Mueller’s ‘Scarlet Letter’ Impeachment Road Map
by John C. Wohlstetter
April 24, 2019, 12:05 AM
Nathaniel Hawthorne, call your office. Hester Prynne, your fictional protagonist, had a scarlet letter “A†imprinted on her dress, to wear in public and thus advertise to the end of her life her adulterous relationship. Hester was ostracized, a punishment visited on Donald Trump by various public- and private-life segments of the Never Trump coalition: academics, Hollywood and above all, left-wing mainstream press. Hester, doing penance to the end of her life, stuck to her knitting; Trump, for the remainder of his first term, and perhaps, for a full second term, plans to stick to his — being president.
Not if the Democrats have anything to say about it. And they do. With the “Russia collusion†narrative so effectively torched by the first volume of the Mueller Report — even Adam Schiff is tossing it (however belatedly) — the focus shifts to the second volume of the report. Therein its authors examine what constitutes in law an “obstruction of justice.†It was this area that doomed the presidency of Richard Nixon, 45 years ago. Nixon resigned when told by GOP congressional leaders that he had three votes in the House, and upon impeachment there he would be convicted in a Senate trial. Special counsel Leon Jaworski named “RN†as an “unindicted co-conspirator†in the “Watergate†scandal cover-up.
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