The constitution requires High Crimes and Misdemeanors to impeach a President. In Matt Lewis's latest post on the left wing site the Daily Beast Lewis fails to point to one crime committed by the President. Lewis wants to skip over that fact and force Trump to mount a defense. Lewis can then claim it is a weak defense.
For weeks Lewis has been groping for something, anything that is impeachable. He, like his allies on CNN and the Democrat party, have failed.
A couple weeks ago Lewis thought the magic words were "quid pro quo." In this latest post he makes no mention of this Latin phrase. Lewis in the past used the poll tested words "Bribery" and "distortion." Lewis even tried to claim campaign finance violation for the help from Ukraine. Truly laughable.
No, none of that nonsense is found in his latest piece. So what now has Lewis come up with? I am not making this up, "attempting to coerce a foreign leader into announcing an investigation into Joe Biden."
One it never happened, and two it is not a crime.
But Lewis fails to mention the two articles that passed the judiciary committee today. I wonder why?
They are "obstruction of congress", a made up crime and "abuse of power." On the first article, the legislative and executive branches are equal. And if they are at loggerheads, the executive can fight in court. Not a crime.
Second article "Abuse of power" is equally ridiculous. The executive has a right to say to a foreign leader, "Do me a favor and find out what happened." The legislative branch can't restrict the speech of the executive.
Lewis says:
"To be sure, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton both faced impeachment in their second term. Donald Trump is exceptional in that he has been quicker to commit obviously impeachable offenses."
What impeachable offenses??
I think Lewis knows that there are no High crimes, or even a low crime committed, because in his title, he uses the word "Behavior." Sorry not the constitutional standard. If Lewis were a constitutional conservative he'd know that.
The rest of Lewis's article are digs at Trump supporters, "cultish." and other conservatives. Not worth a response.
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