****LIVE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 1/23/20 THREAD 1****

[Mersky]

42. Good catch. Here's the language from Hamilton's letter.

“When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’ ”

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Pulled the language from a WaPo piece written by Ron Chernow - the historian who spoke at the WH correspondent’s dinner last year. And, who consulted on the production of the Hamilton musical.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/18/hamilton-pushed-impeachment-powers-trump-is-what-he-had-mind/