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...
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 " Don Lemon received intense backlash for mocking Tr... ": Don Lemon clarifies remarks after President Trump called him the 'dumbest man on television' Don Lemon is setting the record straight on a CNN clip that angered President Donald Trump. The clip shows Lemon and two guests weighing in on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and NPR host Mary Louise Kelly's Ukraine discussion. The anchor called Pompeo's suggestion that Kelly couldn't find the country on a map a "petty attempt to put her down." Author Rick Wilson concurred: "He also knows, deep in his heart, that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter 'U' and a picture of an actual, physical crane," he said. "He knows that this is an administration defined by ignorance of the world. So that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience: the credulous boomer rube demo....
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