Trump's lawyers asserted yesterday that the president could conduct *any* quid pro quo with a foreign country to get himself reelected.
"The only reason you make that argument is because you know your client is guilty and dead to rights. That is an argument made of desperation."
"The only reason you make that argument is because you know your client is guilty and dead to rights. That is an argument made of desperation."
It takes a lot for a president's assertion of absolute power to be worse than Nixon's, but that is where we are, with defenses on the Senate floor that amount to "the normalization of lawlessness"—as long as the president is the one doing it.
"They compounded the dangerous argument they made that no quid pro quo is too much, and they compounded it by saying if what you want is targeting your rival, it's even more legitimate. And that way, madness lies."
