Posted on 01/30/2020 7:43:33 PM PST by karpov
The Senate will acquit President Trump on both House articles of impeachment. That much even Adam Schiff knows. The Senate trial is now all about the election and impeachment precedents, which are two of many good reasons for cleaning up the trial distortions and wrapping up the show this week.
Start with the media claim that defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz said a President can do anything to further his re-election as long he thinks it is in the national interest. This isn’t what he said. The Harvard professor said explicitly that a President can be impeached for criminal acts. He could be impeached for soliciting a financial bribe, for example, or seeking a campaign contribution from a foreign source. He could also be impeached for exceeding his constitutional authority.
Mr. Dershowitz differs from the press in believing that a President cannot be impeached for acts of foreign policy that may be in his personal political interest but aren’t themselves impeachable acts. Presidents conduct foreign policy in what they think is the national interest, but they also hope it will be in their political interest. Presidents typically act from “mixed motives,” as Mr. Dershowitz put it, that are difficult to discern or to separate the high-minded from the self-interested.
It is thus too low a constitutional bar for the House to claim, as it does, that Mr. Trump can be impeached because Democrats think his motives were corrupt. The acts themselves must qualify as “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Mr. Trump’s acts don’t qualify—because asking aid recipients to investigate corruption isn’t illegal, and in any case the aid to Ukraine was delivered on time and no investigation of Joe Biden was started.
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It is DEFINITELY in the national interest for a sitting president to investigate a presidential candidate who has been revealed to have committed REAL Quid Pro Quo’s while he was VP.
Why wouldn’t the country benefit by this type of vetting out of an obviously corrupt candidate? It’s a healthy thing to do for the country.
The evidence proving Biden’s corrupt Quid Pro Quo has been in the public domain for quite some time, including the Biden S.O.B youtube video. It’s obvious.
Once this is in the books and precedent, they’ll initiate 25 impeachments against judges and PT.
Preventing the accused from putting on a defense in the House is simply the end as we know it.
Romney?
Murkowski?
THROW THEM OUT OF THE PARTY.
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