Harvard Law professor and highly acclaimed Constitutional expert Laurence Tribe has spent the last week absolutely hammering President Donald Trump on Twitter.
From Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ resignation to Trump’s decision to surrender in Syria to Trump cornering himself and making himself more vulnerable to impeachment, Tribe had an opinion for all of it beginning a week ago, and he did not hold back.
The legal expert has been trolling Trump since he took office, keeping his followers informed about all the legal troubles the president has embroiled himself in for the last two years.
But this Twitter barrage upped the ante and made it clear that Tribe has zero f*cks to give.
First, he nailed Trump in the wake of Mattis resigning in protest and warned the country about why Trump is now more dangerous.
General Mattis’s resignation as Secretary of Defense on the basis of principle — in the wake of Putin’s wet kiss for Trump’s anti-American treachery — is enormously important. It’s hard to imagine GOP Senators, however supine, not starting to peel off. Trump will soon be alone.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 20, 2018
The sails and propellers are coming off the ship of state. We’re in full meltdown mode. There are no lifeboats. It’s time for the captain to find some face-saving way to turn the controls over to others before the remaining crew resigns and the surviving passengers drown.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 20, 2018
No U.S.Secretary of Defense has ever resigned in protest before. @BeschlossDC rightly stressed the danger of a President Trump with a Sec Def too weak to push back against his most reckless and dangerous moves. If you’re not scared, perhaps you don’t understand what’s going on.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 21, 2018
He then suggested Trump is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The Taliban are our “enemy” under the AUMF. Trump is giving them “aid and comfort.” Just saying. https://t.co/B63hwzr75X
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 21, 2018
Tribe also pointed out that Americans support indicting a sitting president.
It matters enormously that ordinary people see indicting a sitting president as something that’s as American as baseball and apple pie — nothing like the convulsive constitutional step of impeachment and removal. Lawyers shouldn’t ignore such intuitions. https://t.co/Sq14dD2Mi2
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 22, 2018
He flirted with the possibility of Nancy Pelosi becoming president should Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence both be impeached next year.
I second the motion @McFaul @NancyPelosi A super idea, for all kinds of reasons . . . One never knows what the future might bring . . . Madam Speaker-to-be, Madam Preside. . . .?????? ? https://t.co/BcRjUj1UcB
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 22, 2018
Trump went on to observe that Trump has personal financial reasons for attacking the Federal Reserve.
This is a chilling truth. It’s a reminder that Trump’s every move is dictated by greed, self-interest, a short time horizon, cowardice, and a complete disregard for law, decency, humanity, and the interests of the great mass of Americans. https://t.co/Kmt1ASjOdP
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 23, 2018
Which could be an impeachable offense.
Recklessly risking massive economic damage to millions of ordinary citizens in order to lower the interest payments on the president’s own huge loans isn’t just terrible policy. It’s a dangerous abuse of presidential power and could form part of a pattern of impeachable offenses
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 23, 2018
He had strong words for Trump fancying himself a “hero” for surrendering in Syria.
You are a f&@ing idiot, Mr. President https://t.co/bbhVe0ltKD
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 23, 2018
Tribe threw cold water on Trump’s possible attempt to prevent the Cabinet from invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.
It takes VP + 1/2 the cabinet to invoke the 25th and pass the baton to Congress. Unclear whether “acting” members count. Trump may not know that 1/2 of zero = 0. https://t.co/4nbzYd5L54
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 26, 2018
On Wednesday, he continued the onslaught.
Add one more: a president who’s a fuc@;ing idiot with no moral compass or respect for law who’s compromised by foreign dictators and may have committed felonies to win office ⬇️ https://t.co/Q4pbqXTslQ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 27, 2018
And concluded by mocking Trump for outing convert Navy Seal Team Five members in Iraq.
But her emails! https://t.co/pTw0MAKql1
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 26, 2018
All in all, it was an unrestrained but very welcome string of Twitter bombs dropped by Tribe that put Trump in his place.
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