That would, of course, be then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Indeed, Democrat Pelosi would persist in impeaching Trump not just once — but twice.
Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard Law professor emeritus — a Democrat and non-Trump voter who, out of his support for the Constitution, served as Donald Trump’s lawyer in the then-president’s impeachment — had this warning for Democrats in that day of the Trump impeachments.
Dershowitz’s warning was headlined this way in 2019 at BPR Business & Politics:
Alan Dershowitz: Next Dem president will be impeached, thanks to party’s reckless precedent
The story reported this (bold print for emphasis supplied):
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said the next Democratic president will be impeached, thanks to the dangerous and reckless precedent the Democratic Party is setting with its sham impeachment.
Accordingly, impeaching Trump would set into motion a dangerous slippery slope that will come back to bite the Democrats in the butt the next time a Democrat is elected president.
“They have created open-ended criteria which bear no relationship to the words of the Constitution itself,” Dershowitz told Fox News host Mark Levin. “If President Trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent which will weaponize impeachment.”
“So the next Democrat who gets elected will be impeached because [Republicans will] find an ‘abuse of power.
