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Trump's racism is an impeachable offense. The precedent of Andrew Johnson proves it.
NBC News ^ | July 30, 2019 | Peter Irons

Posted on 07/30/2019 10:38:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

He attempted “to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States.” He delivered “with a loud voice, intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and has uttered loud threats and bitter menaces, against Congress [and] the laws of the United States, amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes.”

He has brought the “high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule and disgrace.”

Sound like someone we all know? These charges certainly describe President Donald Trump’s deplorable behavior and its effects on Congress, the presidency, and — most importantly — the divisions he has exploited and widened among the American people, as well as the damage he has caused to America’s standing and role in the world community.

But they aren’t an imaginary list of offenses compiled by Congress to hold Trump accountable for his transgressions; they are actual excerpts from Article 10, the most important of the 11 impeachment articles brought by Congress against an earlier president: Andrew Johnson.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; andrewjackson; andrewjohnson; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; partisanmediashills; peterirons; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lol

At some point a company shouldn’t be considered a news channel about a SHOW of some kind when it becomes SO obvious it is a shrill.

Trump’ll gain 2 more points on this.


21 posted on 07/30/2019 10:54:21 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m beyond surprise. I’m beyond shock. But they do go way beyond my imagination of how low “low” actually can be.


22 posted on 07/30/2019 10:54:32 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

AJ had BEEN a Democrat, prior to the running with Lincoln.


23 posted on 07/30/2019 10:54:36 AM PDT by dangus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We need a new book of "Grimm's Fairy Tails":

Climate Change

Racism

Trump Russia Collusion

Socialism success stories

Finding healthcare in a Single Payer system

24 posted on 07/30/2019 10:54:38 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States.”

The Congress of the United States has brought such upon itself.

25 posted on 07/30/2019 10:55:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PGR88

I’ve noticed the Dems never compare Trump to the biggest racist POTUS of all time and progressive icon Woodrow Wilson. I wonder why that could be?


26 posted on 07/30/2019 10:57:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bizarre, given that it looks like we’re WINNING!!!!


27 posted on 07/30/2019 10:57:37 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the Dems plan is “total chaos”...look for more statements like this, protests, some riots, impeachment and twitter wars...

The narrative will be this is all Trumps fault and aren’t you tired of it? and it will tip 2% of the vote away from Trump..enough to carry the swing states


28 posted on 07/30/2019 10:57:47 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is NOT a racist.


29 posted on 07/30/2019 10:58:35 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These wimpy Dems don’t have the balls.


30 posted on 07/30/2019 11:00:06 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fine...

When KNOWINGLY speaking of the President of the US, it is ‘ok’ to say
impeach the MF
bring a picture of his severed head etc etc

Sitting Congressman/Senators escorting ILLEGAL ALIENS across the US Border.

Am wondering if SS Detail or whoever guards these pols is INTERFERING with the Border Patrol.

Would love to see an agent step up to the next Pol, detain and place under arrest and take his charge and put him/her on the NEVER NEVER list.

I know the pol will walk and get a lot of publicity but WE are making a big show of arresting and jailing USMC members for escorting illegals across the border.

The Marines may be doing it for money BUT the pol is also doing it for money as prospective votes can turn into money.


31 posted on 07/30/2019 11:00:50 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still don’t understand how AOC (Ruerto Rican) and Rashida Tlaib (Palestinean) are considered “Persons of Color?”


32 posted on 07/30/2019 11:00:55 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: janetjanet998

I think the Dems plan is “total chaos”...look for more statements like this, protests, some riots, impeachment and twitter wars...

The narrative will be this is all Trumps fault and aren’t you tired of it? and it will tip 2% of the vote away from Trump..enough to carry the swing states


I agree. That is their plan. Aided and abetted by the media and GOPe. The only question is if it will work. We shall see.


33 posted on 07/30/2019 11:01:27 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

(((YAWN))) What about when he had his socks on the wrong feet?


34 posted on 07/30/2019 11:03:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was a kid they taught us in school that the fact that Johnson was acquitted by the Senate established the point that the things he was impeached for were not sufficient to impeach.


35 posted on 07/30/2019 11:05:08 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s more than just the “climate change” heat that’s getting to the ‘RATS.


36 posted on 07/30/2019 11:05:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade
No he wasn’t Andrew Johnson, along with Abraham Lincoln ran together on the National Union Party Ticket.

You might wanna look that up. Here's some help. And running on a ticket is different than running for a party or affiliation.

37 posted on 07/30/2019 11:06:27 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and STILL they repeat these damndable lies

without offering a single shred of evidence PDJT has done anything wrong

and while he’s done more good for more Americans (and especially more black and Latino Americans) than any recent president

these Commies have adopted the Nazi Big Lie smear tactic

and it STINKS!

I am sick of it!


38 posted on 07/30/2019 11:06:32 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Sarah Barracuda

To the left, it’s racist to be a patriot and honour the heritage and culture of America as well as all the successes that made it the hub of western man


39 posted on 07/30/2019 11:09:39 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: lodi90
It's not from the lack of reportage.

Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/

Newsweek reported it and so did the NYT. as did CNN.

40 posted on 07/30/2019 11:11:18 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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