Failing short thus far of proving collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, the special counsel, Rep. Jerold Nadler, D-N.Y., claims, reveals "massive fraud against the American people" with Michael Cohen's hush money payments, which he considers "impeachable offenses."
"They would be impeachable offenses," Rep. Nadler, the incoming House Judiciary Chairman, told CNN's "State of the Union." "Whether they're important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question.
"But certainly, they're impeachable offenses, because, even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office."
The statement was made on the premise President Trump is proved to have directed former lawyer Michael Cohen's payments to women who had affairs with the then-candidate Trump. The payment evidenced will need to be stretched to paint a broader picture, though, for an impeachment case to be made against President Trump, Rep. Nadler told CNN host Jake Tapper.
"You don't necessarily launch an impeachment against the president because he committed an impeachable offense," Nadler told Tapper. "There are several things you have to look at.
"One, were there impeachable offenses committed, how many, et cetera. Secondly, how important were they? Do they rise to the gravity where you should undertake an impeachment? An impeachment is an attempt to in effect overturn the result of the last election and should do it only for very serious situations. That's the question."
Nadler trumpeted the new Congress led by the Democratic party which will not "shield" the president as the GOP-led Congress did and instead will seek "to stop this massive fraud on the American people."
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