.MaddowBlog: Dershowitz shocks with argument about Trump, political interests
I naively thought Alan Dershowitz had gone about as far as he could go in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial when he argued that Donald Trump can’t be convicted, even if he’s guilty, because presidential abuses of power are permissible. Little did I know the argument he’d present on the Senate floor today.
“If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” he said. It’s an argument rooted in the belief that Trump may very well have tried to coerce a vulnerable ally into helping his campaign, though Dershowitz believes there’s nothing wrong with that because Trump also believe his re-election would benefit the public.
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