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https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/impeachment-managers-lindsey-graham-video/index.html

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Washington (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Thursday played a 1999 video of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham arguing that "high crimes" don't "even need to be a crime," a statement that runs counter to a central Republican talking point in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

"What's a high crime? How about an important person hurt somebody of low means. That's not very scholarly, but I think it's the truth," Graham says in the video clip from President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial played on Thursday. "I think that's what they meant by 'high crimes.' Doesn't even have to be a crime. It's just when you start using your office and you're acting in a way that hurts people, you have committed a high crime."
 
Nadler, an impeachment manager, played the video as part of the Democrat's strategy to highlight the constitutional case for removing Trump from office for abuse of power as they seek to convince skeptical -- and often weary -- Republican senators that the trial needs witnesses and documents. Much of Trump's defense has relied on the idea that no crime was committed in his conduct regarding Ukraine -- an argument Nadler sought to undercut by showing the 1999 video.
 
"There are many reasons why high crimes and misdemeanors are not and cannot be limited to violations of the criminal code. We address them at length in the briefs we have filed," Nadler said after the video played.

 

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47 minutes ago, nate said:

His biggest base are evangelicals, they absolutely love him.

Basically being an evangelical means you are a morally bankrupt, xenophobic, violent homophobe

You're gonna need to bust out the definition as you see it of "evangelical" when you're making statements like that.

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34 minutes ago, nate said:

Judge people by their actions, not their words

There are a lot of self-proclaimed evangelicals who harbor racist, xenophobic, and homophobic beliefs. And it makes me very sad that 81% of evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016.

But that doesn't define every person who identifies as evangelical.

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12 minutes ago, Taylor said:

There are a lot of self-proclaimed evangelicals who harbor racist, xenophobic, and homophobic beliefs. And it makes me very sad that 81% of evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016.

But that doesn't define every person who identifies as evangelical.

That is a misnomer.  Plenty of evangelicals didn’t vote.

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Plenty of Bernie supporters didn't vote after the DNC stacked the deck in favor of Hillary.

I know several young voters, children of friends of mine, who stayed home on Election Day out of protest. They told me their Bernie-supporting friends also stayed home. Of course, this is anecdotal and it's California which Hillary won by 10 million votes or whatever the total was, so it didn't really matter. But you wonder how many young voters in swing states who felt the Bern similarly stayed home in November.

 

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