{"id":388520,"date":"2018-12-10T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-may-have-committed-impeachable-offense-us-rep\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:48:09","slug":"presstv-trump-may-have-committed-impeachable-offense-us-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-may-have-committed-impeachable-offense-us-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump may have committed \u2018impeachable offense\u2019: US Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump may have committed an \u201cimpeachable offense,\u201d a top Democrat says, amid reports of critical breakthroughs in a long-running investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s alleged \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Representative Jerry Nadler, who is the favorite to head the next House Judiciary Committee, made the remarks on Sunday, a day after federal prosecutors detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian to help Trump\u2019s 2016 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They would be impeachable offenses, whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they&#8217;d [be] impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office,&#8221; Nadler told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new Congress will not try to shield the president,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We will try to get to the bottom of this in order to serve the American&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/09\/582482\/US-Trump-impeachment-Nadler-Mueller-Cohen-Russia-probe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump may have committed an \u201cimpeachable offense,\u201d a top Democrat says, amid reports of critical breakthroughs in a long-running investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s alleged \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia. Representative Jerry Nadler, who is the favorite to head the next House Judiciary Committee, made the remarks on Sunday, a day after federal prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}