Posted on 01/11/2021 4:14:08 AM PST by Onthebrink
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday night that one of the motivating factors for some in the new effort to impeach President Trump and remove him from office is to eliminate any chance he has of being elected again.
Last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol Building has quickly become one of the greatest challenges to Trump’s presidency. Democrats and some Republicans blame him for his overheated rhetoric leading up to the unrest that led to five deaths and dozens of arrests.
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They have no authority to impeach, once he is out of office.
I do not think it will happen, but that makes some sense of it.
I, for one, am quite happy to see Pelosi, Schumer, /Biden, and Big Tech having such an irrational focus on hating Trump. It’s his final victory as The Great 45 (and continues the possibility as The Great 47).
This obsession is preventing them from achieving their own Marxist, racist, and retrogressive agenda. Go to it, Dupes! President Trump owns you. (And the word “President” will never appear before the word “/biden” in any of my writing.
Good point.
One can only hope...
Impeachment alone will not prevent Trump from running again; the Senate would have to convict him. And McConnell said there’s no time for that.
How is this constitutional? She can’t add conditions to who is qualified to be president.
[I honestly think it’s just Nancy’s deranged hatred of Trump that is behind this. By 2024 he’ll be almost 80 and unlikely even to want to run, so this is just a purely symbolic bit of theater of Nancy’s part. ]
Any number of lawyers here on Free Republic have said that the Trump administration failed to make its case. The problem is the time limit - just over a month. Trump knew it had no chance, so he spent the least amount of money he could, hiring the equivalent of public defenders to make his case.
As I’ve said elsewhere, Trump set up these election challenges, while hiring the lowest-cost, most incompetent lawyers in the nation, to get set up for another run. If he weren’t running again, he’d have conceded from the git-go. He *knew* there was no way he could prevail, and therefore chose to use this pivotal moment as a fund-raising opportunity, as well as a chance to create a bloody shirt meme he could use in 2024’s campaign. Easier to fund-raise now, when the crime - unprovable in the limited time frame available - was fresh in everyone’s minds. Also what better time to sear the memory of the steal in the psyches of his supporters, when the printer’s ink on the fraudulent ballots might not even have cured? I think it’s a brilliant strategy, health permitting.
In case you’re wondering, Trump has raised hundreds of millions*, while spending a few million on lawyers. That’s a huge 2024 campaign war chest ready to go. And if he runs, his name alone will psych out all potential GOP challengers. Anyone who beats him in the primaries is guaranteed to lose in the general** since, at minimum, 10% of the GOP vote will stay home or vote for the other guy just to stick it to the Judas. And that’s not just for that election, but in *any* future election. Which is why no serious GOP contender will challenge Trump.
* That small-dollar fund-raising prowess is unheard of, for a political candidate who just lost an election. Ask Hillary what happened to her fund-raising ability after she lost in 2016. Millions of people struggling under the weight of pandemic-shutdown and -recession related financial stress shelled out to help Trump get over this hump. GOP pols recognize this, which is why only one House member, Kinzinger, and one Senator, Romney have joined the impeachment drive.
** And not just in the general. Whatever GOP seat he’s currently occupying is toast in the next election, since Trump voters will remember all the bad things he said about Trump during the presidential primaries, and repay him in kind.
Impeachment and a conviction does NOT prevent one from running for office.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FLA) was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for accepting a bribe as a Federal Judge.
As usual Pelosi is deranged and as full of it as the streets of San Francisco.
The other thing that Impeachment/Removal does, is it sends a message to any other outsider, non-career politician type that this is OUR club, stay out, look what happened to him, stay away.
It does not have to, but it can.
Not being able to hold public office is one of the few penalties which can be imposed.
This is all show for her base, and attempt to smear President Trump.
By definition, an Anti-Democracy action.
Trump has already been re-elected
She thinks tge military can allow Biden, an agent of China, to have the military football in any case not to mention Harris
Moot point. Trump is in.
That’s what I thought also, he would have to be convicted of a crime, most likely a federal crime, in order for him to be ineligible in the future.
Why are the Dems so frightened of another run for President by TRUMP? If Biden was “legally elected” they should have no fear.
I believe this is the Deep State’s slap in the face to Americans telling us that we can vote for whomever we want to but THEY will chose the winner.
In 2016, they chose Hillary. already deemed the President by the Deep State, not realizing that Trump would sweep the field before they could print up fake Hilary ballots.
Pelosi drives another nail into the democrat coffin.
The Nazi whore is insane.
Pretty much an admission that Trump really won 2020, and would win again in an honest election.
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