The four witnesses yesterday (Wednesday, Dec 4th):
Johnathan Turley, George Washington University Law professor Michael Gerhardt, USC law professor Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School (and for my money the craziest of the bunch) Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School professor (a close second)
Four university academics, purportedly Constitutional law experts, only Turley am I familiar with, only Turley living up to that scholarly billing and presenting his arguments with detached objectivity. The other three were visibly unhinged from the outset, and couldn't restrain spitting contempt and insults at the president at every opportunity. And as was revealed by House Republicans, all three of the liberals on the panel have vocally expressed their contempt for president Trump since 2016, have written editorials blasting Trump and calling for his impeachment, long before there was ever a July 25th phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky to rationalize impeachment.
Rabid liberal partisans, exposed as heavy Democrat campaign donors for years, and particularly high donations to Hillary in 2016. Who have participated in anti-Trump activism, who have written newspaper editorials calling for Trump to be impeached since 2017, who have ranted their anti-Trump/antti-conservative lunacy in videotaped appearances and programs, who in hearings today spit venom at Trump and his family, at Trump's son Baron, and who just couldn't restrain themselves for even a day to try and make some pretense of detached scholarly objectivity.
Far from detached objectivity where these three liberal scholars ever attempted to weigh the legal precedent for pursuing impeachment of Trump, their personal Democrat campaign donations, their published writings, their videotaped rhetoric at public appearances, and their bristling liberal contempt, all abundantly cited in hearings, make clear these "Constitutional legal scholars" (Turley the one exception) are rabid Democrat partisans looking for ANY pretense to impeach and remove Trump, as they clearly said in their own cited words, long before there was a Ukraine/impeachment issue.
The 5 minutes you had to see out of today's House hearings testimony:
Jonathan Turley is the ONLY one before hearings who cited a universal standard for impeachment, and in his detached politeness made the Democrats on the House Committee, and the liberal activist law professors sitting next to him, all look like fools.
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham all had a field day ripping aaprt the stupidity of Democrats on display, with a lot of playfulness and humor. No need to be mean, it was right there for all to see, easy pickings. For all the seriousness of the issue, it was very fun to watch, more like Greg Gutfeld's program.
I think Jonathan Turley's opening statement, and later responses to questions, are a persuasive indictment of the Democrat rush to impeachment. As Newt Gingrich suggested, Republicans should bomb the airwaves with commercials made from clips of it, and that alone might stop impeachment in its tracks. Impeachment is already on its knees and painfully crawling, two weeks of commercials might be the death blow to this ill-conceived impeachment push.
