GT Progressive News: @VP Mike Pence’s recent piece in the @WSJ , “A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage,” is a total perversion of JFK's legacy and the meaning of courage. As Kennedy's grandson, and a member of the Profiles in Courage Award Committee, I took special interest. THREAD

Sunday, January 19, 2020

@VP Mike Pence’s recent piece in the @WSJ , “A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage,” is a total perversion of JFK's legacy and the meaning of courage. As Kennedy's grandson, and a member of the Profiles in Courage Award Committee, I took special interest. THREAD

.@VP draws upon JFK’s book PROFILES IN COURAGE and the example of Edmund G. Ross, a Republican Senator who broke with his party to oppose the impeachment of President Johnson in 1865.
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) January 18, 2020

.@realDonaldTrump was impeached because he did the exact opposite -- he put his own interests ahead of our country’s national security and, in the process, broke federal law.
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) January 18, 2020

I would argue instead that today, as in 1865, political courage might require a Republican Senator to risk his or her own political future by breaking lockstep from the President and agree to hear from witnesses, review the evidence, and put the national interest above their own.
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) January 18, 2020

I’ll let President Kennedy have the last word: pic.twitter.com/2Exp4jKwMI
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) January 18, 2020

*1868 😇
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) January 18, 2020