yakov_a_jerkov | Некоторые отзывы (Reply)

Процитирую некоторые отзывы на нынешний скандал, с которыми я согласен.

Ezra Klein:

That Trump felt emboldened enough to try to personally collude with a foreign government to shape the 2020 election *after* the Russia investigation is pretty good evidence that he believes there are literally no checks on him at all.

Benjamin Wittes:

To all the people who crowed about how Mueller did not prove “collusion” and therefore claimed that Trump had done nothing wrong: Trump found you useful. You did your part.

Then he went quickly back to working with foreign governments to improperly influence US elections.

Вот это очень точное описание текущей реальности. Orin Kerr:

It's like a version of Man in the High Castle where Nixon responded to Watergate by saying *of course* we broke into DNC headquarters we needed the dirt and everyone was like yay he's a fighter.

Фрум написал еще 23 апреля:

Democratic leadership understandably flinches from impeachment fight.

But Trump gets a vote too, and he will force their hand by ever more radical defiance of congressional oversight.

Crisis is inescapable. Trump has too much to hide to survive normal functions of Congress.

И в очередной раз хочу отдать должное Уоррен. Очень четко об импичменте:

After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trump’s latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections. Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president.

A president is sitting in the Oval Office, right now, who continues to commit crimes. He continues because he knows his Justice Department won't act and believes Congress won’t either. Today’s news confirmed he thinks he’s above the law. If we do nothing, he’ll be right. [...]