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that it’s “dangerous to try to psychoanalyze a president, to try to get into the intricacies of the human mind," because any legitimate public interest concern, along with a corrupt one, is OK with righteous motivations. At least Dershowitz thinks an exchange for money is bad.
But Dershowitz also made an additional argument, which is that if nothing was ever exchanged for Ukraine aid — in other words, if a deal was offered but never completed — that also can’t be an impeachable offense. If senators accept these arguments, they are saying that a president shouldn’t be impeached if there is any legitimate claim, no matter how unsupported by the facts or evidence of self-interest, that he was acting in furtherance of American interests . Since our fictitious president in my opening hypothetical isn’t taking money from Russia and believes what she is doing will be good for American interests, her actions are probably OK.
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