What was impeachment for if not this?
by digby
Former Republican congressman David Jolly said this on MSNBC yesterday. I thought it was good:
There were three architects of the impeachment language, if you will. James Madison, George Mason and Edmund Randolph. And they were each concerned that the president may one day engage in activity that was not criminal but was impeachable.
Madison was concerned about a president who would engage in perfidy, deceit, untrustworthiness. He was worried about a president who would be disloyal to our nation in dealing with a foreign nation.
Randolph was concerned about a president who would secure emoluments from the office, profit from the presidency.
Mason was concerned about someone who would tamper with elections or electors. He was concerned that he would tamper with investigations into himself. This is the presidency that the authors of the impeachment language feared.
This [Trump’s] was the presidency they were worried about.
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