A law professor called by Republicans as a witness in this week’s impeachment proceedings said he’s received threats over his testimony.
Jonathan Turley said the nasty messages began rolling in before he could even finish telling the House Judiciary Committee that impeaching President Trump was a bad idea on Wednesday.
“My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee,” Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, tweeted on Thursday. “Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from GW.”
In his testimony, the legal expert expressed concerns that lawmakers were “lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and abundance of anger.”
“Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad? Will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration?” Turley said. “This is not how you impeach an American president.”
Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower whose complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered the impeachment inquiry, responded to Turley’s tweet.
“Seriously. I’d take demands to be fired over death threats any day,” Zaid replied.
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