No, Newsweek… Hillary Can NOT Still Be The President…

Last week I wrote that Newsweek is hanging on to the ridiculous notion that Hillary Clinton can still be the president… because RUSSIA.

Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence https://t.co/0kMrSXsaNB pic.twitter.com/j6P256oI0J

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 18, 2018

You can catch up on that here.

It’s as convoluted as it is pathetic, really.

If Trump did conspire with Russia, the president “should resign, or, if he doesn’t, he should be impeached,” Lessig wrote in his essay. Vice President Mike Pence would also have to either resign or get impeached, which would make House Speaker Paul Ryan the president of the United States, Lessig wrote at the time.

Given that there is “no mechanism in American law for a new election,” nor “a mechanism for correcting the criminal results of the previous election,” Ryan ought to nominate “the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside, and let her become President,” Lessig went on to say.

On Wednesday, Lessig told Newsweek this scenario was still a possibility.

Lessig’s original article was written a while back, but of course, over a year into Trump’s presidency Newsweek just Can’t. Let. Go. …So they felt the urge to bring this flaming pile of nonsense back up.

Daily Caller decided to run a little Fact Check on this garbage.

Newsweek claimed Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could still become president.

Verdict: False

So, as we all suspected, there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that Hillary could be president. That is, unless she ran again… but the Dems would be even dumber than I think they are if they let that happen…

The article goes on:

Newsweek promoted a hypothetical scenario written by a law professor, but the professor himself considers aspects of the scenario “unimaginable,” as do other legal experts.

Fact Check:

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig wrote a blog post in October describing a scenario in which Clinton could still become president.

If Russian collusion charges prove true, here’s the complicated chain of events that would have to unfold, according to Lessig:

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence step down or get impeached. House Speaker Paul Ryan – being third in the line of succession – becomes president, appoints Clinton as his vice president and then immediately resigns.

And TA DA – Hillary is PRESIDENT!

Only… this is legitimately the most ridiculous scenario I’ve ever heard. Also, why would Paul Ryan appoint HILLARY CLINTON as his VP?!

Lessig says if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, the Republican leaders ought to pave the way for Clinton. “He should nominate the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside,” Lessig writes about Ryan.

Oh. That’s why. Never mind that the “person defeated” is a treasonous felon herself…

Newsweek doesn’t care. They just want PREZ HILL!

It promoted the hypothetical again on Thursday. “Hillary Clinton Could Still Become President If Russia Probe Finds Conspiracy Evidence,” read the misleading headline.

Except this time it didn’t provide quite so strong a disclaimer. Newsweek wrote that Lessig still considers the scenario a “possibility.”

Only… he really doesn’t.

What the article doesn’t say is that Lessig himself considers it a remote possibility. The idea that Ryan would step down is “unimaginable in Washington today” and entirely unprecedented, he writes in his blog post.

Lessig says it’s not really a constitutional matter, but rather a political scenario in which the Republican Party decides to cede power. “We’ve passed the moment when this crime could have been constitutionally corrected,” he writes.

Lessig does not believe there’s currently enough evidence of collusion with Russia to incite the chain reaction he laid out in his blog post. “The ordinary reader of this piece can’t miss that I am mapping a hypothetical that I don’t now believe,” he writes.

Yeeeeahhhh…. only Newsweek apparently isn’t made up of “ordinary readers” – they’re all drooling morons. So they went with it.

As such, he pushed back on Newsweek for giving the impression that he advocates for this hypothetical. “The piece was picked up by Newsweek, and astonishingly (for Newsweek), all my qualifications were stripped away,” Lessig wrote in an update to his October post.

Newsweek did not respond to a request for comment.

RIDIC.

I’m sure a lot more liberal cronies will have read Newsweek’s article without botheting to fact check ANY of it… so somewhere out there, a bunch of Hillaloonies are still dreaming of a Hillary Presidency.

Dream on, kiddos.