Worse than all the transgressions of his predecessors

"life is A principles-person in private, desperate in his fortune, of dreistem mind, and with considerable Talent equipped for": Alexander Hamilton, the most conservative of the American founding fathers, of the type described a politician, in front of the young Republic, the most in Eight should take.

On Wednesday quoted Jerry Nadler, the democratic Chairman of the judiciary Committee in the house of representatives, Hamilton's warning at the start of the Impeachment hearings before his Committee. Everyone knew who the quote was, President Donald Trump , to whose charge the panel.

Four renowned constitutional lawyer, opened the hearing, three were appointed by the democratic majority as a witness, one of the Republicans. The Republican witness, Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University, criticized the democratic approach as "too fast" and not sufficiently well-founded. Pamela Karlan of Stanford University in California held, however, that, in a democracy, nothing Holy is as fair and unbiased holding of elections. Therefore, the Ukraine affair was a "shock to the heart of what makes this country a Republic".

As Karlan their colleagues were in favour of Noah Feldman of Harvard University and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina, impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. His trespasses in the Ukraine affair were "more severe than any other President before him," said Gerhardt to the Committee.

That Trump will be indicted by the house of representatives, is now out of the question.

Trump would be, therefore, worse than Andrew Johnson, the Congress of 1868 accused because of his Sabotage of African American emancipation in the U.S. South, and his disregard of Parliament. Or, as Richard Nixon had set the intelligence services on Vietnam war opponents, and to be responsible for the break-in into democratic headquarters in the Watergate building.

Worse than Warren Harding and his corrupt Administration, a century ago, the current President would be. And more dangerous than George W. Bush, initiated in 2003, out of flimsy reasons in the Iraq war, the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians fell victim to.

That Trump will be indicted by the house of representatives, is now out of the question. Nancy Pelosi, as speaker of the house of representatives, the highest-ranking Democrat in Washington, and let see this on Wednesday once more, as they asked their members behind closed doors, whether they are "ready".

Republican Front behind Trump

"Ready," the Democrats are good and all, but it is uncertain what will move an Impeachment Trumps in the end. Because so far, the Republican Front holds, not a single Congressman or Senator has made against the President. Still, Pelosi and her leadership an indictment of Trump, apparently not only on the Ukraine want to build affair. There are signs that the results of the investigation of the Russia-special investigator Robert Mueller will also be included.

in Addition, new events, and witnesses may affect the prosecution, as well as the subsequent trial against Donald Trump. Everyday politics is not likely to come up in Washington. And the split in the country will deepen. The behavior of the President threatening the American democracy, said Jerry Nadler after the conclusion of the first hearing before the judiciary Committee on Wednesday evening. Only half of Americans but it is currently convinced.

Podcast: "USA: decision on 2020"

Listen to the latest episode from the Podcast "decision-2020" with the US correspondent Martin Kilian and abroad, chef Christof Münger also on Spotify, or on iTunes.

Created: 05.12.2019, 14:04 PM