PLFT PHILBIN HAD TO FILIBUSTER AN ANSWER AS TO THE GENERAL
REASONS THEY MIGHT CALL
IMMUNITY.
IMMUNITY. ANOTHER MOMENT STOOD OUT
AMAZINGLY.
AMAZINGLY. ON MONDAY NIGHT MR. DERSHOWITZ
ADVANCED A SCARCELY BELIEVABLE
ARGUMENT OF IMPEACHMENT.
YESTERDAY HE WENT EVEN FURTHER,
SUGGESTING THAT BECAUSE
PRESIDENTS BELIEVE THEIR
REELECTION IS IN THE PUBLIC
INTEREST, WHEN THEY DO THINGS TO
BENEFIT THEIR REELECTION, IT IS
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND THEY
CAN BASICALLY DO WHATEVER THEY
WANT.
WANT. I HEAR HE’S CORRECTING IT ON TV
TODAY.
TODAY. THAT SEEMS TO BE
MR. DERSHOWITZ’S PATTERN.
HE GIVES A STATEMENT ON THE
FLOOR AND THEN SPENDS THE NEXT
DAY CORRECTING IT.
WHAT A LOAD OF NONSENSE.
BY DERSHOWITZ’S LOGIC, PRESIDENT
NIXON DID NOTHING WRONG IN
WATERGATE.
WATERGATE. HE WAS JUST BREAKING INTO THE
DNC TO HELP HIS REELECTION,
WHICH OF COURSE IS IN THE PUBLIC
INTEREST, ACCORDING TO
DERSHOWITZIAN LOGIC.
DERSHOWITZIAN LOGIC. THE DERSHOWITZ ARGUMENT,
FRANKLY, WOULD UNLEASH A
MONSTER.
MONSTER. MORE APTLY, IT WOULD UNLEASH A
MONARCH.
MONARCH. THINK ABOUT THIS.
ACCORDING TO DERSHOWITZ,
IMPEACHMENT IS ONLY FOR CRIMINAL
OFFENSES.
OFFENSES. MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ARGUES THAT A
SITTING PRESIDENT CAN’T BE
INDICTED, CAN’T INDICT FOR
CRIMINAL CONDUCT, CAN’T IMPEACH
FOR NONCRIMINAL CONDUCT.
THE PRESIDENT COULD BLACKMAIL A
FOREIGN COUNTRY INTO POISONING
OUR ELECTIONS AND GET AWAY WITH
MURDER LITERALLY, SO LONG HE’S
IN OFFICE.
IN OFFICE. REPUBLICANS HAVE GONE FROM
DENYING THE WHAT THE PRESIDENT
DID TO NORMALIZES IT BY CLAIMING
EVERY PRESIDENT DOES IT, TO NOW
SAYING THERE’S NOTHING WRONG
WITH IT EVEN IF HE DID IT.
IT’S INCREDIBLE, THE LENGTHS