The Senate is voting on whether to allow witnesses at the impeachment trial of President Trump
Schiff claims Trump's legal team believes the President can be as "corrupt as he chooses under our Constitution"Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff rebuked President Trump's legal team, claiming White House counsel believes the President"has a God-given right to abuse his power, and there's nothing you can do about it."
"It's the Dershowitz principle of constitutional lawlessness," Schiff said, taking shots at Trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz."That's the end-all argument for them. You don't need to hear witnesses who will prove the President's misconduct because he has a right to be as corrupt as he chooses under our Constitution. And there's nothing you can do about it.
After those comments, he faced considerable scrutiny from critics who said he was essentially arguing that politicians could do anything in service of reelection because they viewed their reelection as being in the national interest. However, Dershowitz said that's not what he was arguing and he"never said" a president can do anything to get reelected.
"I have never said that a president can do anything if he believes that his election is in the public interest to get reelected," Dershowitz told CNN."That's simply false."
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