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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Wed Nov 21, 2018, 07:39 PM Nov 2018

Was Founding Father George Mason a time traveler? Sure sounds like he knew Trump.

"Shall any man be above justice? Shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?"

"Shall the man who has practiced corruption, and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment by repeating his guilt?"

"He might betray his trust to foreign powers."

These are just a few of Mason's remarks as he helped write the impeachment powers into the US Constitution.

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