Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz argued in President Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday that the president’s demand for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden — a leading candidate to oppose him in the presidential campaign — is not an impeachable offense because Trump was acting on the belief that his reelection is “in the public interest.”
Dershowitz offered the hypothetical scenario of a Democratic president offering a quid pro quo to help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a long-standing goal of American foreign policy that if successful would also boost his or her reelection prospects. He added: “It is so dangerous to try to psychoanalyze a president to try to get into the intricacies of the human mind. Everybody has mixed motives.”
Taking the argument to a reductio ad absurdum, the Atlantic magazine’s Adam Serwer wrote on Twitter: “If the president drops nuclear bombs on New York and California to neutralize their electoral votes because he believes it is in the national interest, it is not impeachable, according to Alan Dershowitz.”
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stableford All the budding politicians are like - save this tweet and video. I will need it.
stableford I can’t believe that this crap is coming out of the mouth of an educated man!
stableford JFC that is crazy!
stableford His re-election is not in my best interest!
stableford Is he trying to Riff On Mark Twain? Is Mr. Trump 'a noisome bacillus'?
stableford Fuck! Is this the best Harvard Law School can do ? I know someone who thinks he should not have been arrested for robbing a bank, because he thought it is was in the national interest....
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