Co-host Joe Scarborough, however, went with another TV reference, saying, “This is not too far from the final scene in every Perry Mason episode you’ve ever seen, where the person on the stand breaks down crying, and says, ‘I did it!’
Zippy stuff, but Trump instead directed his Twitter followers to his pals at Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends where, he said, Alan Dershowitz had just explained “what is going on with respect to the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. political history. Enjoy!”
On F&F, Dershowitz argued that it would be a “constitutional crisis” should Congress charge Trump with obstruction of justice for “exercising his constitutional authority under Article II.”
“You cannot charge a President with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate,” Dershowitz insisted.
Until that tweet, Trump had confined his Monday morning Twitter activity to endorsig Roy Moore: