Posted on 08/26/2019 10:14:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential primary challenger William Weld recently offered the most drastic response to the idea of how Trump opponents should respond to his reelection: impeach and attempt to remove him from office, despite the voters’ verdict.
“And I’ve long said that one of two things was going to happen: Either the sober second judgment of the community’s going to kick in, which may be happening in the last month or so. I think the president’s gone a little bit further on the proverbial limb in terms of lashing out all day long. And people will look at that and say, hm, maybe that’s not my dish after all.”
And if not and Trump is re-elected?
“I think Congress should impeach him.”
Salute Weld for his honesty, I suppose; he’s perfectly comfortable overruling the decision of the American voters at the ballot box. Then again, Bill Clinton was polling pretty well when the GOP attempted to impeach and remove him from office in 1998–1999 as well.
But we can only imagine the response of Trump supporters if somehow he won reelection, but then a short time later, a Democratic House impeached him and a combination of Democratic senators and 20 or so GOP senators agreed to remove him from office. Even a failed impeachment after Trump’s reelection would be seen as a bitter effort to further tarnish the reputation of a president that most Democrats believed would never get one term, never mind two.
In addition, Weld said, “I’ve recently read the law memo that Hillary Rodham and I wrote for the Nixon impeachment, and it’s very good. It’s balanced and makes it clear that conduct that’s not consonant with the conception of how the office should operate, including dignity, decency is grounds for removal. It doesn’t have to be a criminal offense.”
It’s interesting how dignity and decency are defined differently in different eras. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson gave a press conference to reporters buck naked.
They are not giving up on the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
Pretend Republican “leader” - bump for later.....
William Weld = Democrat
Same amount of crazy
Somebody realizes the futility of their current direction.
We like reading political articles and even articles by the insane left.
But the time came and went folks.
If they couldn’t oust Trump when he was a DC novice and didn’t yet know who was for or against him, they are NO WAY going to get him now.
Impeachment would be Catastrophic for the dems.
We will get to enjoy more and more insane stories from the leftist politicians and msm as they CANT TAKE the fact that no one’s listening.
Weld is a mangina in need of a good douche.
Which Trump POLICY do you disagree with?
Personality disapproval is NOT a "high crime or misdemeanor"!
All these , , , people screaming impeachment have yet to name one valid charge other than they are butthurt or lost out on some unseemly/illegal financial gain because of Trump’s election.
These people are really so full of maniacal hatred it drives them insane.
Who, Weld, what? Sorry sir, we are not hiring welders at this time. I recommend you reapply at some later date.
This guy is just a bad joke, moving on
Weld won’t even get an invite to the national convention.
Two to one up to a hundred dollars.
I have a PayPal account.
5.56mm
A modern day John Lindsey.
Weld is a complete ass and a no hoper.
It warms my heart to see the Quislings doing the Democrats work for them....
Have another drink, Bill.
Boring Bill Weld
No Go Joe Walsh
Two wimpy spineless types who must have Democrats hanging around with dirt on them I’d imagine.
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