Legal experts: Impeachment inquiry proves GOP’s ‘governing philosophy’ is shameless narcissism

It isn’t hard to predict the eventual outcome of the impeachment inquiry that President Donald Trump is facing: Trump will likely be indicted on articles of impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives — where Democrats have a majority — but acquitted in a trial in the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate. Legal experts Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic don’t disagree with that scenario, which they discuss in a November 25 article for The Atlantic. And impeachment, they stress, is exposing the narcissism and shamelessness of the modern Republican Party.

Wittes and Jurecic, in addition to their work with The Atlantic, are key figures at the Lawfare Blog: Wittes is editor in chief, while Jurecic is managing editor. Both have covered Trump’s legal woes extensively. And the wealth of testimony offered during this month’s impeachment hearings, they assert, makes a strong case for impeaching the president and removing him from office.

“The public proceedings largely dramatized the story that we already knew about Trump’s coercive efforts with respect to Ukraine,” Wittes and Jurecic explain. “Witness after witness made it obvious: the president was attempting to force Ukraine to announce sham investigations that would benefit Trump politically, in exchange for a White House visit and hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid. There were a lot of witnesses. They were credible. And they were, individually and collectively, damning.”

View the complete November 26 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.