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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Once ATT acquires this crap network, dump ATT
We are a whole lot closer to April, 1861, than to February, 1974. If the totalitarian Left really wants to find out how normal Americans respond to a coup attempting to remove the duly elected President of the United States, I hope they understand what a gigantic risk they are taking. There are tens of millions of us who took an Oath with no expiration date, and many of us still mean what we promised.
“Impeach Trump” with no charges is sedition, a call for treason. As for me, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Millions of foreign enemies are being admitted as illegals, while millions more of our domestic enemies are engaged in treason. If (when?) it comes down to a shooting war, I will follow my Oath.
amongst leftists maybe.
these polls always seem to be based on the same 1000 people (if even that many) in Greenwich village and now antifa/SPLC clowns and radicals.
CNN - liars, cheats, frauds and NOT JOURNALISTS
BOYCOTT THESE PROPAGANDISTS
B.S.!
And I personally believe that democrats and RINO’s should be put in front of firing squads....But us conservatives are just too nice for that to happen....
Now that is SAD!!!
Take out Trump in any way other than voting down a 2nd term and Tal stops playing nice. In fact, Tal stops playing around, period. And Tal won’t care who doesn’t like that...
Hurting lefty feelings isn’t a impeachable offense. They have not shown one shrewd of evidence to suggest he has committed a crime.
Please...PLEASE try it!
He hasn’t committed any crime, and as far as Obama goes, there’s nothing to compare to what Obama openly did that placed our nation in danger.
"Say when"
Uh...maybe because he hasn't committed any high crimes and misdemeanors??? Even "top" Demoncrats aren't stupid.
This is childish nonsense. Nowhere is it written that anyone can ‘impeach’ a president because you don’t favor his policies.
For having TWO scoops of ice cream!
ha. you beat me to posting that.
I just took a poll. Everyone polled agreed that anyone employed at cnn is a cuck.
He smells like the people in Walmart. A capital offense according to FBI agents.
“If the Dims want a Civil War, just try it. Bring it, bastards. We aren’t taking any of your totalitarian s***”
Yeah, I’m in the market for an ~8 lb. including optic AR-10 pattern rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor. I think that’s about the optimum weapon for a lot of game as well as two legged snakes.
Sorry, he doesn’t get impeached and removed from office just because a bunch of leftists in an opinion poll are still seething about the 2016 election. It doesn’t work that way, nor should it.
I was around in ‘74. CNN lies lie a rug.
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