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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:49 AM Oct 2019

Impeach Trump, Repeatedly

A president should not be able to stonewall and run out the clock.

When the Democratic leadership was finally forced to formally back an impeachment inquiry, they faced a choice: focus broadly on all of Donald Trump’s corruption and unfitness, which could drag on for a long time, or focus narrowly on the new revelations about Trump and Ukraine and do so quickly. They chose the latter.

I happen to agree with that strategy, if one assumes that you only have one shot at this. But, I also propose another scenario: Do both. Draw up articles of impeachment on the narrow case of Ukraine, but don’t close the impeachment inquiry. Keep it open and ready to draw up more articles as new corruption is uncovered. Impeach Trump repeatedly if necessary.

There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents a president from being impeached more than once.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/opinion/trump-impeachment.html

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Impeach Trump, Repeatedly (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2019 OP
Amen!... N_E_1 for Tennis Oct 2019 #1
Yep empedocles Oct 2019 #2
K&R!!! 2naSalit Oct 2019 #3
Let us never forget. ChazInAz Oct 2019 #4
I agree with this completely. We need to bury this guy KPN Oct 2019 #5

ChazInAz

(2,569 posts)
4. Let us never forget.
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:52 PM
Oct 2019

When the GOP went after Clinton, they cycled through Whitewater, Bimbogate and other dead ends before Ken Starr dredged up rumors of a BJ.
So we have a precedent.
Just keep slapping charges down on the Bench until we get him out or he strokes out.

KPN

(15,646 posts)
5. I agree with this completely. We need to bury this guy
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 02:10 PM
Oct 2019

and give a clear message to future interlopers by doing so. Never let up. Pound him. Make him and his family as well as cohorts wish he had never dreamed of being President.

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