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There's nearly a Nixon '74 level of public support for impeaching Trump
CNN ^ | June 22, 2018 | Byron Wolfe

Posted on 06/22/2018 12:36:40 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

(CNN)There is a truly remarkable number in the most recent CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and out this morning.

In it, 42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. What makes it remarkable is that he's on par with President Richard Nixon, who 43% of Americans said should be impeached and removed from office in a March 1974 Harris poll. That was after the scale of Watergate came to light, but months before the House started to move against Nixon, who would go on to resign in August 1974 rather than be impeached.

Impeachment requires "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," according to the Constitution, which also lists it as the the only thing for which a President can't issue a pardon. Trump has bragged that he certainly has the power to pardon himself but won't need to use it. Nixon got a pardon from Gerald Ford, the man to whom he gave the keys to the White House.

The 43% supporting Nixon's impeachment in that Harris poll, by the way, is much higher than the 29% who supported impeachment for President Bill Clinton in 1998. Or, for that matter, the similar number who wanted Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush impeached. As CNN's Grace Sparks writes, there's basically "a baseline of pro-impeachment sentiment for a modern president" and Trump far eclipses it. So why aren't top Democrats clamoring to impeach Trump? To be sure, there are efforts on the outskirts of the party and in Congress, but they do not have the backing of party big wigs.

Most Democrats in Congress, for the record, have opposed efforts by Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, to bring the issue to the floor of the House.

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To: Rennes Templar

So they drum up a phony issue...7/24....then right away they take a poll. Tell me these people at CNN aren’t trying to take down a government. Republicans better get their shit together because they have never seen anything like this and it’s going to get worse. These mid-terms mean everything to the DNC and it’s war.


21 posted on 06/22/2018 12:41:44 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: Rennes Templar

So they drum up a phony issue...7/24....then right away they take a poll. Tell me these people at CNN aren’t trying to take down a government. Republicans better get their shit together because they have never seen anything like this and it’s going to get worse. These mid-terms mean everything to the DNC and it’s war.


22 posted on 06/22/2018 12:41:44 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: Rennes Templar
doesn't matter.
I'll probably get blown up for the following statement, but here goes
Impeachment is a political process, and high crimes and misdemeanors are whatever the House says it is, so they could impeach him for his red tie being too long.
23 posted on 06/22/2018 12:41:53 PM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Rennes Templar

That’s because there isn’t any

Lemmings who think it’s just a popularity contest, and oversampled Dimwitz

If the Dims want a Civil War, just try it. Bring it, bastards. We aren’t taking any of your totalitarian s***


24 posted on 06/22/2018 12:41:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH . . . BOYCOTT CANADIAN Travel & Products BUY AMERICAN)
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To: Rennes Templar
The issue that just keeps on giving. CNN and fellow travelers just can't keep their big yaps shut, can they?

More power to them. Donald Trump will be elected president for life at this rate.
25 posted on 06/22/2018 12:42:00 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: subterfuge

Guess it hasn’t reach the Clinton level yet.


26 posted on 06/22/2018 12:42:06 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: Rennes Templar
[Nowhere in the article does it reference what he would be impeached for.]

Because Mad Max Maxine say so!!


27 posted on 06/22/2018 12:42:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rennes Templar

CNN is Fake News.


28 posted on 06/22/2018 12:42:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lent

29 posted on 06/22/2018 12:43:10 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Rennes Templar

I bet you most liberals think the definition of impeachment is to remove someone from office just because you don’t like them.


30 posted on 06/22/2018 12:44:04 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Rennes Templar

Good luck with that impeachment thing, guys


31 posted on 06/22/2018 12:44:13 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Rennes Templar
There's nearly a Nixon '74 level of public support for impeaching Trump

In the newsrooms. In the rest of America, there is more public support for going all Salem Witch trials on the inhabitants of the media system.

32 posted on 06/22/2018 12:44:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Rennes Templar

CNN=Fake News.


33 posted on 06/22/2018 12:44:40 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: Rennes Templar

The ONLY ones that want him impeached are far left commie kooks who voted for Hillary Clinton who STILL haven’t gotten over the fact that she got her ass kicked..get over it LOSERS TRUMP IS GOING NO WHERE


34 posted on 06/22/2018 12:45:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Rennes Templar
In it, 42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached, removed from office, beheaded, dismembered and his head placed upon a pike outside the White House. And Barron and Melania should be both chained down and fed to packs of hungry dogs. And Hillary should become President immediately.

Why yes, 42% of our sample was registered Democrats. Why do you ask?

35 posted on 06/22/2018 12:45:58 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Rennes Templar

I am really sick and tired of the damned threats...childish and ridiculous.


36 posted on 06/22/2018 12:46:23 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: madison10

Dressing rooms @ Target


37 posted on 06/22/2018 12:46:35 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH . . . BOYCOTT CANADIAN Travel & Products BUY AMERICAN)
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To: Rennes Templar

Why post anything from CNN? They are a joke.


38 posted on 06/22/2018 12:46:40 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Rennes Templar

I wonder if these are the same polls that predicted Hillary winning? If Maxine Waters keeps giving me ‘um peaches, I’ll bake her a pie! She’s making me hungry.


39 posted on 06/22/2018 12:46:48 PM PDT by beaglebabe
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To: Rennes Templar

42% of Americans translates to 100% of democrats.


40 posted on 06/22/2018 12:46:57 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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