GOP senator dismisses report about Trump admin breaking the law
Sen. John Cornyn on Sunday tried to dismiss a report from a nonpartisan government watchdog group that concluded the Trump administration violated the law when it withheld authorized aid to Ukraine for political purposes.
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cornyn chose his words carefully as he defended Trump’s conduct in the wake of the GAO report. .@JohnCornyn appears to dispute a watchdog report on Trump's withholding of aid to Ukraine:"[It's] Certainly not a crime and something that no one had ever dreamed in the past would have risen to the level of impeachment," he argues. pic.twitter.com/937yftfMSnThe GAO report does not allege that the Trump administration’s misconduct rose to the criminal level, although it does say the administration broke the law.
The Constitution says U.S. officials can be impeached for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” — the last of which is a term many legal scholars have interpreted to include both literal crimes and severe violations of public trust.
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