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Impeachment Trial of Trump
USA Today | 01/14/21 | Self

Posted on 01/14/2021 9:56:09 AM PST by DownInFlames

Post Presidency Impeachment Trial


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Reported today in USA Today that the Senate that he Impeachment Trial of Donald J Trump will be put off until the new Senate is in session. This would be the first time in history that a non-sitting president could undergo an Impeachment Trial when he is no in office.
1 posted on 01/14/2021 9:56:09 AM PST by DownInFlames
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To: DownInFlames

How is that possible? I thought a private citizen could not be impeached.


2 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:05 AM PST by gawatchman
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To: DownInFlames

Screw these idiots


3 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:20 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: DownInFlames

Is this possible????


4 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:28 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: DownInFlames

It won’t matter when the storm arrives. Actually it already has. Biden won’t be in the WH.


5 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:47 AM PST by bcr100 (Its)
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To: rdl6989

Is this LEGAL?????? NO.


6 posted on 01/14/2021 9:59:09 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gawatchman

Dershowitz says it is unconstitutional. May end up in Supreme Court.


7 posted on 01/14/2021 9:59:25 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: DownInFlames

Meh..... kabuki theater.


8 posted on 01/14/2021 10:00:26 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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“Dershowitz says it is unconstitutional. May end up in Supreme Court.”

Somehow that gives me no confidence...


9 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:13 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: DownInFlames

What next? Will they bring Epstein in to court and prosecute him? Maybe dig up Prince and have him do a concert? These people hurt my noggin......


10 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:15 AM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: DownInFlames

“We will make it legal”
Schumer and Pelosi.


11 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:15 AM PST by Skywise
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They will drop the false statements of election fraud because he will get to show the evidence of all the fraud that the judges wouldn’t look at. Right there in front of everyone watching. It will be for inciting the riot. There is no proof. If they convict him anyways it will be the biggest bunch of crap they have done yet. I wonder if they would fear back lash. Or invite back lash to see if they can grab the guns.


12 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:22 AM PST by glimmerman70
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A private citizen cannot be impeached . . . if we are following the rule of law. That means the democrats can and will impeach and then try President Trump. Trump’s crime? The election was stolen from him.


13 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:25 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: DownInFlames

Having the trial AFTER he leaves office will in fact be challenged in court for its Constitutionality.

Whether he wins or not I do not know, but the trial will have to wait for the Supremes to weigh in first.

My thinking is the 5 conservatives will point out how Unconstitutional it is, as the very idea of impeachment versus criminal courts is to REMOVE an official from office.


14 posted on 01/14/2021 10:01:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: bcr100

“Really Clark?”


15 posted on 01/14/2021 10:02:00 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: gawatchman

Post Presidency will be in four years!


16 posted on 01/14/2021 10:04:59 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: isthisnickcool

“These people hurt my noggin......”

I know .... right. The stupid’s gotta hurt. Makes my IQ drop.


17 posted on 01/14/2021 10:05:01 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: DownInFlames

This would be the first time in history that a non-sitting president could undergo an Impeachment Trial when he is no in office.

This is absurdly bordering on the kafkaesque. If convicted in the Senate, he’s removed from office, but already out of office. Sick.


18 posted on 01/14/2021 10:05:42 AM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: bcr100

Praying for the Storm to arrive followed by tribunals starting with the election fraud.

I want everyone in Congress including staff and everyone in the Supreme Court including clerks to attend mandatory tribunal hearings of the election theft.

Following the election theft tribunals, a series of hearings must address how this media network became a tool of enemy propaganda.

So sick of it.


19 posted on 01/14/2021 10:07:05 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Skywise

“We will make it legal”
Schumer and Pelosi.

If they were actually stupid enough to say that and actually pursue a post-presidential impeachment, then as has been mentioned, Obama could be impeached for Benghazi.


20 posted on 01/14/2021 10:08:10 AM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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