Laurence Tribe is a Harvard Law School professor, highly renowned and respected.
Andrew Napolitano is a well known Fox News Channel legal commentator and an attorney, known for his conservative views.
Alan Dershowitz is, like Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor, well known for drawing attention to himself, and controversial for the people he has represented in court, including O J Simpson 25 years ago.
Tribe, a well known liberal, and Napolitano, a well known conservative who often has been supportive of Donald Trump, have joined together in their assessment of the Robert Mueller report and recent statement, making it clear that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, and should face impeachment. Napolitano also has said that a sitting President can be indicted, despite the statements of Robert Mueller. Tribe has also said that America could lose its soul and constitutional democracy if Trump does not face impeachment.
Dershowitz has argued against impeachment, and claims that there is no evidence to demonstrate that Donald Trump has done anything to deserve such proceedings. He is often on Fox News Channel, and is seen as an apologist for Donald Trump. He has been sharply critical of the Robert Mueller investigation and its conclusions.
The battle over possible impeachment is riling the Democratic Party and the House of Representatives, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi still opposed to action short term, and instead wanting a buildup of evidence before such a move commences, while many say there is already a tremendous amount of material to promote such an initiative.
Here is one of two videos regarding Laurence Tribe:
Here is the second of two videos regarding Laurence Tribe:
Here is a video regarding Alan Dershowitz:
Ronald writes,
“The battle over possible impeachment is riling the Democratic Party and the House of Representatives, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi still opposed to action short term, and instead wanting a buildup of evidence before such a move commences, while many say there is already a tremendous amount of material to promote such an initiative.â€
I do not trust any of these people, mentioned in this blog topic by Ronald, but it does lead me to this conclusion: Russiagate is still being pushed and dragged out, by a desperately corrupt, corporate Democratic Party Establishment and their allies in media. This is not going to win the party the White House in 2020. And the more they go on, the more I suspect what they are actually wanting to do is re-elect Donald Trump.
D, you have a right to your views, of course, but I totally am turned off by Jimmy Dore and his crowd!
To say that Trump is somehow a victim, and that Alan Dershowitz is a hero, and Laurence Tribe is a villain, is totally ridiculous as I see it!
If we do not hold Trump accountable and expose his corruption, then our democratic system of government is gone, and I will not stand by and defend anyone who promotes conspiracy theories about Poor Trump, the victim, when he has poisoned our atmosphere, along with Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee and his disgrace of a daughter, by promoting the BIG LIE technique of Adolf Hitler!
There is NO WAY to defend Trump as an innocent victim, and the extreme left is as dangerous as the extreme right, and I am proud to be a mainstream left of center progressive!
Franklin Graham is calling for a day of prayer for Trump on Sunday, acting as if Trump is a victim.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/us/franklin-graham-trump-day-of-prayer/index.html
Ronald writes, “If we do not hold Trump accountable and expose his corruption,…â€
Democrats cannot hold Donald Trump accountable since they never held their “party†accountable for the rigging of the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton. They never denied the content of the DNC e-mails. They created Russiagate to distract from probing into how their party operates to prevent actual progressives from having power. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, who went on the national news programs the weekend WikiLeaks reported the DNC e-mails, pushed what became known as “Russiagate.†So, rather than focus on what was in those DNC e-mails, the DNC, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mook declared it was that Russian interference—oh, and Donald Trump—who deserved focus.) Among what was also exposed was the memo of Hillary Clinton and her campaign trying to encourage media to push for “Pied Piper Candidates,†extremely right-wing, 2016 Republican presidential candidates which included Trump. So, Hillary—and her campaign—helped to deliver the presidency of Donald Trump. It was with this—plus the fact that, unlike the post-2012 Republicans, the post-2016 Democrats never had an Autopsy Report—that this notion of holding Trump accountable, as if there is righteousness with these corporate Democrats, is not credible.
D, Sorry but I do not accept your “dark” view of Hillary Clinton and her campaign, and wonder what you are imbibing.
The evidence is very clear that Trump’s son, son in law, and many others in the Trump campaign collaborated with Russians throughout the campaign, and that Putin interfered in the election, and with such close results in the Midwest, and the history of likely machine manipulation in 2000 and 2004 by the Bush campaign in Florida and Ohio respectively, that it was Republican corruption that led to the results all three times, with foreign manipulation assisting in the result.
Do not make Trump out to be a victim as he is the perpetrator with others of one scam after another, and is an expert at criminal activities throughout his life, including much of the time with Russians, who have provided much of the funding for his fake multi billionaire image.
Trump is an illegitimate President, and we should have had Hillary Clinton, who clearly is imperfect as we all are, but under whom this nation would be far better off than it is in 2019!
Ronald writes, “…the extreme left is as dangerous as the extreme right, and I am proud to be a mainstream left of center progressive!“
The two most influential 20th-century United States presidents—meaning, they came through with at least one policy which changed the nation, and people’s live, which has lasted to even to this point in history—were Franklin Roosevelt (D–New York) and Ronald Reagan (R–California).
People’s politics are closer to one of them.
The corporate Democrats are closer to Reagan. They have been spent the majority of the last four decades trying to out-Republican the Republican Party. The corporate Democrats are the ones who use the nonsensical words “extreme left†to try to equate it with “extreme right,†in an attempt to paint corporate Democrats as the ones who have the reasonable minds and world views needed for U.S. politics.
This is both insulting and absurd. The extreme left has no meaningful power. This notion of an extreme left being dangerous is dismissed. The latter, the extreme right, does hold power. They have been empowered and re-empowered plenty over the last few decades.
Who, between the extreme left and the corporate Democrats, enabled the extreme right? Not the extreme left. The extreme left, who are closer not to Reagan (as are the corporate Democrats) but to Roosevelt, did not help to deliver the presidency of Trump.
The corporate Democrats—with alternative words like “moderates,†“centrists,†and even “center left†(and many falsely call themselves progressives)—helped elect Trump. You know—history! And they’re trying to re-elect him for 2020.
The corporate Democrats turned their backs on workers. The corporate Democrats stopped fighting for the values of workers in the Democratic Party. They got in bed with the Republicans on policies which sold out the actual left, for policies which are right-wing, and they voted for the Iraq War.
The corporate Democrats are not on the left. They are on the left for social issues, yes, but they are on the right for economics, for the corporations, for the financial industry, for the health insurance companies, for the pharmaceutical industry, for the military industrial complex, and for wars.
Since 2016, the corporate Democrats have been trying to conceal their corruption by screaming it was Russia who should be blamed for the Democrats’ 2016 rigged presidential primaries, and that it was Russia that got Donald Trump elected the 45th U.S. president in the general election of 2016.
If we are talking about who is dangerous: I have to conclude the corporate Democrats, and not at all the “extreme left,†are very dangerous.
Read the Mueller report, D. It’s online. The first part talks about the Russian interference. The second part talks about Trump obstructing justice.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5955118-The-Mueller-Report.html
Thank you, Former Republican.
The idea that Trump is somehow innocent, and Hillary Clinton is horrible, is “fake news”, and I am amazed that anyone would believe that Trump is an innocent bystander.
And for the extreme left to attack Hillary and somehow ignore the evil of Trump is mind boggling!
Contrary to what Trump and his enablers want us to believe, the Trump-Russia investigation did not begin with the Steele dossier. Our allies’ intelligence services began warning the CIA about suspicious interactions between people connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents beginning in late 2015. The first warnings came from GCHQ, or British intelligence. But that was followed by reports from Germany, Estonia, Poland, and the Dutch-French intelligence service DGSE. The final straw, as documented in Mueller’s report, came when Australian intelligence reported that George Papadopoulos told one of their agents that the Russian government had access to “dirt†on Clinton that could help Trump’s campaign.
All of these other intelligence agencies from other countries noticing suspicious interactions is one of the many reasons why I agree with the Professor and don’t believe that Trump won the election fair and square.
Barr’s investigation of the investigation will alienate our allies and harm national security.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/05/28/how-barrs-investigation-will-alienate-our-allies-and-harm-national-security/
Fox News Demonstrates Why Mueller Should Testify Before Congress
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/05/30/fox-news-demonstrates-why-mueller-should-testify-before-congress/
Democrats have multiple scandals to consider for impeachment because Trump is deplorable in many ways. They don’t have to pick just one. And, as long as he stays in there, his list of scandals will continue to grow.
Scandal 1: Emoluments violations, getting paid from foreign governments for his hotels.
Scandal 2: Lying about hush money to two mistresses.
Scandal 3: Lying about continued negotiations for Trump tower in Moscow.
Scandal 4: Russian officials had more than 100 contacts with Trump associates during the campaign and transition, including his son, his closest adviser, his lawyer, and his campaign manager.
Scandal 5: Multiple instances of obstruction of justice.
Scandal 6: Overruling his lawyers and intelligence experts, and granting Kushner a top-secret clearance.
Scandal 7: Separating central American children from their parents, subjecting them to abuse, losing their parents contact information.
Scandal 8: Sheer f-ng incompetence and hiring a corrupt and incompetent cabinet, including Ben Carson, Scott Pruitt, etc.
Former Republican, I salute you for that great list of crimes of Donald Trump, and by comparison over her lifetime, Hillary Clinton made many contributions as an attorney, a First Lady, a US Senator, and as Secretary of State.
Was she perfect? NO! But neither is Bernie Sanders or any other person, past or present, who has announced for President, and to have had Vladimir Putin work to destroy her candidacy, in itself, is a crime that led to the worst constitutional crisis in modern times, far worse than even Richard Nixon!
We will be suffering for many years from the abuse of power and crimes that have occurred under Donald Trump! 🙁
Need To Impeach lists 10 impeachable offenses:
1 – Obstructing Justice
The trail of evidence starts with Trump’s attempt to get Comey to drop an investigation into National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn.
When he refused, Trump fired James Comey, the FBI director responsible for overseeing the investigation into Trump’s relationship with Russia during the 2016 election.
Trump made two more attempts at stopping the investigation by trying (unsuccessfully) to fire Robert Mueller, Comey’s predecessor.
2 – Profiting From The Presidency
The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause prohibits the president from accepting personal benefits from any foreign government or official.
Trump has retained his ownership interests in his family business while he is in office.
Thus, every time a foreign official stays at a Trump hotel, or a foreign government approves a new Trump Organization project, or grants a trademark, Trump is in violation of the Constitution.
3 – Collusion
In the middle of the 2016 election, Trump’s son was invited to meet with a Russian national regarding “information that would incriminate Hillary and…would be very useful to†Donald Trump
The Russian, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had ties to high-ranking Kremlin officials.
Trump Jr. took the meeting. He said, “I love it,†when told Veselnitskaya may have had dirt on Clinton. Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner also attended.
Federal law prohibits campaigns from soliciting anything of value from a foreign national.
After journalists broke this story, Trump personally dictated a public statement on behalf of his son that lied about the intended purpose of the meeting.
This relationship between the Trump team and the Russian national raises questions of whether the campaign aided a hostile foreign power’s active operation against the United States.
4 – Advocating Political & Police Violence
When Trump gave cover to the neo-Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville and murdered a protester, he violated his obligation to protect the citizenry against domestic violence.
When Trump encouraged police officers to rough up people they have under arrest, he violated his obligation to oversee faithful execution of the laws.
When Trump shared anti-Muslim content on Twitter, he violated his obligation to uphold equal protection of the laws.
This represents a pattern of disregard for some of the president’s basic responsibilities as defined by the Constitution.
5 – Abuse Of Power
President Trump’s decision to pardon Joe Arpaio amounted to an abuse of the pardon power that revealed his indifference to individual rights and equal protections.
Joe Arpaio was convicted for contempt of court after ignoring a court order that he stop detaining and searching people based on the color of their skin, which constitutes a violation of their rights.
Pardoning this conviction goes against the Fifth Amendment, which allows the judiciary to issue and enforce injunctions against government officials who flout individual rights.
6 – Engaging In Reckless Conduct
High-ranking administration officials involved in foreign affairs have signaled that Trump does not have the capacity to make informed decisions in the event of a military crisis.
Even worse, his actions could spark a needless confrontation stemming from misunderstanding or miscalculation
We see this in full effect every time Trump tweets or makes a public statement taunting and threatening the North Korean regime.
The president may be the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States,†but that does not give him the right to behave in reckless or wanton ways that put millions of lives at risk.
If he is unfit to perform his duties as Commander in Chief, he cannot be allowed to remain in the position.
7 – Persecuting Political Opponents
President Trump has repeatedly pressured the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate and prosecute political adversaries like Hillary Clinton.
This is not based in concerns with national security, law enforcement, or any other function of his office—it is an attempted power play, plain and simple.
There’s no question that this constitutes an outrageous and inappropriate abuse of executive branch powers and serves as clear grounds for impeachment.
8 – Attacking the Free Press
President Trump has repeatedly attacked the concept of an independent press.
He’s called critical coverage “fake news†and journalists “the enemy of the American people,†made threats to change libel laws and revoke licenses, and his battles with CNN led him to try to interfere in the AT&T/Time Warner merger.
This demonstrates his unwillingness to respect and uphold the Constitution, and disdain for the crucial foundations to our free society.
9 – Violating Immigrants’ Right to Due Process
Enforcing its new “zero tolerance†policy, the Trump administration separated as many as 3,000 immigrant children from their parents at the southern border. This policy was meant to deter families from attempting to cross the border.
The children and their families have been held in internment camps and cages with what lawyers call “inhumane conditionsâ€
Due to negligence, the Trump administration has no plan to reunite all children with their families, even deporting some parents while their children remain detained.
10 – Violating Campaign Finance Laws
Donald Trump knew disclosure of his extramarital affairs with Stephanie Clifford (A.K.A. Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal could hurt his chances at winning the 2016 election.
At the direction of Trump, Michael Cohen and American Media, Inc. (AMI), the publisher of the National Enquirer bought the rights to the women’s stories and forced them to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements to prevent them from going public.
Cohen admitted to making illegal, hush-money payments to hide Trump’s affairs in the fall of 2016, just weeks before the election.
Federal prosecutors, and Trump’s co-conspirators Cohen and AMI, all say that Cohen made the payments at Trump’s direction, “in concert with the campaign,†and with the intention of helping Trump win.
Trump is unindicted co-conspirator because he directed Cohen to “cause an unlawful corporate contribution†and an “excessive campaign contribution†by paying the two women hush money with the intent to influence the election.
https://www.needtoimpeach.com/impeachable-offenses/
To second what Former Republican said, the longer Trump stays in office, the more and more impeachable offenses he will continue to make.
None of these policies look right-wing to me. https://democrats.org/about/party-platform/
Thanks, Pragmatic Progressive and Rational Lefty for your posting of the case against Trump, and the advanced Democratic Party Platform of 2016, respectively!