Ukraine or China. It would be the wrong time to release it.

I especially don't trust China. They want the south China sea and taiwan; Trump can walk away and let them take them.

That would be worth some trumped up charges and an indictment of Biden's son. What would happen to a candidate if Trump fast tracked extradiction of his son to a hostile foreign country?

[not fooled]

23. Yep

1. red don got a lot of mileage out of news coverage linking Biden's name to "scandal," which will linger in the minds of some 'Muricans.

2. Zelensky has danced around, avoiding saying the obvious--that red don was applying thumbscrews. So, red don's threat is having some effect.

3. Wasn't the aid released only a couple days after the whistleblower went public, i.e. red don had no choice at that point?

4. Ukraine already knuckled under to red don a while back, by stopping cooperation with Mueller into Manafort's work there. Plus, they seem to have "lost" the black ledger listing payments to Manafort among other pro-Russia actions.

And that's not even getting into what might be going on with China. You state a very plausible course of events red don could set in motion there.

Plus,

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Failed actual intercourse too ?