Tim Naftali: The Witnesses Have Created a Pattern that the President Is Responsible for Withholding Aid

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NAFTALI: "An impeachment is about the actions of the President. It's essential to be able to prove the President’s responsibility for the misconduct. All of those witnesses in various ways created a pattern that is evidence of the President’s responsibility for suspending the security aid and for demanding investigations if he was even going to meet with President Zelensky. That’s at the heart of any impeachment inquiry. There is a weak — there is a real ambiguity in our wonderful Constitution. We give the House the role of the impeacher, but no one says anything about what the executive is going to do if the House impeaches the executive, the chief executive. It’s almost assumed that the chief executive will somehow cooperate and give the House what it needs to render judgment."