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Группа авторов. The Case for Impeachment
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Praise for The Case for Impeachment:
Author’s Note
Introduction
THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
ABUSE OF POWER
CHAPTER 1. High Crimes and Misdemeanors
IMPEACHMENT 101
AMERICA’S FOUNDERS STRUGGLE WITH IMPEACHMENT
POLITICS WITHOUT CRIME
THE MOST ACCIDENTAL OF PRESIDENTS
THE WORST FATE THAT COULD BEFALL HIM
JOHNSON STANDS HIS GROUND
IMPEACHMENT’S BIG ISSUES
A WARNING FOR TRUMP
CHAPTER 2. The Resignation of Richard Nixon: A Warning to Donald Trump
WATERGATE: A CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY
THE COVER-UP EXPOSED
THE ‘UNWRITTEN’ ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT: TREASON AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
THE ROAD TO IMPEACHMENT
IS THE LONG NIGHTMARE OVER?
CHAPTER 3. Flouting the Law
A SERIAL LAWBREAKER
VIOLATION OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT
THE FRAUDULENT CHARITY
CUBA AND CASINOS
TRUMP’S FRAUDULENT UNIVERSITY
EXPLOITATION OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS
IMPEACHMENT—BREAKING THE LAW
CHAPTER 4. Conflicts of Interest
THE BUSINESS OF THE PRESIDENCY IS BUSINESS
THE PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN “EMOLUMENTS”
GUTTING THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE
DANGEROUS DEBTS
THE LAW SAYS NO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AT HOME
TRUMP REFUSES TO DIVEST
CHAPTER 5. Lies, Lies, and More Lies
A HISTORY OF LIES
THE ART OF DECEPTION
TRUMP TOWERS BECOME VACANT LOTS
THE TRUMP INSTITUTE AND THE INDIAN CASINO LAWSUIT
LYING HIS WAY TO THE PRESIDENCY
WINNING DOESN’T STOP THE LIES
TRUMP’S “1984” WHITE HOUSE
FALLING INTO CLINTON’S IMPEACHMENT TRAP
OTHER PATHS TO IMPEACHMENT, PAVED IN LIES
CHAPTER 6. Trump’s War on Women
AN ADDICTION TO SEX
FINDING THE “NO-MAINTENANCE” WIFE
THE WOMAN PROBLEM EXPLODES
A DOZEN CHARGES, A DOZEN DENIALS
GLORIA ALLRED’S IMPEACHMENT TRAP
CHAPTER 7. A Crime Against Humanity
HUMAN SURVIVAL IS AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
DENIER IN CHIEF
THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT HUMANS ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE
TRUMP’S POLICIES AND APPOINTMENTS POSE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY
AN UNLIKELY IMPEACHMENT HAS BECOME MORE LIKELY
CHAPTER 8. The Russian Connections
IS DONALD TRUMP A TRAITOR?
AN INVITATION TO INTERFERE
BUSINESSMAN TRUMP’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS
TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIANS
MANIPULATING THE ELECTION
CHARGES OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION AND BLACKMAIL
NEW EVIDENCE PILES UP
THE MICHAEL FLYNN SCANDAL AND THE ONGOING WAR ON THE PRESS
CHAPTER 9. Abuse of Power
NIXON REDUX?
DIMMING THE TORCH OF LIBERTY
A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION
REJECTING TRUMP’S CLAIM OF ABSOLUTE PRESIDENTIAL POWER
TRUMP STIFLES DISSENT
A VIOLATION OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS
ATTACKS ON THE PRESS
GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT
CHAPTER 10. The Unrestrained Trump
TRUMP DOESN’T CHANGE
THE WRONG TEMPERAMENT FOR A PRESIDENT
OF UNSOUND MIND
CHAPTER 11. Memo: The Way Out
1. DIVEST
2. SUPPORT A CARBON FEE AND THE PARIS ACCORDS
3. ADD A SHRINK TO THE WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIANS
4. USE A FACT-CHECKER
5. TREAT WOMEN WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT
6. CURB THE MUSSOLINI ACT
7. STEVE BANNON, YOU’RE FIRED
8. PROTECT YOUR LEGACY
CONCLUSION. The Peaceful Remedy of Impeachment
Notes
AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CONCLUSION
Acknowledgments
About the Author
ALSO BY ALLAN J. LICHTMAN
About the Publisher
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‘[Lichtman’s] book is a pretty substantial case for why Donald Trump should not have been president at all … A good backdrop for conversations that will likely remain a part of [the] national dialogue for some time’ New York Journal of Books
‘The US system takes a long time to gather speed. Once it does, it can be hard to stop’
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Some scholars and journalists have asserted that President Trump could not be charged with treason even if he colluded with the Russians, or charged with misprision of treason if he failed to report collusion, saying that treason can be charged “only during a state of war.” Yet the American intelligence community has established that Russia did engage in acts of war against America during the 2016 presidential campaign. This was a modern form of warfare, carried out not with bullets and bombs, but via a cyberattack on the foundations of American democracy. According to the Gerasimov Doctrine, a 2013 paper written by General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, “the very ‘rules of war’ have changed. The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness.”18
If Trump did, in fact, collude with the Russians, he likely violated other federal criminal laws in addition to treason. These include, but may not be limited to, the Logan Act, which forbids private persons from negotiating with a foreign power; a federal election law that bans campaigns from knowingly soliciting or accepting anything of value from foreign nationals; and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which prohibits any aiding or abetting of illegal computer hacking.
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