WASHINGTON—“This conduct is not America First, it’s Donald Trump first,” Rep. Jerry Nadler said last Thursday during the prosecution’s presentation in the Senate trial of the U.S. president. “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and, mostly, you’re right — your election is in the public interest,” Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz told senators on Wednesday. This is an attitude — l’état, c’est moi — that many of Trump’s opponents have long attributed to the president. At one time — and at his own insistence — Trump’s defence boiled down to “no quid pro quo,” and his Republican defenders insisted that was the line in the sand. This trial began with many Republican senators openly saying they had already made up their minds to acquit Trump.

Source: thestar January 30, 2020 22:52 UTC