| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Rush from judgment |
| Ramesh Ponnuru
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| 发表日期 | 2019-10-10
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Tom Bossert, a former homeland-security adviser to President Trump who now analyzes the news for ABC, went on the network’s show The Week a few days after Nancy Pelosi announced that the House was going to consider impeachment.
Bossert made a number of points in defense of his old boss. Whether Trump had abused his power by making aid to Ukraine contingent on its government’s investigating Joe Biden, he said, had been “far from proven.” The president had ultimately provided both money and missiles to Ukraine after holding them up.
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Bossert also said, however, that he was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s hiring of Rudy Giuliani, he said, had made impeachment more likely. He said that Giuliani and others were feeding Trump a “debunked conspiracy theory” in which Ukraine was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s server in 2016. “It sticks in his mind when he hears it over and over again,” even though “it has no validity.” Bossert’s specific criticisms of Trump and his advisers occasioned some comment, and he felt it necessary to clarify that he opposes impeachment. What did not draw much attention were some of the implications of Bossert’s remarks. The former aide was saying that the president is incapable of recognizing nonsense when it is put in front of him, presumably even after people like Bossert have explained why it’s nonsense. It is difficult to imagine the former aide of any other president saying such a thing, let alone while apparently intending no insult. It is impossible to imagine a former aide’s saying such a thing and having it be ignored. |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Executive Branch
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| 标签 | impeachment
; Trump
; Ukraine
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/rush-from-judgment/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266373
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Ramesh Ponnuru. Rush from judgment. 2019.
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