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WATCH: Harvard Law Professor Dismantles Democrats’ Hopes Of Using Bolton Book To Convict Trump

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US President Donald Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz departs the Senate chamber after the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 27, 2020. - White House lawyers were to resume their defense of President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial Monday as explosive revelations from former national security advisor John Bolton increased pressure on Republicans to call him as a witness.
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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a self-described liberal Democrat, told the U.S. Senate on Monday that even if the allegations in former national security adviser John Bolton’s book were true, it would not matter because his allegations do not constitute an impeachable offense.

“The claim that foreign policy decisions can be deemed abuses of power based on subjective opinions about mixed or sole motives, that the president was interested only in helping himself, demonstrate the dangers of employing the vague subjective and politically malleable phrase ‘abuse of power’ as a constitutionally permissible criteria for the removal of a president,” Dershowitz explained. “Now it follows it follows from this that if a president — any president — were to have done what The Times reported about the content of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense.”

“Let me repeat: nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,” Dershowitz continued. “That is clear from the history, that is clear from the language of the Constitution, you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like ‘quid pro quo’ and ‘personal benefit.'”

“It is inconceivable that the framers would have intended so politically loaded and promiscuously deployed a term as ‘abuse of power’ to be weaponized as a tool of impeachment it is precisely the kind of vague open-ended and subjective term that the framers feared and rejected,” Dershowitz added.

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