Lawyers: Watergate Reporter Got Trump on Tape Admitting 'Clearly Impeachable Offense'
Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist and UCLA law professor Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, said Trump’s conduct was “clearly an impeachable offense.”
“Remember the high crimes and misdemeanors debate?” Litman wrote. “This is clearly an impeachable offense, albeit not a crime. The POTUS lied to the American people for political purposes & easily tens of thousands deaths ensued. How more stark and harmful a dereliction of public duty can you get?”
Litman later added that the president’s conduct amounted to a “clearly impeachable offense/violation of public trust with horrendous deadly consequences.”
Washington, D.C.-based national security attorney Brad Moss similarly said the tapes “should end [Trump’s] presidency,” adding, “If it doesn’t, god help us.”
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), who’s also an attorney, went so far as to categorize Trump’s behavior as “reckless homicide”—which, as a legal matter, is too extreme.
“Having read more of the excerpts in the Woodward book where [President Trump] is on tape, I’ve concluded this is not just dereliction of duty by POTUS. Trump repeatedly lied to the American people and that resulted in preventable deaths,” Lieu wrote. “This is reckless homicide.”
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