By Jonathon Moseley ——Bio and Archives--October 12, 2019
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Pursuant to the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry, we are hereby transmitting a subpoena that compels you to produce documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 18, 2019. The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters. * * * The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters.
Dear Chairman: We are not aware of any documents that match the description of your request. First, no impeachment inquiry exists. Not only is there no impeachment inquiry provided for under the U.S. Constitution or other law, but certainly there is no impeachment inquiry simply because the Speaker of the House held a press conference. The Constitution provides for impeachment where treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors have already been clearly established as true. Congress is not empowered to act as a law enforcement agency. Thus, the power of impeachment exists only when grounds have already been established, not when Congress hopes to discover grounds. But any investigative process of an "impeachment inquiry" if the Constitution would at the least require a vote of the full House of Representatives, not a press conference. Therefore, you write for documents relating to an impeachment inquiry. We are not aware of any such documents pertinent to an impeachment inquiry.
Second, we are not aware of any documents relating to events affecting the 2020 election in the United States. We are aware of documents relating to foreign interference in the 2016 election, should you suddenly develop an interest in the corruption of the 2016 election during the Administration of former President Barack Obama. Third we are not aware of any documents relating to the withholding of security assistance to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, since we are not aware of "security assistance" provided by Congress (that being a military operation) and particularly because, after passing careful review, the first tranche of funding for lethal military aid was actually provided to the Ukraine, as a sharp break from the purely humanitarian relief provided by President Obama. Thus we are not aware of any assistance to the Ukraine that was withheld, except by the Obama Administration. Therefore, we do not have any documents that fall within the scope of your document request as you have defined it. There are documents that expose the collusion of Democrat party elected officials with the then-government of Ukraine to corrupt the 2016 presidential election in the United States in favor of Hillary Clinton. These have already been released to uninterested journalists and to the general public. If you would like to send an intern to pick up a set of such publicly-available documents, please let me know.
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Jonathon Moseley is co-founder and Legal Counsel of Americans for the Trump Agenda, and Executive Director of the White House Defense Fund. Moseley is serving as Legal Counsel for Americans for the Trump Agenda, and is also a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney. Moseley and a co-host with the “Conservative Commandos” radio show, and an active member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party. He studied Physics at Hampshire College, Finance at the University of Florida and law at George Mason University in Virginia. Moseley promoted Reagan’s policies at High Frontier and the Center for Peace in Freedom. He worked at the U.S. Department of Education, including at the Center for Choice in Education.