>>8016539 (pb)

This is a False and Misleading click bait headline Johnathan Turleys report:

Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges

There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed. The White House team were effective advocates for their clients and we do not disbar lawyers for making arguments or defending individuals that we do not like. I was surprised and disappointed therefore that my fellow witness from the Trump impeachment hearing, North Carolina Law Professor and CNN Legal Analyst Michael Gerhardt joined this dubious argument on CNN yesterday. The call for ethics charges seems dangerously close to the view of Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump defenders are barred from his MSNBC program because they are all “liars.” Obviously, Gerhardt and I have substantial disagreements. Gerhardt supported the articles of impeachment based on bribery and other crimes. I opposed those four articles, which were ultimately rejected by the Committee. The Committee went forward with the two articles that I said would be legitimate but remained unproven. We later disagreed when Gerhardt declared that this impeachment was the first time that the White House closely coordinated with his own party on the handling of the impeachment trial. Those however were academic differences over the history and interpretation of prior presidential impeachment cases.

This however is different. Proponents of the impeachment seem to be lashing out at counsel and suggesting that they were acting unethically in zealously advancing the President’s defenses. After disagreeing with me that the impeachment was not “rushed” prematurely, Gerhardt asked to make a different point about the defense team. He declared: “I think what we are seeing as well is that the lawyers who presented his case in the Senate basically misled or lied to the Senate. And so at one point — at some point we are going to see ethics charges brought against these lawyers for making false statements, which we now all know were false.”

CNN host Poppy Harlow followed up by asking Gerhardt “Do you think the D.C. Bar . . . is actually going to hold Pat Cipollone, for example, to account for this?” Gerhardt doubles down against everyone on the legal team: “I think what we are seeing as well is that the lawyers who presented his case in the Senate basically misled or lied to the Senate. And so at one point — at some point we are going to see ethics charges brought against these lawyers for making false statements, which we now all know were false.” Moreover, bar associations are equally concerned about the ethics of impugning the conduct of other lawyers without sufficient support. Various ethics opinions warn that threatening or declaring bar violations can be unethical, particularly when (if true) you are under an obligation to actually report such conduct. If there is a lack of a good faith basis or support, it can violate professional standards.

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https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1224514654476439553

Ilhan Omar: My First Impression of America Was Disappointment

Speaking at a campaign rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ilhan Omar told a story of her first impressions upon arriving in America, expressing her disappointment at what she saw. Omar was making a point of trashing America for homelessness, a cause dear to her heart as she pushes her ‘Homes For All Act,’ legislation allegedly designed to make housing ‘a human right.’ “When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York,” the Minnesota Democrat recalled. “And I remember turning to my father and saying, ‘This doesn’t look like the America you promised.'” Omar claims ‘orientation tapes’ shown to refugees featured homes with white picket fences and happy children heading off to school. “That is the America we all know we deserve but our reality is full of homeless people,” she continued. “Our reality is full of families who have moms and dads who are going without dinner or lunch or breakfast just so that they can have enough for their children.”

The irony here is that Omar’s comments about homelessness and cities where schools and infrastructure are decaying are typically run by Democrat politicians. Not always, but very, very typically. Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New York City to name a few. “Our reality is full of kids who are showing up to schools that are full of mold and leaking rooftops,” she complained. “Our reality has children who are facing drills every single day to learn about how they can escape being shot in our schools.” Perhaps chillingly, in relaying her story, she mentions something her father said to her after she expressed disappointment in America. “My father looked at me and said, ‘Hush, child, we are going to get to our America,'” Omar said.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/ilhan-omar-my-first-impression-of-america-was-disappointment/

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1223434800561827840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1155062878375940096?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

>>8017235

Perfect, Thank you for simplifying it.