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Rhiannon12866

(205,036 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:25 AM Jan 2020

The Daily Show: Trump Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Shocks the Impeachment Trial



The Trump impeachment proceedings move to the next phase with written questions from senators, and Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz moves to the next phase of ludicrous reasoning for acquitting the president.


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The Daily Show: Trump Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Shocks the Impeachment Trial (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jan 2020 OP
Who is Donald Trump? True Blue Drew Jan 2020 #1
Sometime in the distant future (assuming we have one) there will be entire courses taught Rhiannon12866 Jan 2020 #2
What many of us have been warning is now close to becoming an actuality. olegramps Jan 2020 #4
Dershowitz uses the Old Rich White Guy excuse Girl powers Jan 2020 #3
 

True Blue Drew

(88 posts)
1. Who is Donald Trump?
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:19 AM
Jan 2020
This scumsucking traitor is the American Viceroy to Vladimir Putin.

Okay, Alex, I'll continue with DOUCHEBAGS OF THE 21ST CENTURY for $1600.

Rhiannon12866

(205,036 posts)
2. Sometime in the distant future (assuming we have one) there will be entire courses taught
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:34 AM
Jan 2020

On this terrifying and aberrant phenomenon in our history. I keep seeing comparisons made to Germany in the 1930s and it makes my blood run cold.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
4. What many of us have been warning is now close to becoming an actuality.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 09:45 AM
Jan 2020

Dershowitz has articulated what has been the Republican Party's goal since the Nixon presidency. That is to transform the presidency into a virtual dictatorship that is makes the president's actions impervious to any question as to their lawfulness. Any action taken by the president will be deemed lawful and above any question by any citizen. The rank and file Republican has been so indoctrinated by the party propaganda that they totally unable to grasp that they are fully cooperating in their own virtual enslavement in a system that could deprive them of any rights fully analogous to what the founders of our Republic had successfully rejected in that no man is above the law.

We are experiencing a party whose hierarchy has obtained complete control of the party and its members that few will dare to challenge their most astonishing claims such that the president has the power to take any action to ensure his reelection. If this is achieved the only avenue to the challenge his authority will be massive demonstrations that would be deemed illegal resulting in the only recourse being revolution just as what was required during the formation of our nation to establish governance by the people and for the people and that no citizen is above the law.

Girl powers

(109 posts)
3. Dershowitz uses the Old Rich White Guy excuse
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 08:48 AM
Jan 2020

Did he think he was defending Jeffrey Epstein?
While in the real America -
Sandra Bland, while driving in Texas on her way to a job interview, neglected to
signal a lane change and three days later ends up dead in a texas jail. GGP

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