Can the Senate Try Private Citizen Trump?
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Now that the House has impeached President Trump for a second time, can the Senate pursue holding a trial in an attempt to disqualify Trump from running in the future?
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| 0:00.0 | The Senate is planning to put Mr. Donald Trump, ex-President Donald Trump, on trial |
| 0:08.4 | after he leaves office. |
| 0:11.4 | Can they do that under the Constitution? |
| 0:15.0 | Stay tuned for The Dersh Show's constitutional seminar on that noon |
| 0:25.0 | on January 20th at noon President Trump becomes ex-president and a private citizen. |
| 0:32.0 | Yet the Senate of the United States president and a private citizen. |
| 0:33.0 | Yet the Senate of the United States may place a private citizen, |
| 0:37.4 | Mr. Donald Trump, on trial under provisions of impeachment, articles of impeachment, that were issued by the House of |
| 0:46.0 | Representatives while he still served as president. Is that constitutional? Can an ex-president be tried in the Senate on articles of |
| 0:56.5 | impeachment that were issued and voted on by the House of |
| 0:59.7 | Representatives while he was still serving as president? The answer to that question is clearly no, |
| 1:06.0 | under the text of the Constitution, under the policy of the Constitution, and under the intent of the framers. So today we're going to do a |
| 1:15.7 | seminar on the constitutional issue of whether a former president or any private citizen can be tried by the Senate for impeachable offenses, |
| 1:27.7 | even if there were impeachable offenses, this president has never been charged |
| 1:31.0 | with impeachable offenses. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, the Congress broke the record. |
| 1:34.1 | They twice impeached the same president. |
| 1:36.3 | But the record they really broke is they twice impeached the same president |
| 1:40.0 | both times on non-impeachable grounds under the Constitution. |
| 1:43.6 | But put that aside for a moment. |
| 1:45.2 | Let's assume that they had come up with the most impeachable crimes. |
| 1:48.8 | Let's assume they had come up with treason, |
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