Odds of Impeachment
More than a few dems have brought up impeachment for Trump's role in inciting today's wild action at the Capital building. Do you think we'll see escalation by Dems or will things "calm down" over the next few days? Thoughts/comments/odds welcome.
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So Mike Pence can be the president for 2 weeks?
Would they even bother?
It’s about the principle. Without serious repercussions, I do not think the president, or his enablers, will have learned anything beyond the fact that they can get away with it.
Principle or not, I don't like the idea of Congress wasting any more of my tax dollars pursuing useless objectives.
Who has brought this up?? SJW on Instagram?? No this won’t happen, dems are smarter than that. If you thought today was bad, imagine what the Trump gang would do if they impeached him
Do you not have NYT/BBG/WSJ/FT/etc. or are those too "elitist" for you?
They're not going to impeach him. There's two weeks left in his term. They know it would be futile and a waste of money.
Has nothing to do with elitist, but to pretend as if the publications you mentioned are completed biased is quite off-base.
Ah, the old Mafia defense! "Give me the protection money, and do it with a smile and thank you, or else."
Just another sign that the GOP is little more than a criminal gang out to bilk the American public.
This thread is stupid; you should delete it and be ashamed of yourself
You’re really displaying your ignorance here. Though you seem like a trumpkin so maybe that’s the vibe you’re going for?
Imagine a grown adult who uses the word "Trumpkin"...
He's not getting impeached damn it; that's why this is a stupid thread. Delete it now
A sitting POTUS encouraged people to storm the Capitol and you do not think impeachment should be discussed?
Articles of Impeachment are already being drafted. We can debate whether it’s likely (which is the point of the thread), and frankly I don’t think it will happen, but you can’t say it’s dumb to talk about when it’s in process
There’s a rumor on bbg that repubs in the house are considering it as well.
They don’t have to impeach him to get him out. They can also invoke the 25th Amendment:
”It allows the vice president, together with a "majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide", to declare the president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office" in a written declaration.”
Seems like this is somewhat of a possibility. Really hope it happens, would love to see his fat ass removed from office then sent straight to prison, but that won't happen
Impeach and convict or the 25th amendment. The man needs to leave office
I fuckin hate trump, yes hate him. But... impeachment is unlikely. I doubt his cabinet exercises the 25th amendment. He’ll still be in cuffs though in less than a year. And most likely 3 of his 40+ “kids”.
I think Trump made a large misstep yesterday. People who he was close to around the White House seemed to take an informal step away from him during this period. If his actions had been worse or if they get worse, people may take a formal step against him, but I think that is unlikely as he is out of office soon.
However, this isn't without effects. I think he previously had a decent chance running in 2024 as of last week, but now he has turned his own people against him and should have dropped the language about 'stealing the vote' as that was out of line and unprofessional.
He really shot himself in the foot yesterday for reelection strategy.
There was a topic here discussing what Trump could do in his last days in office. Now we have seen an example of how bad it could get. The concept of a sitting POTUS encouraging people to storm the Capitol is mind boggling.
What "escalation"? Trump called on his supporters to storm the Capitol to end the concept of democracy in America. There is no "escalation" after that - it's sedition, plain and simple, and anything short of someone murdering him on the street is called for. Trump should be arrested and should spend the rest of his life in a cell, along with most of the rest of the national GOP for aiding and abetting him.
>claims to be fighting for concept of democracy
>wants entire opposing political party arrested
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