Trang Ánh Nam has left a new comment on your post " CNN's Erin Burnett says "You cannot make this up .... ": Trump Indicates He'll Seek To Block Key Impeachment Witnesses' Testimonies At Trial President Donald Trump signaled in an interview aired Friday that he would seek to block key witnesses from testifying in the Senate's impeachment trial, including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Trump ordered the men, and several other witnesses, not to cooperate with the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry about his pressure campaign on Ukraine to produce political dirt against Democrats. Now, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) prepares to transmit two articles of impeachment to the Senate for an impeachment trial, Trump implied he would seek to do the same in that chamber. Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham if he w...
Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Alan Dershowitz slammed present-day scholars for c... ": Trump lawyer Dershowitz argues president can't be impeached for an act he thinks will help his re-election Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump's defense team, alarmed Democrats and many legal scholars with his argument in the first day of questions and answers in the Senate impeachment trial that presidents cannot be removed from office for an action they believe could help get them re-elected. In response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about whether it mattered if Trump engaged in a "quid pro quo," Dershowitz said that motive was what mattered and that if an act was in the public interest it was not impeachable. And he said it was reasonable for a public official to equate what is in their own political interest with the public good. "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the ...
Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Alan Dershowitz slammed present-day scholars for c... ": Instead, the House of Representatives accused President Trump of "abuse of power" because "to obtain an improper personal political benefit" he ignored "national security and other vital national interests." But by this standard, every President, whether Republican or Democrat, is impeachable. Abuse of power is a cliché accusation that politicians routinely toss at each other. Here, the alleged abuse of power is that President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption and election meddling as a quid pro quo for timely receiving certain military assistance from the U.S. government. That is why Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Prof. Dershowitz, "As a matter of law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo?" Of course, it is self-evidently in the public interest for voters to know about corrupti...
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