Alan Dershowitz seems to be rather optimistic for Trump’s chances against impeachment. The Washington Examiner reports:
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday he sees no threat of impeachment against President Trump based on claims from his former lawyer that Trump directed the payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“We’re far away from impeachable offense or criminal offense on the part of the president,” he said on Fox News.
.@AlanDersh: “We’re far away from impeachable offense, or criminal offense on the part of the president.” pic.twitter.com/dU0qalDOSQ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 22, 2018
Dershowitz said that while Democrats will likely clamor for impeachment, that remedy was designed for major crimes, not “minor derelictions” like the sort of campaign finance violations committed by most campaigns.
“You need a high crime and misdemeanor. Every campaign has violated some technical election law,” he said.
Dershowitz is a reassuring voice for Trump supporters after two of Trump’s close aides were convicted yesterday.
Sounds like we would have to Impeach all of the Living Past Presidents then, if they all have committed these types of Offenses.
President Trump may have some character flaws and he certainly doesn’t have an endearing personality. But he has done an amazing job as President despite all the opposition he has had and the foot dragging by his own party. Just think what could be accomplished and the progress we could make if he had the support of Congress!
TRUMP has to fight with Anti-American obstructionist that rather suffer the country consequences than loose power. That is why they are crying so much.
Hes got the guts and is not a push over. Not a quitter he’s a FIGHTER.
The clock is ticking. Both the act of offering false evidence…or even preparing false evidence make up an automatic felony. It is characterized by a criminal intent to knowingly present the evidence and also to prepare false evidence to be used in a legal proceeding. Each carries serious consequences.
Using a politically paid-for dossier constructed of whole cloth to instigate FISA warrants resulting in the appointment of a Special prosecutor is exactly such a crime. When this entire diversionary fiasco is demonstrated as a concerted conspiratorial effort with dual aims constructed under false pretense — A) to divert attention from the crimes of the Clinton Criminal Syndicate and B) to take down a legitimately-elected president by a cabal of criminals whose participation in the Clinton syndicate is MANIFEST – the entire Special Prosecutor game will be UP and the inspectors will become the inspected!
It will depend on a political event: the midterm elections. Depending on who takes control of the House, the criminal cabal will either disintegrate with its many players under criminal indictment, or it will result in the impeachment of the president.
In either case, President Trump will remain president. Prepare for an October Mueller surprise. It’s the last gasp of a monstrous Deep State criminal enterprise. Show up and VOTE or this country is TOAST!
AND Dershowitz would know, if anyone, but he communists will push ahead to their detriment.
If they can’t get him assassinated I’m sure the democrats will try impeachment. But if Bill Clinton walked free of impeachment after sitting in the people’s white house and getting his BJs I don’t see this president getting impeached. The one thing that the media has ignored is that any payments that may have been made to Stormy Daniels and any others was not offered. NO !! They and their lawyers actually committed BLACKMAIL for the money and keeping quiet. Then the lawyers saw a way to make a lot more money from the democrats by offering to put the sleaze out there. PURE BLACKMAIL which I believe is against the law itself.
This President is amazing.After all the Bullshit and accusations he has had to endure he still is moving at Warp speed to try and do what’s right for America. The Dumbocraps have done nothing to improve the lives of the American people. Resistance and obstruction gets old. But Let them bury themselves.
I am fully for Trump. I pray for his entire family and especially for Trump himself every night. and for every member of his cabinet, their families and friends. I also pray for Mike Pence and his family and friends. Trump has already done a lot of good things for our country and that bugs the Democrats. Boy, what good Trump could accomplish for America if the Democrats would support his efforts instead of fighting him. I actually feel like God sent Trump to our country when he was so badly needed. If you are a praying person join me in my nightly prayers for our country and Trump.
The socialist Democrats would rather see America starve and fail just to be in power, Sad.
So what are we gonna do?
First we need to Pray!!!!!! And then Vote!
Pray and get out and vote to make sure we keep what we have now amd that the democrats never rule us again.
So what are we gonna do? First, we’ve Got to Pray!!!! and then Vote!!!!!
The question of an attorney representing a client in a financial settlement happens to be one of the legal functions between client and his attorney. Of course, the Left will attempt to make the worst of it, but that settlement was properly negotiated with the claimant’s agreement also.
The Leftists have so few issues to exaggerate that any issue involving Trump’s prior to presidency legal business arrangements, via his attorney, will be represented by the Commies as “the end of the world.”
If the Commies contest the truth of the matter, let them spend to their last dollar the issue of legality in a court of law.
Mr. Trump is the extreme example of a lying, racist , self centered, prejudiced American male. I’m ashamed when I’m abroad to be associated with such an American man. What an embarrassing example of an American male to show to the world, I believe that by far most American males are not like him, but honest, trustworthy, with high moral standards as well as loyal husbands,
Maybe this is not an impeachable offense but as a strong conservative and fiscally responsible person I almost wish it was so we could have a decent, worldly as well as fully respected in the country, as president to bring the country back to a united, as opposed to divided, fractured country.
I will pray for you just as I pray for Trump and Pence and their families tonight. It is sad to hate as you seem to do.
I don’t believe that you are a strong conservative person because you had branded our president as a lying racist, self-centered, and prejudiced American male. You know what, I am proud of our president Donald Trump because he is the only American president that is real – a president that is down to earth inspite of his wealth, he can relate to the ordinary person, was he branded the “blue-collared billionaire,” yes, he is a billionaire that wants the best for the USA! Yes, he is very frank and direct but that makes him an effective leader! He is not racist! Anything that he does, he is always misunderstood. Being a veteran of the USA, I am proud to say that finally, there’s a president that really take care of our veterans and the military. I like the way he is doing with immigration laws. Actually, these laws had been in placed before but it’s now that he really these laws to be enforced the way they were enacted and should be enforced. I am sick and tired of these illegal aliens that came to this country without legal paperwork. I came to this country as a legal immigrant and I am not really happy how these illegals are even so proud to expose themselves publicly and breaking the law. Because of these sanctuary cities, it will be a hard time for our federal government to solve our illegal immigration problem.
Ashamed to be an American? While you are abroad? Well, sorry about that. I’m ashamed of Americans who are ashamed to be American. You wouldn’t even be abroad if it wasn’t for
This country, my advice is to stay abroad, live there, my guess is that you Would come Crawling back. I’m proud to be American, I’m ashamed Of you.
I am so embarrassed that America has a C Sawin to travel abroad and represent what America not. C Swain I suggest you stay the next time you leave this country, your not wanted in America.
C. Swain, Calling Trump a racist is like calling Martin Luther King Jr a Black supremacist. It contradicts everything about the man. As a businessman he employed many minorities and received accolades for his work from some of the same people now opposed to him as president. More Black Americans than ever now have jobs with Trump as president. Obama did everything he could to keep Blacks down, sending their jobs overseas and Trump brought those jobs and more back. It is embarrassing that you fall for the Left’s Big Lie techniques. They lie outrageously. The lie is exposed. They repeat the same lie. Then they stay silent for a while. But soon come back to the lie now repeating it as if it never was exposed.
Swain,
For Gods sake quit using “racist” . Trump has not shown that he is racist. Show me a politician that has not lied “EVER” or is not self centered and then we can hold Trump to that standard.
I have been in public eye, here is a news flash, you cannot survive if you are not self centered and you must lie or not tell the whole truth in many cases.
Trumps a dick, but he is doing some good things for the country, reducing legislation, trying his best to enforce the laws on immigration, trying level tariffs , ect.
Do yourself a favor and read “Russia Hoax” to know what kind of evil with which trump and our Nation are dealing.
The Democrats know that they cannot Impeach the President this is just more of their Obstructionism, this is just one more thing to muddy up the waters so that they don’t have to face the real problems facing this country. They keep everyone stirred up about BS and they sit and do nothing and try to take the moral high ground all the while spewing more hate and discontent.
The have no plan, they have no solutions, they have no leadership; all that they have Obstructionism and their hatred for the President
Taking the impeachment to a court is the last thing Obama and the crats should do. Why, in a court of law they would have to bring forth evidence of an impeachable crime. i.e.-the truth. Can they get a kangaroo impeachment? All they have is fabricated “evidence” based on a purchased document!
Unfortunately impeachment is a popularity contest. If you have enough legislators who are loyal first to their party and not at all loyal to America or justice, a president can be impeached for skipping breakfast. Send a message to the political sellouts, the Democrats, Socialists, and RINOs who only care about making themselves wealthy while in office. Vote Out the liberals.
The problem is as Gerald Ford once said when asked what constituted impeachable acts said, “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.”
Should the Democrats gain power in the House, it’s very likely they will successfully impeach Trump. However, I highly doubt enough Republicans in the Senate would vote to convict Trump.
Kind of the reverse of how the Democrats covered Clinotn’s ass when he was impeached….is that what you are saying?
I’ve not seen so many dumb people in America, as we have at this moment. President Trump has done more to help our country than any other President I can remember. The more good he brings to us, the more these idiots attempt to accuse him of anything & everything. It appears to me that these dumb people, simply hate anything America. Are they all on drugs???? I guess they wish to impeach him for the lowest unemployment rate in years & years, keeping his promises, stopping illegals from flooding our America by breaking our laws & the list is endless. Why in this world would anyone even have the word “impeachment” in their mouth. He has only done great things for this country & is still doing so. None of this makes any intelligent sense…….
Alan is spot on. Mr Trump has no exposure. Why hasn’t Mueller filed any charges?
There is no chargeable offense.
Yes he , Alan Dershowitz is probably one of the finest Law brilliant minds in the industry
Democrats don’t want to float the impeachment now , Pelosi said its not priority. She wants the democrats to win the midterm election so she can be the Speaker of the House and then impeach . Power will corrupt the country if the democrats are in the majority.
just being a democrat would be grounds for impeachment. their communist crap violates the constitution
Amen to that! What a bunch of drunken idiots.
[yawn]. Will the mentally deranged Dumbocrats ever take a break and get a life?
It’s doubtful…..they are not the brightest bulbs in the circle of light. .
Excellent post William.
Alan Dershowitz has really shown me he is an honest lawyer (never thought I’d say that about a lawyer). The left and media are so filled with hate at the thought of losing their power and control they are bouncing off walls to see it returned. Alan is saying they are overlooking the reality for their fantasies.
Democrats don’t want to float the impeachment now , Pelosi said its not priority. She wants the democrats to win the midterm election so she can be the Speaker of the House and then impeach . Power will corrupt the country if the democrats are in the majority.
CONTRAST COHEN’S CONFESSION TO THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HILLARY PAID TO A DEMOCRATIC LAW FIRM PERKINS?COIE, WHICH, IN TURN, PAID OUT MONEY TO POLITICAL RESEARCH FIRM FUSION GPS AND BRITISH EX-SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE WITHOUT LISTING THEM ON ANY CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE FORM — THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT HIRING SPIES TO DO OPPOSITION RESEARCH IN RUSSIA IS A CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE, AND YET, NO PROSECUTORIAL RAIDS HAVE BEEN SPRUNG ON THE LAW FIRM, OR FUSION GPS OR STEELE. REASON: IT DOES NOT “SCREW” TRUMP.
I don’t think that’s the reason. the reason is that the Democrats are fans of unlimited government power. Trump threatens that tyranny, and the Democrats could almost taste absolute victory over the public during the Obama administration, which used the power of government to corrupt everything.
They aren’t interested in just screwing Trump. They are true believers that the tyranny of the left will give them the ultimate power to use government to control the population, and to expand their capacity to steal from the commonwealth.
These folks are far more dangerous than they present. They represent the same threats to the health of the society as Maduro, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and the rest. these folks are not afraid of unfettered government. They want to be its beneficiaries. The “communists” were “useful idiots” as far as Stalin was concerned; they simply guaranteed him ultimate power over everyone.
Well said. The democrats are only interested in absolute power. If they gain that genocide at some level could become a reality.
So very true
I have to agree the left side little communist are really dangerous and they been dangerous a long time; considering, looking at the Clintons and how these carpet baggers ever got into the position and to the level of power they have reached in the United States government is beyond believable