Presidential Misconduct:
Some Historical Perspective
National Review,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
12/5/2019 6:39:36 AM
This week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee trotted out a trio of dispassionate legal experts to explain why the impeachment of Donald Trump was justified. They were there to bring a veneer of gravitas and erudition to what’s been, until now, a highly partisan affair.
But however smart people such as Michael Gerhardt, distinguished professor of constitutional law at University of North Carolina, might be, they aren’t immune from peddling partisan absurdities. Once Gerhardt argued that Trump’s conduct was “worse than the misconduct of any prior president,” we no longer had any intellectual obligation to take him seriously on the topic.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 12/5/2019 7:30:59 AM (No. 253208)
FTA: "...I can rattle off at least a dozen instances of presidential misconduct that are both morally and constitutionally “worse” than Trump’s blundering attempt to launch a self-serving Ukrainian investigation into his rival’s shady son."
Yep, good old NR. Witlessly recycling Democrat talking points in an article purporting to defend against unconstitutional attempts to remove our sitting president.
With "conservative" friends like these, who needs enemies?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Goose 12/5/2019 8:02:22 AM (No. 253254)
"dispassionate" legal experts
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jinx 12/5/2019 8:06:44 AM (No. 253261)
"They" say that they can impeach Pres. Trump even after he leaves office. Let's look at Obama's phone calls to Iran just before he sent 150 billion dollars in cash to Iran without telling Congress or us. Let's look at Obama's part in this planned Coup and see if he can be indited. Let's look at what went on between Bill and Loretta on that plane. Let's ask Hillary where she was when Amb. Stevens was being tortured and murdered. What was she doing and where was Obama? We have never had answers to those questions and the MSM never seemed to care. I am so sick of the Communist Party running the Presses these days. That is the scary party in all of this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/5/2019 9:25:25 AM (No. 253371)
Great article, I know I'm too late to the party but this is must read material.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
qr4j 12/5/2019 10:13:11 AM (No. 253446)
Good article overall. The snark near the top and at the bottom of the article annoys me, however. I used to be a regular at NRO. At best, I am now an occasional. I don't like NRO's disdain for Mr. Trump.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 12/5/2019 10:31:57 AM (No. 253462)
Dear democrats: We are very sorry that you attempted to interfere in the 2016 election by paying foreign people and governments to produce fake material, including the Steele dossier. It is very unfortunate that the Ukraine was involved in your treasonous activity. In the search for the predicate of the investigation that followed your criminal activities, it became an unanticipated, collateral problem when the Ukranian company (Burisma) was identified as a criminal organization that had connections to the fake dossier, and or other false information used by the democrats as a predicate for the treasonous activities. It highlighted the fact that Joe Biden had used his influence to interfere in the Ukraine's criminal investigations, for personal reasons, as well as his unlawful threat to cause harm to the Ukraine. The fact that Joe Biden's son mysteriously was awarded a position (not a job!) with the criminal Burisma further bolstered Joe Biden's criminal act, which Biden himself boasted about.
Also, very sadly (for you) you have dug yourselves a hole so deep with this impeachment scam that you have no way out! You now must carry on with the charade, because you have no alternative. You have insured that President Trump will be reelected in 2020, while your democrat party will be shamed.
Unintended consequences, like payback, are hell!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/5/2019 12:40:07 PM (No. 253574)
NR is wrapping everything they put out in TDS and therefore they always leave a bad smell in the air.
Providing a litany of historical Presidential to show that Trump is a "lesser offender" is pointless. Trump did nothing wrong. Period. That places you at comparing how each president ate breakfast and trying to level criticism over who did it better.
All this is about two things. FIrst, getting rid of Trump by ANY and ALL means. Second, making Trump too scared to take any actions by criticizing EVERYTHING he does. Fortunately, everything the dems try makes THEM look like idiots and Trump is too good to be intimidated by idiots.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/5/2019 7:14:20 PM (No. 253904)
If all future Republican Presidents, if there are any, are held to the same ultra high standard that the leftist and liberal Congressional Democrats are now trying to hold President Trump, those President’s would have little or no presidential discretion to carry out their constitutional duties without first getting an OK from the Democrats before he or she could even make telephone calls to foreign leaders. In that respect such President’s, to survive a four year term would essentially have to remain silent, and allow the Congressional Democrats to run the show, while keeping his sad seat warm in some White House corner.
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