On Friday, Jason Johnson. politics editor of The Root and MSNBC contributor, attacked President Trump, saying that Trump’s attorney Alan Dershowitz had asserted that Trump could do whatever he wants, and that because Trump would listen to Dershowitz he might shut down voting in the entire state of California. Johnson snapped, “Imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I’ve decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting because we can’t trust their votes. We’re going to shut down voting in a state.”
Johnson was responding to Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who had stated that the president could not be impeached unless he committed an actual crime. Dershowitz had asserted:
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