“The evidence of his impeachable behavior at this point, in my view, is overwhelming," says the Fox News analyst.
"The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have unearthed enough evidence, in my opinion, to justify about three or four articles of impeachment against the president," Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano tells Reason in a wide-ranging interview.
The allegations are not "enough to convict [the president] of bribery" in a court of law, Napolitano says, "but it's enough to allege it for the purpose of impeachment" since impeachment is "not legal [but] political." The former New Jersey Superior Court judge adds that while he thinks impeachment is "absolutely constitutional," it is also "probably morally unjust." Besides bribery, he lays out four more likely articles that he thinks House Democrats will bring against Trump.
"The second charge will be high crimes and misdemeanors, election law violation," says Napolitano. "The third crime will be obstruction of justice. The fourth will be interference with a witness and the fifth may be lying under oath."
"The evidence of his impeachable behavior at this point, in my view, is overwhelming," he adds.
In two decades at the nation's largest cable network, Napolitano has provided an unapologetically libertarian critique of state power regardless of the party holding control in the nation's capital. In the past several months, he has emerged as one of Trump's harshest critics, claiming back in May that the Mueller Report demonstrated that the president had clearly obstructed justice.
Though he thinks the recent House hearings provide grounds for impeachment, the judge finds it unlikely that the Republican-controlled Senate will vote to remove the president—and that the bigger problem is the way federal government continues to arrogate power to itself.
"No American president in the post–Woodrow Wilson era has stayed within the confines of the Constitution," says Napolitano. "And each president has more authority than his predecessors, for the simple reason that Democratic Congresses give power to Democratic presidents and Republican Congresses give power to Republican presidents. That power stays in the presidency. So Donald Trump actually has more authority than Barack Obama did, who had more authority than George W. Bush did, etc."
Napolitano argues that the federal government stays in power by "bribing" states and individuals with giveaways. The result, he says, is unsustainable debt that will ultimately undermine the economy and with it, social order. "The decline of certain types of cultural gatekeepers that said no [to] certain lifestyles obviously is liberating," notes Napolitano. "But the same technology which lets me put the works of Thomas Aquinas in my pocket also lets the government follow me wherever I go and record whatever conversation I have with Gillespie or whoever I'm talking to, the Constitution be damned."
Poster Comment:
Napolitano/Amash 2020!
#1: jeremiad To: Hondo68 (#0)
jeremiad posted on 2019-11-23 15:15:39 Reply Private Reply
#2: A K A Stone To: Hondo68 (#0)
A K A Stone posted on 2019-11-24 08:03:51 Reply Private Reply
#3: A K A Stone To: Hondo68 (#0)
You are consistent at least. You support another never married faggot who supports Abortion.
No thanks I'll stick with Trump who supports pro life people and likes women.
You must be a closeted faggot to always choose the faggots to vote for. You also always choose abortion murderers. You're a sicko.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-11-24 08:08:13 Reply Private Reply
#4: A K A Stone To: Hondo68 (#0)
Liar ANDREW NAPOLITANO Says Brett Kavanaugh is "pro-Obamacare."
Liar ANDREW NAPOLITANO Says President Abraham Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the Civil War ended.
I could go on but you are in a cult and hopelessly lost forever.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-11-24 08:12:48 Reply Private Reply
#5: IbJensen To: A K A Stone (#4)
IbJensen posted on 2019-11-24 09:31:07 Reply Private Reply
#6: Hank Rearden To: Hondo68 (#0)
Something broke in his head.
Hank Rearden posted on 2019-11-24 10:49:26 Reply Private Reply
#7: misterwhite To: Hondo68 (#0)
I'm guessing that's the tweet Trump sent while Marie Yovanovitch was testifying.
Well, she was already testifying, so it had no effect. AND, she wouldn't have known if Schiff hadn't interrupted her testimony and told her about it.
misterwhite posted on 2019-11-24 11:02:58 Reply Private Reply
#8: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#7)
Nappy is such faggot.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-11-24 11:05:21 Reply Private Reply
#9: misterwhite To: Hondo68 (#0)
So exercising executive privilege is obstruction? Separation of powers is no more?
misterwhite posted on 2019-11-24 11:05:48 Reply Private Reply
#10: misterwhite To: Hondo68 (#0)
Because he wanted to investigate the Bidens? I thought no one was above the law, Mr. Napolitano.
If investigating Presidential candidates violates election law, then certainly Adam Schiff should be prosecuted.
misterwhite posted on 2019-11-24 11:11:21 Reply Private Reply
#11: Stoner To: Hondo68 (#0)
Stoner posted on 2019-11-24 11:18:53 Reply Private Reply
#12: Hondo68 To: A K A Stone (#4)
He ain't any gayer than Mittens!
Why do you want to be ruled over by fagots like Donnell & Mitt?
Hondo68 posted on 2019-11-24 11:41:13 Reply Private Reply
#13: A K A Stone To: Hondo68 (#12)
A K A Stone posted on 2019-11-24 12:56:37 Reply Private Reply
#14: Judas Goat To: A K A Stone, Hondo68 (#13)
I wonder who has the video files documenting the various actual positions that Epstein and his alleged Mossad pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, recorded their various clients in.
via Gfycat
Got K O M P R O M A T?
Judas Goat posted on 2019-11-24 14:17:36 Reply Private Reply
#15: Judas Goat To: misterwhite (#10)
If Fearless Leader wanted that he could've used the resources the Department of Justice has for those sorts of investigations... instead of Rudy Guiliani, Lev, and Igor.
Judas Goat posted on 2019-11-24 14:21:16 Reply Private Reply
#16: misterwhite To: Peromischievous leucopus (#15)
Nah. That's what the Democrats do.
misterwhite posted on 2019-11-25 09:10:40 Reply Private Reply
#17: Judas Goat To: misterwhite (#16)
A Republic is a system of government constituted by the Rule of Law.
In the Republic constituting the United States of America, the rights of the governed are secured by:
A: Kompromat video recorded on Little Saint Jeff's Island
B: Enforcing the Law
C: I don't care
D: Plastic wrapped squirrels
??
Judas Goat posted on 2019-11-25 09:19:37 Reply Private Reply
#18: goldilucky To: Hondo68 (#0)
Enough said!
goldilucky posted on 2019-11-25 11:57:37 Reply Private Reply
#19: Hondo68 To: goldilucky, Traitor Trump, Treason, *Bill of Rights-Constitution* (#18)
But there are plenty more charges to impeach and remove him on.
That ain't all!
Hondo68 posted on 2019-11-25 12:50:17 Reply Private Reply
#20: goldilucky To: Hondo68 (#19)
You meant to say allegations. He has not been convicted yet.
goldilucky posted on 2019-11-25 19:06:20 Reply Private Reply