{"id":40995,"date":"2020-01-30T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40995"},"modified":"2020-01-30T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:18:03","slug":"dershowitz-does-it-he-turns-the-trial-discussion-onto-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40995","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz does it! He turns the trial discussion onto himself!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I had this nagging rumble in the pit of my gut that Alan Dershowitz might end up hogging the limelight at the U.S. Senate trial of Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n

I did not anticipate him doing so in the manner that he did.<\/p>\n

Dershowitz took the floor this week in defense of Trump, who is standing trial after the House impeached him on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.<\/p>\n

The esteemed Harvard law professor, Dershowitz, long has been known as a grandstander, a fellow known to call attention to himself. Well, he did so during the Senate trial by positing what many observers believe is a preposterous notion.<\/p>\n

It is that the president can do anything he needs to do to help his re-election if he deems it in the national interest.<\/em> Anything at all! That includes seeking foreign government help in digging up dirt on a U.S. citizen who happens to be a potential opponent in the next presidential election.<\/p>\n

Professor Dershowitz is now the talk of the town. Hey, he’s the talk of the nation!<\/p>\n

I cannot pretend to know more about the U.S. Constitution than the distinguished legal professor. However, it seems to me that his idea borders on the idiotic.<\/p>\n

The framers could not possibly have written anything into the Constitution that allows for a president to do what Trump has done. He called the Ukrainian president; he took some expressions of gratitude from his colleague for all the support the United States has given Ukraine; he asks for more military aid; Trump says, “sure,” but then says he would like to ask Ukraine for a “favor, though.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump said he would hold up the aid until Ukraine announced an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n

Professor Dershowitz said in defense of Donald Trump that it’s OK for the president to do that?<\/p>\n

I do not think that is right. Not \u2026 at all!<\/p>\n\n

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I had this nagging rumble in the pit of my gut that Alan Dershowitz might end up hogging the limelight at the U.S. Senate trial of Donald John Trump. I did not anticipate him doing so in the manner that he did. Dershowitz took the floor this week in defense of Trump, who is standing … Continue reading Dershowitz does it! He turns the trial discussion onto himself!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9175,2253,8655],"class_list":["post-40995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-alan-dershowitz","tag-impeachment","tag-senate-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40996,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40995\/revisions\/40996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}