{"id":25867,"date":"2020-02-07T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25867"},"modified":"2020-02-07T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:02:20","slug":"the-heroic-prosecutors-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/07\/the-heroic-prosecutors-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The heroic prosecutors of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From New Yorker<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: How the House Democrats, in the face of certain defeat, presented the case for impeachment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The magazine hasn’t been that interesting since 2016 when it switched to an all-Trump-hatred-all-the-time format, but this article is. Prosecutors who knew that they had no chance of convicting someone nonetheless pressed on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This feeling of inevitability was shared among those who were most intimately involved with the House\u2019s impeachment efforts. As recently as July … Adam Schiff, the ex-prosecutor who became the de-facto leader of the House\u2019s impeachment inquiry last fall, said that he would \u201cbe delighted\u201d if there was a real prospect of removing the President through impeachment. Unfortunately, he said at the time, \u201cthe only way he\u2019s leaving office, at least at this point, is by being voted out\u2060.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ordinarily, we don’t celebrate prosecutors who go after people whom they know they can’t convict, but when Trump is involved, apparently the standards are different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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