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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Exactly. What “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors” has he committed?
1. Impeachment is not decided by popular vote but by constitutional procedure.
2. This is nothing but more CNN Fake News. Other (real) polls show Trump’s approval at all-time highs.
Where? I live in Houston and haven’t heard that.
Decent folks and CCW sez no....
I think they put this out because the snowflakes actually think you can impeach a Potus if you don’t like him.
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake!
Please go for it evil donkey
Please believe this lie that makes you feel so good.
All easily could be charged to Obama, Clinton and so many in DC Swamp. There is not one damn thing POTUS did wrong within the confines of the Constitution.
Collusion (to GET TRUMP!), Never News?
Good luck scum bags.
THEY HOPE
All I found was a claim the sample size was 1000 and all were “adults”. No idea if they were registered or likely voters of if they were even US citizens.
Basically this is another “Hillary can’t lose” poll.
This could be the permanent face of the people of CA!
Very well stated take on emoluments.
The left is doing everything they can to kill Trumps and their businesses:
Trump’s Presidency Is Bad for Business — His Own - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-new...Proxy Highlight
Oct 16, 2017 ... Related: President Trump Resigns
From Businesses, Leaves Sons, CFO in Charge
Trump’s Presidency Is Taking a Toll On His Business - NYMag
www.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/tru...Proxy Highlight
Oct 16, 2017 ... And the five-star Trump Soho in
New York City has suffered a plunge in ...
Over 12,000 tweets are calling for Trump’s assassination. Here’s ...
https://mashable.com/2017/02/02/threatening-p...Proxy Highlight
Feb 2, 2017 ... 12,000 assassination tweets: Trump’s
social media presence is a new challenge ... they handle social media posts threatening to assassinate the sitting president. ... The Real-Life, Tragic Story of Matthew PerryNickiSwift.com.
What Biden said about Trump before president tweeted: ‘Don’t ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost...Proxy Highlight
Mar 22, 2018 ... Biden can’t stop talking about
beating up Trump.
And the fools keep voting for her and she keeps living in her mansion outside the poverty where they are!
You CANNOT make this stuff up!
“”Nowhere in the article does it reference what he would be impeached for.””
There are a number of actions they could cite - he beat Hillary in the election and is now sitting in HER White House; they just plain don’t like him; they don’t like the way he combs his hair; he doesn’t take their guff and you can add on from there. I’m sure they could fill a page of reasons but unfortunately the Constitution rules on that but from what I heard today of the Supreme Court decisions that were handed down, with the mixture of unexpected votes we can’t even depend on them anymore.
Oh look. A CNN poll, by a group I’ve never heard of, with absolutely no internals.
Let me guess:
Sample size: 12.
Margin of Error: +- 160%
Republicans. 0%
Democrats: 100%
CNN Viewers: 100%
I have not been able to figure out on what grounds they want to impeach him.
a less than pleasing personality?
bad hair?
too rich?
or that they are losing power minute by minute and need to get him out of the White House and get someone else in their who will play ball and that they can control?
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