Democrats and other critics of President Trump should start talking instead about impeachable crimes that he has arguably committed in the Ukraine controversy. These are campaign finance law violations, bribery, extortion, and conspiracy against the United States.
First, it is illegal for a candidate or a campaign “to solicit” from a foreign national a “contribution or donation of money or another thing of value.” It is an absolute prohibition that does not require any sort of “this for that.” Trump explicitly made such a solicitation when he asked as “a favor” that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should investigate his political rival Joe Biden and the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine and the Democrats, not Russia, had meddled in the 2016 election.
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