Journalism professor Jason Johnson claimed President Trump could threaten to end voting in blue states if the Senate acquits him.
“Imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, ‘Well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I’ve decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting,'” the MSNBC pundit said Thursday. “This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We’re not talking hypotheticals, anymore.”
Johnson’s claim followed Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz arguing that the president could not be impeached unless he committed an actual crime. “Virtually half of American presidents, from Adams, to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, have been accused of abuse of power, and the framers explicitly rejected those kinds of broad, open-ended criteria,” Dershowitz said about the attempt to impeach Trump.
Johnson is an MSNBC contributor and a staunch critic of Trump. Last week, he argued that the Senate trial had proven “Trump is a cheater.”
