The Patriot Post® · Dershowitz vs. Mueller
The airwaves in the past 48 hours have been full of speculation about the impeachment of President Trump. MSNBC scored its highest ratings ever Tuesday night because the Left is convinced that Trump is on the verge of being impeached and frogmarched out of the White House.
But impeached for what? Being a populist conservative who defeated both major political establishments, the Bushes and the Clintons? (See below for a short list of Trump’s major accomplishments.)
While some on the Left are screaming about “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the constitutional requirements for impeachment, others on the Right question why Michael Cohen pled guilty to a campaign violation in the first place.
Even former Clinton pollster Mark Penn wants to know why no one is being investigated for the Steele dossier. Millions of dollars were paid for obvious opposition research to benefit Hillary’s campaign, yet that’s not how any of those payments were reported.
In my view, the most reliable legal expert is Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. He is a die-hard liberal, who donated to and voted for Hillary Clinton. But he believes in the rule of law, and does not let his ideology distort his view of the law.
Wednesday night, Professor Dershowitz was on Fox News with Bret Baier. He demolished the Left’s arguments that Trump is guilty of violating campaign-finance laws. Here’s what he said:
“It’s not even a close question… I challenge any of those who say it’s a crime to find me anything in the criminal law that would make it a crime for a president personally or candidate personally to pay in order to save his own election. It’s just not against the law…
"Show me the statute. There is no statute that would make that a crime. It might be a misdemeanor for the campaign to fail to report that payment but it would be on the campaign not on the candidate… To talk about this as a ‘high crime and misdemeanor,’ it’s absurd.”
You can watch the exchange here. Read more of his analysis here.
Your Vote Matters
Now, that’s the law. But you need to understand this point: Impeachment is a not a legal process.
It is two-step political process conducted by Congress, and it only takes a simple majority vote of the House of Representatives to technically impeach the president. (If two-thirds of the Senate votes to convict, then the president would be removed from office.)
As President Gerald Ford famously said, an impeachable offense is “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
And just to prove that point, let me remind you that a handful of House Democrats already introduced five articles of impeachment against President Trump last year. None of them has anything to do with campaign-finance violations and only one is even remotely related to alleged Russian collusion.
Two of them involve the president’s criticism of “so-called judges” and his references to “fake news” as assaults on the judiciary and a free press!
Seriously, my friends, that is what some Democrats are trying to impeach Trump for — mocking the liberal media and liberal judges.
And that is why it is absolutely essential that everyone who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 shows up at the polls in 74 days to vote for conservative Republican congressional candidates.
Even if your vote in 2016 wasn’t necessarily for Trump but was just against Hillary, you still must vote against the extremist Democrats this year.
The Big Picture
Yesterday, I wrote about the “Big Picture,” and I want to return to that theme today.
If you are wavering or getting tired of this battle, let me remind you of just a few things this president has done and why he deserves our support:
Massive tax cuts.
A surging stock market.
A roaring economy.
A record rollback of regulations.
Renegotiating unfair trade deals.
Putting constitutionalist judges on the federal courts.
Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
Ending the Obama administration’s attacks on religious liberty.
Issuing multiple pro-life executive orders.
Getting serious about border security.
Rebuilding our military.
Crushing the ISIS caliphate.
Defusing North Korea for now.
Getting hostages released.
Getting tough with Russia.
Withdrawing from the absurd Paris climate accord.
Withdrawing from the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal.
Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Desperate Democrats
Senate Democrats are doing everything they can to try to derail Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Some declared their opposition to Kavanaugh even before he was nominated. Others have refused to even talk to him.
Even though Judge Kavanaugh has authored hundreds of opinions Democrats could scrutinize, they are demanding hundreds of thousands of documents that have nothing to do with his judicial philosophy. Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer is even threatening to sue to get these documents.
Now they have a new tactic. Democrats are suggesting that Michael Cohen’s guilty plea is evidence that Trump somehow stole the election. Therefore, his court appointments are illegitimate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, “The Senate must postpone Kavanaugh’s hearings until the ongoing [Mueller] investigations are complete.” Well, who knows when that will be?
Wednesday, Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor and declared Cohen’s plea to be “a game changer.” He said:
“At the very least, the very least, it is unseemly for the president of the United States to be picking a Supreme Court justice who could soon be effectively a juror in a case involving the president himself.”
Schumer then demanded that the Senate Judiciary Committee suspend plans for a scheduled confirmation hearing on Sept. 4th.
Senate Republicans appear to be holding fast. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) seemed receptive to Kavanaugh after their meeting this week, and he met with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) yesterday.
That Kavanaugh’s confirmation may come down to these two GOP “moderates” shows why it is so important for us to elect more pro-life, pro-family, pro-Trump conservatives to the Senate this year!
And there is good news on that front. Recent polling shows Republican challengers running strong in Florida, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.