Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump's impeachment defense team, answered criticisms of an argument he had made on the Senate floor the previous day about impeachable conduct by distancing himself from the remarks
Dershowitz argued on the Senate floor Wednesday that -- hypothetically -- a politician trying to win reelection is acting in the national interest, and therefore a quid pro quo aimed at boosting reelection chances cannot be impeachable.After those comments, he faced considerable scrutiny from critics who said he was essentially arguing that politicians could do anything in service of reelection because they viewed their reelection as being in the national interest.
""What I was doing was responding to an argument by the managers, which said basically that if a president has any motive -- the slightest motive -- that is not in the public interest that serves his electoral interests, that's a corrupt motive, and that can form the quid or the pro in quid pro quo," he said, adding later that his intention was simply to"ensure that no one can ever get in trouble for having as part of the motive their reelectability.
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