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Judge Andrew Napolitano has taken his general anti-Trump stance to its logical conclusion, saying he would &#8220;certainly&#8221; vote to impeach the president.
The Fox News senior judicial analyst made his pronouncement during an appearance on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom,&#8221; during which he said that that &#8220;the Democrats have credibly argued that [Trump] committed impeachable offenses,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-andrew-napolitano-trump-impeachment_n_5de8aca6e4b00149f73b77cd">Fox News</a>.
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“The easiest one, because this existed in Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, is obstruction of Congress,” said Napolitano. “So, by directing his subordinates to refuse to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas, whether it’s for testimony or for documents, that’s an impeachable offense. We know that from history, every time the House of Representatives has looked at that with respect to a president, they found it to be impeachable. On that, reasonable minds cannot disagree without rejecting history and without rejecting constitutional norms.”
When host Bill Hemmer asked the former judge if he would vote for impeachment in the House, Napolitano replied that he &#8220;certainly would.&#8221;
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“I certainly would.” Napolitano said.
Though Napolitano conceded that the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on the impeachment inquiry will do little to change public opinion against Trump, he warned that “letting Trump be Trump is not good enough under the Constitution.”
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“We don’t lower the bar because the president has unorthodox ways,” he said. “The bar is intentionally broad and even ambiguous as to what high crimes and misdemeanors are. We learned today that the Democrats apparently intend to include in there things we didn’t know they were going to include, like bribery, like the obstruction of justice allegations which were made by [former Special Counsel] Bob Mueller long before the Ukraine case came to the public’s attention.”
Judge Napolitano has consistently been on board with Democratic Party&#8217;s attacks on President Trump. He has also consistently been wrong in his predictions about the political fallout. For instance, in December of 2018, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foxs-napolitano-ample-evidence-indict-trump-co-james-barrett">he said</a> that the Department of Justice has &#8220;ample evidence&#8221; to indict President Trump based on the then-ongoing Mueller investigation.
“You think that a grand jury subpoena is a real thing that might come for President Trump?” former Fox News host Shep Smith asked at the time.
“Yes, I do,” replied Napolitano. “I think that Bob Mueller knows that he needs to lock the president in to a version of events before he takes the next step — whatever the next step is, whether it’s indictment or whether it’s a referral for impeachment.”
“Last week, in federal district court here in New York City, a federal judge at the end of Michael Cohen’s sentencing said the president orchestrated and paid for this crime,” Napolitano continued. “He was referring to one of the nine to which Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty.&#8221;
The Mueller report proved largely futile for Democrats, as the president was never indicted and Democrats never pursued impeachment based on its findings. Democrats and anti-Trumpers such as George Conway and Napolitano have decided to run with the &#8220;it&#8217;s all about the Constitution&#8221; line, despite the fact that many would say the Democrats&#8217; current impeachment inquiry is all about politics and the 2020 election.
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Judge Napolitano Would ‘Certainly’ Vote To Impeach Trump

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On Friday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) released a statement on Twitter concerning the newly released Mueller report.
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I have now read the redacted Mueller report and offer my personal reaction: <a href="https://t.co/ACnExskqXJ">pic.twitter.com/ACnExskqXJ</a>
&#8212; Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1119322471105216512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It is good news that there was insufficient evidence to charge the President of United States with having conspired with a foreign adversary or having obstructed justice. The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis. The business of government can move on.
Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the president. I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia &#8211; including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.
Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders.
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As of publication, Romney&#8217;s statement has more than 57,000 &#8220;likes,&#8221; and has been retweeted approximately 13,700 times.
The comments below Romney&#8217;s statement are a mixed bag:
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Romney you are a traitor. I&#8217;m disgusted by your fake integrity.
You were such a trash candidate that you gave America Obama..
You wish you were half the man Trump is.
&#8212; Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1119395069784727553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Romney you are a traitor. I&#8217;m disgusted by your fake integrity. You were such a trash candidate that you gave America Obama. You wish you were half the man Trump is.
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These words will become the most important words you ever spoke if you follow up with a primary challenge to Donald Trump. We need Republicans of great integrity to act with energy and determination to restore respect to our two party system.
&#8212; DeQuerton (@pelhamdan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/pelhamdan1/status/1119675628775706624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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These words will become the most important words you ever spoke if you follow up with a primary challenge to Donald Trump. We need Republicans of great integrity to act with energy and determination to restore respect to our two party system.
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Just switch parties and shut up already. You don&#8217;t see what the media and the Democrats are doing to this man on a daily basis. You&#8217;re a disgrace!
&#8212; Drew Kosta (@DrewKosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKosta/status/1119670458130022400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Just switch parties and shut up already. You don&#8217;t see what the media and the Democrats are doing to this man on a daily basis. You&#8217;re a disgrace!
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Thank you for being a voice of reason and patriotism.
&#8212; reesa glassman (@ReesaGlassman) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReesaGlassman/status/1119654563252928512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thank you for being a voice of reason and patriotism.
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I am sickened that I voted for you and once considered you an honorable person.
&#8212; Jeff Walker (@jeffawalker1) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffawalker1/status/1119679137826922496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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I am sickened that I voted for you and once considered you an honorable person.
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The comments on this tweet are a great illustration of the current state of politics in the US. A moderate stance just pisses off the polarized bases of BOTH parties. Politicians know this, and thus are forced to pivot policy to placate their partisan base.
&#8212; Christian Jones (@christiancjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/christiancjones/status/1119651087185661952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The comments on this tweet are a great illustration of the current state of politics in the US. A moderate stance just pisses off the polarized bases of BOTH parties. Politicians know this, and thus are forced to pivot policy to placate their partisan base.
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Sen. Romney isn&#8217;t the only conservative/libertarian voicing concern over the president&#8217;s behavior. On Thursday, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano stated (emphasis added):
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On obstruction of justice, that is interference with an investigation or a prosecution for an improper motive, the president is not exactly cleared because the report lists 11 instances in which the president attempted, or attempted to have others attempt to interfere with the investigation of his own campaign.
Now, the president can fire the director of the FBI and the president can tell the Attorney General who he wants prosecuted and who he doesn&#8217;t, but if he makes those decisions for a self-serving purpose, then the decision is not protected presidential behavior, it&#8217;s arguably obstruction of justice. What did Bob Mueller find? He found 11 of these instances.
Depending on how you look at them, it might be enough to prosecute, but the Attorney General has decided it&#8217;s not enough to prosecute.
But it did show a venal, amoral, deceptive Donald Trump instructing his aides to lie and willing to help them do so.
That&#8217;s not good in a President of the United States. It&#8217;s also not good here in New York City where he&#8217;s still under investigation for financial crimes. And I&#8217;m sorry to say the Donald Trump portrayed in the Robert Mueller report is the same one portrayed by Michael Cohen, who was his lawyer for ten years.
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It appears that the divide already defined between enthusiastic supporters of the president and those who support him only because they believe him to be the lesser of evils is only going to sharpen in the aftermath of the Mueller findings.

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Hero. Traitor. Crusader. Criminal. Journalist. Rogue. The many conflicting words people use in reference to the enigmatic Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are legion. Following his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45848/watch-wikileaks-julian-assange-arrested-removed-amanda-prestigiacomo">forced removal</a> from the Ecuadorian embassy in the U.K., people from all corners of the media have either rejoiced with contemptuous schadenfreude or mourned in regretful sorrow.
Over at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/judge-andrew-napolitano-julian-assange-hero">Fox News</a>, Judge Andrew Napolitano openly hailed the Wikileaks founder a &#8220;hero&#8221; for using his organization to publish information the &#8220;world had the right to see.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to tell you, in my opinion, Julian Assange is a hero,&#8221; said Napolitano on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221; &#8220;What he published was truthful information that the American public and the world had the right to see.&#8221;
Napolitano said that Assange will likely have a &#8220;show trial&#8221; if brought to the United States. Undoubtedly, he will be asked how he obtained emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign, though Napolitano believes Assange will simply say: &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m not going to tell you how I got Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails, but I got them and we published them.'&#8221;&#8203;
On Thursday, British authorities entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London to arrest Assange, who had been granted political asylum in 2012. The U.S. put in an extradition request in 2017 for Assange for his having allegedly conspired with Chelsea Manning to hack U.S. government databases in order to publish sensitive information. The underlying indictment states that, &#8220;in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications.&#8221;
&#8220;Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst, was using the computers to download classified records to transmit to WikiLeaks,&#8221; the indictment continued. &#8220;Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log on to the computers under a username that did not belong to her. Such a deceptive measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to determine the source of the illegal disclosures.&#8221;
Relations between Assange and the Ecuadorian government had become strained in recent years, especially in the wake of the 2016 election, when Wikileaks published damaging emails from the DNC showing that the organization colluded with the media to rig the primary election against Bernie Sanders to secure Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential nomination. Prior to Assange&#8217;s arrest, Ecuador announced it had withdrawn his asylum for &#8220;repeatedly violating international conventions and protocol.&#8221;
In 2018, Ecuador cut off Assange&#8217;s WiFi access in an attempt to curtail him from interfering in other countries&#8217; affairs. According to the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43573694">BBC</a>, the straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back was Assange&#8217;s questioning &#8220;accusations that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy and his daughter in the UK.&#8221; The Ecuadorian government viewed Assange&#8217;s move as something that could endanger their relations with the United Kingdom.
&#8220;The measure was adopted in the face of Assange&#8217;s failure to comply with a written commitment he assumed with the government at the end of 2017, under which he was obliged not to issue messages that would interfere with other states,&#8221; the Ecuadorian government said in a statement at the time.

Judge Napolitano: ‘Julian Assange Is A Hero’

Julian Assange

President Trump fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe after a lengthy battle of wills. And more than once he&#8217;s called McCabe a liar, as he did in April: &#8220;DOJ just issued the McCabe report &#8211; which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED!&#8221;
Now, McCabe wants immunity before he&#8217;ll talk to anyone about . . . anything.
McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee promise not to use his testimony to prosecute him after he appears before an upcoming congressional panel that will look into how senior officials at the FBI and Justice Department handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s private email server, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
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&#8220;Under the terms of such a grant of use immunity, no testimony or other information provided by Mr. McCabe could be used against him in a criminal case,&#8221; wrote Michael Bromwich, a lawyer for McCabe, to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, who has requested McCabe testify next week.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has quietly requested that several former officials appear in front of the Judiciary Committee to discuss the long-awaited internal Justice Department report, which sources say will detail a series of missteps surrounding the Justice Department and FBI&#8217;s investigation into Clinton&#8217;s handling of classified information while secretary of state.
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&#8220;We hereby request that the Judiciary Committee authorize a grant of use immunity to Mr. McCabe,&#8221; to ensure &#8220;no testimony or other information provided by Mr. McCabe could be used against him in any criminal case,&#8221; Bromwich wrote in his letter.
&#8220;If this Committee is unwilling or unable to obtain such an order [of immunity], then Mr. McCabe will have no choice but to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination,&#8221; Bromwich added.
But McCabe&#8217;s lawyer also said his client is &#8220;eager&#8221; to testify before the committee.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said the request is &#8220;very, very unusual.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to tell you, it&#8217;s unheard of for the number two person at the FBI saying, &#8216;You want me to testify? Give me immunity,'&#8221; Napolitano said on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends First&#8221; on Wednesday.

Fired FBI Official Wants Immunity For Testimony In Clinton Email Probe — Or He’ll Plead The Fifth

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Charles Grassley

James Comey

According to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-napolitano-fox-news-20170320-story.html/">The Los Angeles Times</a>, Fox News senior judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, has been suspended indefinitely because of the unverified claims he made that British intelligence, urged on by former President Barack Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower.
The Times reported Fox News did not respond to inquiries on Monday.
Napolitano&#8217;s absence on Monday was notable since the hearings regarding the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court commenced on Monday morning, an event that would likely have featured Napolitano&#8217;s commentary.
Anonymous sources told the Times that Napolitano is not expected to return to Fox News Channel in the near future. Napolitano was not available for comment.
On March 4, President Trump tweeted that Obama had wiretapped him:
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Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my &#8220;wires tapped&#8221; in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106">March 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Is it legal for a sitting President to be &#8220;wire tapping&#8221; a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837993273679560704">March 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I&#8217;d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837994257566863360">March 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529">March 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Napolitano then claimed unnamed sources said the British foreign surveillance agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, &#8220;most likely&#8221; provided Obama with transcripts of Trump&#8217;s recorded calls. On March 14, he <a href="https://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2017/03/14/52737/fnc-ff-20170314-napolitano-gchq-obama">said</a> on Fox News:
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Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command &#8211; he didn&#8217;t use the NSA, he didn&#8217;t use the CIA, he didn&#8217;t use the FBI, and he didn&#8217;t use the Department of Justice. He used GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ? That&#8217;s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database. So by simply having two people go to them saying President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving President-elect Trump, he is able to get it. And there is no American fingerprints on this.
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On March 16, Napolitano <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/16/andrew-napolitano-did-obama-spy-on-trump.html">wrote</a> on FoxNews.com, &#8220;By bypassing all American intelligence services, Obama would have had access to what he wanted with no Obama administration fingerprints.&#8221;
On Thursday, March 17, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/gchq-trump-wiretap-denial/">reiterated</a> Napolitano&#8217;s claims, stating, &#8220;Judge Andrew Napolitano made the following statement, quote, &#8216;Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command (to spy on Trump). He didn&#8217;t use the NSA, he didn&#8217;t use the CIA &#8230; he used GCHQ.&#8217;&#8221;
The British spy agency said Napolitano&#8217;s allegations were &#8220;utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.&#8221;
Trump <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-angela-merkel-air-differences-in-frosty-1st-meeting-4574298/">cited Napolitano </a>last Friday at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying, &#8220;&#8220;All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn&#8217;t make an opinion on it &#8230; You shouldn&#8217;t be talking to me. You should be talking to Fox (News).&#8221;
Fox News has been attempting to walk away from Napolitano&#8217;s comments; last Friday anchor Shepard Smith stated, &#8220;Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, in any way.&#8217;
But on Sunday, on Fox News&#8217; MediaBuzz, Napolitano still defended his comments, saying, he &#8220;reported what the sources told me, reported it accurately and I do believe the substance of what they told me.&#8221;
On Monday, FBI Director James Comey said he had &#8220;no information&#8221; that Trump&#8217;s claim of Obama wiretapping him was correct.

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