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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 01:46 AM Jul 2019

Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected (Borowitz)

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trumps-lawyers-argue-that-he-cannot-be-impeached-because-he-was-never-actually-elected

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what they believe is a legal masterstroke, lawyers for Donald J. Trump are now claiming that he cannot be impeached because he was never actually elected. In a lengthy memo sent to the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the lawyers pushed back vehemently against any allegation that Trump was legally elected President.

“Because Russian interference made the election of Donald J. Trump wholly illegitimate, any attempt to remove him from an office that he does not legally hold is clearly impossible,” the memo asserted. The memo claimed that the Constitution contains “no provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.”

The memo went on to argue that, if a subpoena is sent to the White House, it will be returned to Mueller and stamped “addressee unknown.” “A person referred to in a subpoena as ‘President’ Donald J. Trump simply does not exist,” the memo claimed.

Minutes after the memo was leaked, the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani appeared on “Fox & Friends” and proudly announced that he was its author. “Sometimes I have to just step back and say, ‘Damn it, Rudy, you’re good,’ ” he said, beaming.
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Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected (Borowitz) (Original Post) Stonepounder Jul 2019 OP
Snort............ Historic NY Jul 2019 #1
Ron Perlman was saying the same thing after Jimmy Carter BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #2
Real reason: Dems need a trip to the Emerald City?? mart48 Jul 2019 #3
Brilliant! Arkansas Granny Jul 2019 #4
I love good satire Gothmog Jul 2019 #5
This must come from The Onion. nt zanana1 Jul 2019 #6
Borowitz... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #7

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
2. Ron Perlman was saying the same thing after Jimmy Carter
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 03:15 AM
Jul 2019

said he was an illegitimate POTUS and therefore he can't be impeached, but he can be indicted and everything he has done can be annulled (including the two SCOTUS seats). I thought the same thing for almost three years.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
7. Borowitz...
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:34 AM
Jul 2019

Funny, but if he wasn't 'properly elected' that should make him indictable since he's not a sitting president.

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