Trump lawyer: Foreign intervention into election can be considered in the nations interest

[RandySF]

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Put the bong down and step away, Alan...

[djg21]

2. What nation's best interest?

Dershowitz is a self-important tool who will do anything to stay relevant. Russia’s interests don’t matter for purposes of this discussion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Douchowitz is making the insane argument that

encouraging foreign intervention in a US election to help Trump get re-elected is in the national interest because Trump thinks it's in the national interest. L'etat c'est moi and all that.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. Please don't give Donny-shit-for-brains any ideas about being the re-incarnation of Louis XIV.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Trump is already arguing that he deserves a third term.

He says all the investigations have cut into his golf time, uh, executive time, uh, rally time...

[Different Drummer]

6. Something called the U.S. Constitution says otherwise.

DD

[madinmaryland]

8. The constitution still exists? Who knew!

[Different Drummer]

9. I think we're witnessing the end of its life, sadly.

DD

[Different Drummer]

5. Don't know where Dershowitz gets such nonsense.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Wasn't this act literally the reason the founders finally put impeachment into the constitution?

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732571895/fear-of-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections-dates-from-nations-founding

The founders of American democracy could not have anticipated the technology of the 21st century or many of the other changes that have redefined the republic they created. But they clearly foresaw one challenge that faces the inheritors of their handiwork – the threat of foreign interference in our elections.

The fear of foreign interference was a driving issue in the conversations of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Several features of the Constitution that the framers produced that summer had their origins in this fear, as former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter noted in a 2017 speech.

Potter, now president of the Campaign Legal Center, said, "The founders took steps to guard against such [interference] by including in our Constitution guardrails like the requirement that the president be a 'natural born citizen.'

[struggle4progress]

11. "You can't impeach me for having Dershowitz drawn and quartered on the National Mall!

Our campaign modeling suggested I could win some votes by doing that, so it was in the national interest! I only did it to improve my chances of re-election! "

[Mc Mike]

12. Also, slavery is freedom, truth is ignorance.

[DFW]

13. Dershowitz would have claimed that John Wilkes Booth acted in the nation's interest, too.

And therefore deserved at the worst censure and six months probation..........

[coti]

14. No, Alan. That destroys people's faith in elections and our democracy.

It's not ok. At all.