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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:26 PM Jun 2018

Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what they believe is a legal masterstroke, lawyers for Donald J. Trump are now claiming that he cannot be impeached because he was never actually elected.

In a lengthy memo sent to the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the lawyers pushed back vehemently against any allegation that Trump was legally elected President.

“Because Russian interference made the election of Donald J. Trump wholly illegitimate, any attempt to remove him from an office that he does not legally hold is clearly impossible,” the memo asserted.

The memo claimed that the Constitution contains “no provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trumps-lawyers-argue-that-he-cannot-be-impeached-because-he-was-never-actually-elected?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20060418&CNDID=25394153&spMailingID=13632080&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNjg0NzM5S0&spJobID=1420315803&spReportId=MTQyMDMxNTgwMwS2

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Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP

Like this?... Zoonart Jun 2018 #1

Shit, I got that beat: Rejected for a position I never applied for. And I interviewed twice! DRoseDARs Jun 2018 #9

Bastards. Zoonart Jun 2018 #10

Unemployed those 6m summer/fall of '10. Minecraft burst onto the scene and helped me keep sane. nt DRoseDARs Jun 2018 #15

I love good satire Gothmog Jun 2018 #2

It is so sad how long it took me to realize this was satire. Takket Jun 2018 #3

Thought it was The Onion initially. Hilarious. Get Hannity to repeat as if its a fact. BSdetect Jun 2018 #4

Borowitz is on par with The Onion. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2018 #6

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani just read this and thought to himself.... Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2018 #5

:D ...had me going for a few seconds (before I saw borowitz in the link). C Moon Jun 2018 #7

Putin on a new defense. kairos12 Jun 2018 #8

Sadly, that makes all the sense in the world (relatively speaking) world wide wally Jun 2018 #11

i KNEW it was Borowitz!!!!! spanone Jun 2018 #12

He's copying me! ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #13

Closer to the truth than even Horowitz knows. triron Jun 2018 #14

Lol treestar Jun 2018 #16

Zoonart

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1. Like this?...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:28 PM

Jun 2018

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)

9. Shit, I got that beat: Rejected for a position I never applied for. And I interviewed twice!

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 04:08 PM

Jun 2018

Applied for a position, they lost the application and resume (sent via in-house email since my stepdad works for them... they lost an IN-HOUSE EMAIL... FROM A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER), reapplied, interviewed, radio silence for 6 months, contacted me again asking if I was still interested (was told corporate had eliminated the open positions, then brought them back), second interview, radio silence for a few weeks, rejected for a position I didn't apply for with impersonal stock letter that sat in an office about 20 feet from my stepdad's workstation for 2 weeks.

Fucking clown show. Glad I didn't end up there in *any* position. Major US/Int'l company. Famous for really bad business decisions in the late-80s/early-90s that almost ruined them, spent the 90s/00s recovering.