CNN’s Lockhart: Dershowitz’s ‘Un-American’ Argument Is What Hitler Used to Justify Genocide

Curtis Houck | January 29, 2020
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A week after being roasted for tweeting a fake conversation between Republican senators, CNN political commentator and former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart claimed Wednesday night during the Senate trial’s dinner break that an argument used by Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz was “un-American” and akin to those used by “authoritarian people” to justify “genocide.”

OutFront host Erin Burnett asked Lockhart what he made of Dershowitz’s claim that a presidential action in the “national interest...cannot be a quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”

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