Late Night Dissects Alan Dershowitz’s Unimpeachable Logic

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Unimpeachable Logic

During the impeachment trial, a lawyer for President Trump, Alan Dershowitz, has argued that Trump was acting in the public interest in regard to his Ukraine pressure campaign, telling senators, “If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” Seth Meyers, among other late-night hosts, took a closer look at Dershowitz’s reasoning, eventually arriving at the conclusion that it was “absolutely insane.”