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Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“How can a man who cannot responsibly manage a Twitter account hold the power to destroy the planet? How can a man who cannot convey a consistent message about anything convey a consistent message of nuclear deterrence to an unstable actor with nukes? How can a man as impulsive and vindictive as Trump have his finger, and solely his finger, on the proverbial nuclear button?”
— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Does the Law Let Anyone Stop Trump from Starting a Nuclear War?
Tagged: Nuclear Codes, President Trump
“If the president can, with impunity, remove the deputy attorney general, the very notion that law enforcement has a higher function than serving power becomes a lie.”
— Benjamin Wittes, The Principle of Professional Law Enforcement Is Now on the Line
Tagged: President Trump, Trump Administration, Authoritarianism
“Any hope the White House may have had that the Mueller investigation might be fading away vanished this morning. Things are only going to get worse from here.”
— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Robert Mueller’s Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
Tagged: Russia Investigation, Trump Administration, 2016 Election
“This is what it looks like when the White House itself plays in these waters. It’s the stuff of petty strong-man dictatorships for the President to pronounce an individual guilty of a crime without having to proffer any evidence, offer a legal theory, or convince a jury.”
— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Abuse of Power: The White House Slimes James Comey—Again
Tagged: Trump Administration, Trump Presidency
“We are in a political environment in which there are no rules, no norms anymore to violate. There is only power, and the individual judgments of individual senators—facing whatever political pressures they face, calculating political gain however they do it, and consulting their consciences to the extent they have them.”
— Benjamin Wittes, I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him
Tagged: Politics, Kavanaugh Hearings
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