IMPEACHMENT: We have never before threatened any president with impeachment primarily for purported wrongdoing before he took office. Had we done so, every president since Eisenhower would have been impeached in his first year. Eisenhower, for example, avoided $400,000 in taxes by finagling a one-time government ruling to declare the huge royalties on his memoir as “capital gains” rather than income. Harry Truman had a long relationship with the criminal syndicate run by Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast. And Barack Obama’s improper campaign contributions (nearly $1.8 million) earned a $375,000 fine. – Victor Davis Hanson (edited by CtH to make it intelligible as an excerpt) Continue reading
