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Originally Posted by mooby
One final question before I'm done with this forever. This applies to anyone willing to speak in Trump's defense.
Do you believe the President has authority to do anything he wants?
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Of course not, and the argument by Derschowitz was poorly made, and then twisted to sound crazy.
The fact is that political gain is part of nearly every calculus. Pelosi bringing the Impeachment was a political calculus, as was fast forwarding the impeachment process to the Senate to make the Republicans the ones who didn't want witnesses.
But, when Pres Obama says I have a pen and a phone, and Dems get outraged by Republicans who took offense( like me) suddenly get offended by a President saying I have the authority to do what I want under Article 2. Well it's pot meet kettle time.
I believe that the House should have done it right, and if bribery, or other offenses were proved not by hearsay, or NYT leaks, but by testimony and documents, which obviously the court would have said turn over, then Trump should have resigned. If the Dems keep the House in 2020, I fully expect a rehash of all of this, but this time doing it right. At that point the voter choice argument is gone, and they have 4 more years to truly prove their case.
One last thing, IF the House had gotten the Courts to say turn over the [whatever] and after all appeals were exhausted and failed and Trump refused, that would be obstruction with cause for impeachment and removal.