Derschowitz Just Gave The Game Away

Alan Derschowitz is a brilliant lawyer. He's made a career out of defending the worst of the worst his entire career, and takes it as a matter of pride that he's the "Devil's advocate" (which is the title of one of his autobiographical books, as a matter of fact). He's fresh off the defense of Jeffrey Epstein, no less.

So it is axiomatic that whomever Derschowitz defends is probably guilty as fuck.

But that's not the argument I wish to make. Instead, I'll point out something else. Because Derschowitz, while normally a brilliant lawyer, just gave the entire game away. His defense for Trump openly admits that the president is guilty of what he is accused of!

His "defense" is this: abuse of power is not an impeachable offense. Therefore, Trump shouldn't be impeached.

Think about that for a minute, and it should sink in what Derschowitz just did. He admitted Trump abused his power! But he's trying to argue it's not a big deal because this is power the president is allowed to abuse!

Oh, come on, really?

This argument didn't fly when Richard Nixon was in the White House. He tried to argue, famously, that "if the president does it, then it's not illegal." Well, the American people cried, "bullshit!" Nixon had to resign rather than face certain impeachment.

My, how times have changed.

Of course abuse of power is an impeachable offense! It's strange that Derschowitz, ordinarily so brilliant, could have made such a colossal blunder as to admit the president's guilt - as a defense! Then again, it might just be brilliant in the extreme. By taking this line of defense, he's admitting the president is guilty and thus planting a poisoned pill in the whole thing.

In the meantime, this is my new line of attack. Even Derschowitz admitted Trump did it!

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it!


Eric

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