Posted on 12/30/2016 4:49:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Put this in the category of be careful what you wish for. The instant that Trump won the White House, the chatter about impeaching him has been non-stop. The reasons many legal scholars, ethics experts, and political analysts give boil down to this. He has business dealings with foreign governments, most notably Russia, his family management arrangement still presents business conflicts, his possible violation of the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits presidents from buying influence with federal officials or receiving special treatment, and influence peddling and gift taking from foreign governments. These are all sticky points that Trump hasn’t done much to address.
But even if he doesn’t, the move to impeach is a congressional call, and the chance of a GOP controlled House and Senate making that call is virtually nil at this point. However, Trump’s business entanglements could continue to run afoul of federal law about money, gifts and influence with foreign entities. This could plop Trump on the congressional hot seat. But it’s a seat that would be disastrous. Because with Trump out you get Vice President Mike Pence. Trump is bumptious, obnoxious, and clownish. Pence is the prototypical ultra conservative in the gray flannel suit. He is business like, efficient, and knows how to run a political office. Trump will lean on him hard to do the behind the scenes, in the trenches work with Congress to get his initiatives through.
This will present no problem for Pence. He knows Congress, and the GOP establishment is comfortable with him. But Pence has his own agenda. It’s an agenda that’s been honed over time as an arch conservative Indiana governor and congressperson. Civil liberties, civil rights, and education, and environmental groups know him too....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Hutchinson is another race hustling victim peddler on a smaller scale than Jesse Jackson. The Democrats are a mess. They’re just flailing away hoping for any way to trip up Trump.
How the heck can they impeach Trump?
What idiocy. In order to impeach a president, doesn’t he actually have to do something illegal first? And, if he does do something illegal, then the Congress has to have the political will and backbone to impeach.
Talking about impeachment just because the president is of the other political party is plain stupidity.
Impeach Trump and you will have the most bloodiest war on American Streets you have ever witnessed, it will 10x’s worse than what any war will leave behind!!!
That was kind of my thinking back with Clinton...do we really want a “President” Gore?
It’s the Left’s verbal day-dreaming now that the recount and electoral college shenanigans are over.
Trump was elected, not in spite of his campaign promises, but because of them. Every Republican in congress should keep that in mind when the Democrats inevitably play the impeachment card. If they fail to defend their President, the consequences for them and for the entire country should be unimaginably bad- as in-never ever ever recovering from the shit storm that we will unleash. Get out of our man’s way or be prepared for bloodshed.
Blah, blah, blah...
No hope left for the leftards.
Tee hee.
Wow. Has there ever been anyone who haunts liberal minds like Trump?
If Ryan and the Dummycrats team up to unfairly impeach Trump you will have Civil War II.
It will make the last war look like a picnic.
Impeach DJT, get Pence. Pence takes Cruz VP. I see they’re really not thinking this one through.
” ...business entanglements could continue to run afoul of federal law about money, gifts and influence with foreign entities...”
HMMM... Like the Clinton Foundation?! Puhleeze, b!tches - stop hyperventilating; and say hello to reality!
Impeach?! What in the blazes for?
Compare Trump and Pence with obama and Biden
Day and night..mare
The delusional article above is instrumental in showing that “liberals” in California and NYC actually think that Democrats are in power.
Walk into any Starbucks or Philz and the chatter you hear from the coastal elites all pretends that they are still in charge.
...which is only true in 4 or 5 states...and certainly not true nationally.
They are getting a little ahead of themselves. A President can only be impeached for offenses committed while in office.
Upon taking office, a President is immune to prosecution for crimes committed prior to taking office.
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