No, Impeaching Trump Will Not Make It Impossible For Future Presidents To Do Their Job

“Danger danger danger” Trump’s lead lawyer, Jay Sekulow histrionically declares as he closes his defense of Trump.

Sekulow contends that Trump’s impeachment is really only about a “policy disagreement”. Which it’s not. But it’s kind of interesting since we hadn’t really heard that argument much before and now all of a sudden it’s front and center. So anyway, Sekulow wraps up like this:

“If partisan impeachment, based on policy agreements — which is what this is — and personal presumptions, or newspaper reports and allegations in an unsourced ‘maybe this is in somebody’s book who’s no longer at the White House’, if that becomes the new norm, future Presidents: Democrats, Republicans, will be paralyzed the moment they are elected.”

Of course, the “unsourced…maybe…book” refers to Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s soon-to-be published memoir, which appears to directly contradict the President’s version of what he did and said. Not clear at all yet whether the Senate will vote to hear Bolton, although he’s said he’ll talk.

Back to Sekulow. A few minutes earlier, he’d said:

“Danger, danger, danger. The…