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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 08:47 AM Jan 2020

Impeachment trial: Trump win shows anything can happen, even Senate conviction and removal

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/24/trump-impeachment-trial-senate-removal-not-impossible-column/4533929002/

Support for removal rose and Senate Republicans saw an election rushing toward them under a black cloud. That was Nixon, but it could also be Trump.

Scott Dworkin
Opinion contributor

There is a lot of talk about how there's no chance of impeached President Donald Trump getting removed. I’m here to tell you that there is absolutely, without a doubt, a chance this Senate could remove Trump from office. But it all starts with believing it can actually happen.

Many Americans prefer settling before going to trial in a complicated legal matter, and that’s because anything can happen in court. That’s why Trump likes to settle, whether it's the $2 million penalty for his charitable frauds or $25 million for his fake university.

If we don’t realize there is a real chance that he could be removed, we will not have the energy to get there. We all need to know and truly believe that if enough Americans speak out, he will be removed.

People also said impeachment was impossible. Before that, they said we will never get a special prosecutor to investigate Trump’s Russian ties while under full GOP control. We will never win in Alabama, Kentucky or Virginia. We will never win back the House. All things Democrats succeeded at. Today, people talk about the 2016 election results as if 2018 didn’t send a crystal clear signal across the country, one still motivating a massive resistance that is ready to march to the polls in 2020.

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Good read.
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Impeachment trial: Trump win shows anything can happen, even Senate conviction and removal (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
It may be a good read but it's a far out opinion OKNancy Jan 2020 #1
Dworkin, berksdem Jan 2020 #2
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