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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump'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-electedWASHINGTON (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, youre 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
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)1. Snort............
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)2. Ron Perlman was saying the same thing after Jimmy Carter
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.
mart48
(82 posts)3. Real reason: Dems need a trip to the Emerald City??
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)4. Brilliant!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)5. I love good satire
zanana1
(6,085 posts)6. This must come from The Onion. nt
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)7. Borowitz...
Funny, but if he wasn't 'properly elected' that should make him indictable since he's not a sitting president.