Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway struck again on Tuesday, this time making a slam-dunk case for why President Donald Trump’s criminal misconduct is even worse than anything former President Richard Nixon did during Watergate.
The Mueller report not only documents at least ten instances of Trump committing obstruction of justice to protect himself, those same instances detail Trump’s effort to sabotage a legitimate federal investigation into Russia’s attack on our democratic process in 2016, which makes Trump’s misconduct even more sinister because Nixon’s misconduct, as Conway explained in an op-ed calling on Congress to impeach, Watergate was a clumsy domestic burglary while Russian hacking is an attack on our country by a foreign power, as scholar Philip Bobbit explained in own response defending impeachment.
Conway concurred with Bobbit’s analysis and went on to explain why.
Exactly right … https://t.co/CfIhw7awbo
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
… in fact, it’s why Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation:https://t.co/XUNHA5O0Gy pic.twitter.com/rj2YdCbvc4
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
Put another way, a president takes an oath in which he “solemnly swear[s] [to] support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Here, in attempting to subvert the investigation into Russia’s effort’s to interfere ….
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
… with our electoral process, Trump violated that oath and put his own vanity and self-interest above that of the nation and people whose laws and Constitution he swore to faithfully execute and uphold. If that’s not impeachable, nothing is.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
This is a simple point, and it doesn’t turn on the kaleidoscopic meaning of collusion or the criminal-law technicalities of obstruction. It goes to something very fundamental:
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
Do we have a president who is loyal to the country, or loyal only to himself? When you put the question that way, and the object of the question is Donald J. Trump, now that we know all that we know about him and have seen all that we have seen, there can only be one answer.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
And for the Framers of our Constitution, if you posed to them the question of whether the impeachment clause was directed at public officials who placed their own selfish interests above those of the nation’s, they would have said, yes, that’s exactly what we had in mind.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
For them, the case of Donald J. Trump would have been an easy one. It should be an easy one for us as well.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
Conway then pointed out that impeachment is more than being about whether a president committed a crime.
Exactly. Impeachment isn’t merely about whether a president committed crimes—though this one did—it covers dereliction of a president’s high duties. A president who tries to sabotage an investigation into a foreign hostile power’s attack on our nation surely fits that bill.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
House Democrats have a responsibility to impeach Trump. Failing to do so lets him get away with his crimes and sends a message to every future president that they, too, can commit crimes in office without consequence. Like Conway said, this should be an easy call to make. And if Democrats won’t do it, they are just as guilty of not standing up to Trump as the Republicans.
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