IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday [11-14-19] that President Donald Trump committed ‘bribery,’ an impeachable offense, by trying to force Ukraine into tarnishing a political rival to help him in the 2020 election. The speaker’s remark is one of her strongest statements yet on the scandal engulfing Trump that is threatening his presidency. Bribery is one of the specific crimes spelled out in the Constitution as an impeachable offense…Still, Pelosi cautioned, she isn’t yet ready to say whether the House will vote to impeach Trump, an outcome many lawmakers think is all but certain to happen by the end of this year…Pelosi’s repeated use of the word ‘bribery’ is a notable departure from recent weeks in which Democrats used convoluted terms like ‘quid pro quo’ and ‘insidiousness’ to describe Trump’s alleged behavior.”
–Heather Caygle, “Pelosi says Trump committed ‘bribery’ in Ukraine scandal,” Politico, November 14, 2019 12:36 pm