7 Mar 2017 2:35 pm
Report: Trump's assertion of Obama wiretapping may increase impeachment odds.
President Trump's Saturday tweetstorm regarding Obama, wiretapping and the next Watergate could bring serious consequences.
Noah Feldman of Bloomberg has made a case for how impeachment could be among them.
He notes that Trump's apparently unfounded assertions may not fall under the free speech protection granted by the First Amendment.
Further, says Feldman, "An allegation of potentially criminal misconduct made without evidence is itself a form of serious misconduct by the government official who makes it."
He continues, "How is such misconduct by an official to be addressed?...
The answer is that the constitutional remedy for presidential misconduct is impeachment."
Feldman further notes, "If the alleged action would be impeachable if true, so must be the allegation if false.
Anything else would give the president the power to distort democracy by calling his opponents criminals without ever having to prove it."
Trump's tweets regarding the wiretapping are notably lacking in the proof category.
