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Trump Just Invited Impeachment Proceedings
June 12, 2019 at 10:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/12/trump-just-invited-impeachment-proceedings/
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George Conway and Neil Katyal: Much ink has been spilled about whether President Trump committed a criminal and impeachable offense by obstructing justice. That question deserves extensive debate, but another critical question the ultimate question, really is not whether he committed a crime but whether he is even fit for office in the first place. And that question the heart of an impeachment inquiry turns upon whether the president abuses his power and demonstrates an unfitness to serve under the defining principles of our Constitution.
On Tuesday, Trump gave us direct evidence of his contempt toward the most foundational precept of our democracy that no person, not even the president, is above the law. He filed a brief in the nations second-most-important court that takes the position that Congress cannot investigate the president, except possibly in impeachment proceedings. Its a spectacularly anti-constitutional brief, and anyone who harbors such attitudes toward our Constitutions architecture is not fit for office. Trumps brief is nothing if not an invitation to commencing impeachment proceedings that, for reasons set out in the Mueller report, should have already commenced.
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applegrove
(118,677 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)and easily win reelection. It is his primary path to victory.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)If we don't at least try to impeach him, he can stake an ever greater claim of "exoneration." If he is impeached but "acquitted" by a partisan Republican Senate, it's not nearly as powerful IMHO. Even worse if some Republicans vote to convict in the Senate and/or vote for AOI in the House. I don't think that he has smooth path to re-election in 2020 regardless, however. The Democratic base is more and more energized to vote against him IMHO.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Come on, DU. We cant be that naive.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)..."we're screwed no matter what" if the electoral process is compromised again, as has become a kind of "thing" over the last two decades.
Trump misAdmin/republic party political hacks have blocked the cyberhacking protections that were supposed to be in place, if I am not mistaken.
I will vote for whoever the Dem nominee is - OF COURSE! - but I do not have full faith in the security/integrity of our elections systems.
Especially now that today, Preznit Anus Mouth, said that he would, again, be happy to benefit from outside interference from foreign gubmints during his 2020 "re-election" campaign.
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)GOP senator who votes for acquittal after all the testimony is openly discussed during the impeachment trials?
The trials are what will ruin this bastard. Televised trials on the actual details of crimes committed by this whore of a president.
anarch
(6,535 posts)the P-word I mean, not "whore". He certainly is a whore, in the wider sense of the word...not to deride sex workers, for whom I have much greater respect than I do for the idiot mob-stooge who is occupying the White House.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)global1
(25,251 posts)in total on Network TV for all Americans to see. I believe I watched the Clinton impeachment on Network TV.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I've been demanding this for months now. At least get those GOP Senators on the congressional record as supporting the criminal Trump administration. Then they can go back to their districts and explain why they support criminal enterprise in the highest office in the land! I think the criminals and those abetting criminals in the GOP controlled Senate are in for a RUDE awakening in 2020. I actually think democrats can take back the Senate - as well as the White House - while still retaining the House of Representatives. The only way that can happen though is if we expose the GOP for the criminals and abettors they are.
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)Right now most people have no idea how corrupts the GOP is. Putting a bunch of them through televised in depth questioning as to what they have really been doing for the last few years will make a big impact on how they are viewed by the people who, right now, have no idea that they have done any wrong.
Funtatlaguy
(10,878 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)It's a twofer.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)As pure evil as he is, he is also being led by the nose....
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)he is evil, there is a difference. What he does has been working for him quite well. Any other person would be done by now with 1/10 the shit trump pulled off. He managed to manipulate the media like no one else every step of the way. He is willing to make a fool of himself to get the media spinning. Media loves it - rich content and record ratings. The media now needs trump like a drug, theyll do anything to help trump win.
live love laugh
(13,118 posts)ecstatic
(32,707 posts)I really hope that's not true and that there are limits (and the limit was passed today). If trump and the rethugs start to truly believe that democrats will never act, we're fucked. Seriously.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)If he goes outside WH now and randomly shoot someone to death - there will be no impeachment either, nor would he lose any supporters including GOP in congress. He got SC and once he replaces RGB with gorsuch 3.0, the power is solidified for decades. What he said today is no more extreme than toddlers in cages. Mueller said you cant indite a sitting president - thats all courts need to know to block investigations cause if you cant indict then any investigation serves only political purpose. Thats legal to you.
Initech
(100,079 posts)Don't let them. Trump is the world's shittiest drug dealer. Don't take the bait!!!
applegrove
(118,677 posts)democrats have now. Kind of implies there is more evidence Trump is hiding in one of his organizations or taxes or one of the things currently under investigation. Steady as she goes democrats. Steady as she goes.
Initech
(100,079 posts)He's trying to bait the dems into telling the principal. Go on, do it. Or I will beat you up after class. Do it.
Don't take the bait.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Dumpster KNOWS the 1,000,000's of skunks in his woodpile!
GET ALL THE DIRTY LAUNDRY OUT ON THE LINE first.
don't take the cheap bait ....
sop
(10,192 posts)It will all go down the memory hole by the end of the year.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)writing his book, Trump would be devastated if he were impeached. Trump is not a strong person he needs constant praise and adoration, that's why he brought his family into the White House.
If Trump were impeached he would have a nervous breakdown.
We all know that Trump constantly lies, so why do some believe him when he says he wants to be impeached?
mahina
(17,663 posts)Every other look manageable, with a backdrop of catastrophic climate change bearing down and a president who has stopped all work to address it.