Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses President Trump's acquittal as well as his State of the Union Speech and the response of tearing up his speech by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

The repercussions of President Donald Trump’s impeachment and today’s acquittal by the U.S. Senate will extend from the coming presidential election to the future health of American democracy, according to a panel of top UC Berkeley scholars reacting to this extraordinary moment in American history.

Last June I wrote an article for Hoover’s Defining Ideas titled “Immigrant Remittances Are Private Foreign Aid,” Defining Ideas, June 25, 2019. That led to Fresno-area immigration lawyer Nathan Brown contacting me for an interview. It just came out this week and is titled “David R. Henderson on Remittances.” I love the line underneath: “Immigrants Sending ‘Our’ Money Overseas?” because of course it isn’t ours except to the extent that we are the senders. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had long warned against a partisan impeachment process. The Democratic Party’s seismic shift to the left, in which socialists play a prominent role, helped convince Pelosi to change her tune.