but in this particular case the argument the president did something illegal prior to being in office but did so with the aim of gaining office becomes relevant to the impeachment discussion. yeah, i think so. i mean, i agree with what adam has to say there. an analogy to that might be when people procure their naturalization by fraud. they become a u.s. citizen but if you go back and unwind it and look at their application, if they lied to obtain citizenship, then a judge can strip someone of their citizenship. it s kind of the same concept. if you obtain this thing by fraud, you should not be permitted to keep the benefit of that fraud, so i also think this week president trump has never looked more frightened and more like a mobster than when he talked about that flipping should be illegal. unbelievable. people who talk like that are people who are really afraid of people who are telling the truth about them. so, i think that he is cornered and he knows it and he s very concer
this kind of conduct we re hearing about now if true is in that zone. this is alleged to be an effort by the president to keep citizens from knowing information they might want to know in voting for the president by corrupt means so it s the kind of thing the founders cared about a lot. so there s some legal scholars who think this is relevant. barbara, others say every dollar spent in a campaign is meant to influence the election, some is legal, some not. but in this particular case the argument the president did something illegal prior to being in office but did so with the aim of gaining office becomes relevant to the impeachment discussion. i agree with what adam has to say. an analogy to that might be when people procure their naturalization by fraud. they become a u.s. citizen but if you unwind it and look at their application, if they lied to obtain citizenship a judge
argument the president did something illegal prior to being in office but did so with the aim of gaining office becomes relevant to the impeachment discussion. i think so. i agree with what adam has to say there. an analogy to that might be when people procure their naturalization by fraud. they become a u.s. citizen but if you unwind it and look at their application, if they lied to obtain citizenship, a judge can strip someone of their citizenship. it s the same concept. if you obtain this thing by fraud you should not be permitted to keep the benefit of that fraud so i also think this week president trump has never looked more frightened and more like a mobster than when he talked about that flipping should be illegal. unbelievable. people who talk like that are people who are afraid of people telling the truth about them. i think that he is cornered and he knows it and he s very
on the other hand, you know, while that seems like a petty thing and an inargable thing, that might really get under the skin of the president when it comes to somebody who has become his most important ally on capitol hill. one of the things they did on that impeachment discussion is they lied to their contributors with this notion that it is senate procedure to immediately take up a bill of impeachment from the house of representatives and the senate can do no other business. the house of representatives sent over the impeachment of a federal judge in 1988 in august. the senate didn t take up the trial until 14 months later. and even then they did it part-time, a couple of hours a day here and there. it doesn t in any way clog up the senate on the confirmation of brett kavanaugh. so my reading of that was then just lying to their enthuiasts
today? and i m not talking about democrats. i m talking about the republicans. because that s all that really matters. that s for this political and potential impeachment discussion. but it s a pretty devastating memo. and of course the memo and the conversations lead up to him being fired. i think that s the action that ultimately triggered all of this and is at the heart of lot of concern. when i read all these pages where i see sort of a bureaucratic nerd that is putting down for the record every single detail, right down to color of the wuls, what was being served for dinner. they have this private meet, just the two of them in the greenroom at the white house. although, critics of mr. comey will say she s a grand standard, a showboat, what is it, from the spectator of someone putting him down for the record or what s the story here?