Throughout the week, the House Intelligence Committee has heard from witnesses who’ve testified as part of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, all of whom have effectively provided information that the president committed an impeachable offense.  Unlike her brothers, Ivanka Trump did not weigh in on the proceedings until Thursday night, after lawmakers heard wildly damning testimony re: Trump from David Holmes and Fiona Hill.  And here’s what the first daughter came up with:

Obviously, the fact that this is her big contribution to the conversation is embarrassing in and of itself, but it’s not the only thing Princess Purses should feel bad about if she, like the rest of her family, hadn’t been born without the ability to feel shame.  Per the Week:

…this is not something Tocqueville, that astute French observer over American democracy, ever wrote.  In fact, the quote comes from a 1889 book, American Constitutional Law, Volume 1, by a judge named John Innes Clark Hare.  And he was actually describing the necessity of impeachment, even as he argued it had been abused on President Andrew Johnson. 

Hare wrote that since the framers of the Constitution decided that, unlike under English law, the executive would be independent of the legislature, there must be “means of removing or punishing an incapable or corrupt president,” so they created a system wherein the president “might be brought to trial, and if need be, deposed.”  There is an unavoidable risk of partisan abuse, he added, but: “It was necessary to choose between leaving the executive wholly irresponsible during his term of office, and subjecting his conduct to the revision of a tribunal that might not be impartial; and the latter alternative was justly though preferable.” 

In other words impeachment is a good thing.  This, of course, is not the first time Ivanka has botched a quote about impeachment in a sad attempt to excuse her father’s gross abuse of power.  Perhaps the third time will be a charm! 

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