The awful truth hovering over today's hearings
By Greg Sargent
November 13, 2019 at 9:47 a.m. EST
... Trump’s position in this whole scandal isn’t simply that the facts genuinely show that he didn’t do anything wrong.
... At the core of his running argument, inescapably, is the more insidious declaration that Trump actually does possess the legitimate authority to use his office to systematically obliterate or badly weaken numerous mechanisms of accountability that are supposed to constrain him ...
Republicans will advance ... the proposition that Trump was perfectly within his legitimate authority to do much of what he stands accurately accused of doing ...
... they are arguing that there is no remedy. Trump is free to use his office to rig the next election to avoid accountability at the hands of voters, and to close down efforts to constrain him from doing that — and hold him accountable for it ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/13/big-awful-truth-about-trump-hovering-over-todays-hearings/
