Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump Is Just Six Senate Votes Away From Impeachment
newsweek ^ | Aug 17, 2017 | Elaine C. Kamarck

Posted on 08/17/2017 7:08:02 PM PDT by blueyon

At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: “Mr. President, we don’t have the votes,” at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.

This scenario actually occurred forty-three years ago this summer when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked into the Oval Office and told Republican President Richard Nixon that they didn’t have the votes in the Senate to save his presidency.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; fake; fakenews; fantasy; impeachment; liberalfantasies; lolnewsweak; looneyleft; newsweak; nope; potus; prestrump; rinos; trump; wishfulthinking; yeahright
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 161-171 next last
To: fieldmarshaldj

Except the South and most of us are on the same side - holding the line for OUR traditions, OUR heritage, OUR culture - American culture.

And the democraps are complete communist asswipes now.


81 posted on 08/17/2017 7:42:40 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: FreedomStar3028; rockrr

We went along with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


82 posted on 08/17/2017 7:43:29 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: FreedomStar3028

No, there will be blood in the streets. The liberalstory we need to exact blood from the states and people who ever voted for Trump.


83 posted on 08/17/2017 7:43:45 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

Who is the idiot that wrote this article? The House impeaches and the Senate convicts. Impeachment will never make it through the House right now.


84 posted on 08/17/2017 7:43:45 PM PDT by Feasor13
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alloysteel
And these idiots believe that IMPEACHMENT is the same thing as REMOVAL...which it absolutely is NOT!

There have ONLY been TWO presidents, in this nation's history, who were impeached! Both were damned Dems, one elected president and one was NOT an elected president and NEITHER of them were removed.

President Nixon was NEVER impeached; let alone removed by the Senate. And he may NOT ever have been; we'll never know for sure and certain.

85 posted on 08/17/2017 7:48:10 PM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

More mental masturbation by TDS sufferers.


86 posted on 08/17/2017 7:48:15 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wilderness Conservative
Yes, they are that stupid. Yes, they think they can get away with it.

Then they have not been reading any of the comments all over the internet. That move would be a total disaster.

87 posted on 08/17/2017 7:48:23 PM PDT by Lady Heron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

And a lot of Media darlings, Hollywood scum, Democrats and Republicans, are six Senate seats away from hanging from lamppost.


88 posted on 08/17/2017 7:48:35 PM PDT by heights
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

All this says is that we have some totally compromised republicans for this to be anything but a demented fantasy.


89 posted on 08/17/2017 7:51:34 PM PDT by Lady Heron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

Author says there are 12 Republican Senators who have spoken out strongly against Trump. He says those 12 plus 100% of Democrat Senators leaves conviction only 6 short of the required 2/3.

I think that Republicans speaking out against Trump is a far cry from those 12 actually voting to convict. I would hope that, when push comes to shove, the Republicans would solidify behind Trump. But there sure isn’t any indication of that, especially after the Charlottesville situation (which was way overblown by the leftists and communists to great political benefit).


90 posted on 08/17/2017 7:54:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: virgil
I wonder if the liberals realize that they are lowering the bar for future presidents. I certainly hope that a Democrat will not will but if he or she wins, I hope that it is all out war like with Trump.

Accusations and made up stories of collusion, racism, sexism, corruption, corruption, corruption... this is war folks and I don't forget and lets hope that the RINOs don't either have balls enough to play dirty.

Mark my words, if it does happen, hypocrite Democrats will be whining about how vicious and unfair we are and will want peace.

91 posted on 08/17/2017 7:58:31 PM PDT by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: The Toll

The lives of the senators and their families if this were to happen would not be worth a plug nickel.


92 posted on 08/17/2017 8:01:50 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

Sure sure. Go ahead, start a war.


93 posted on 08/17/2017 8:01:55 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurkinanloomin

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Gardner, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse, Ernst and Shelby are all Democrats in R jerseys.

I think they can find the votes.


Dream on. Voting to impeach Trump is the end of their careers. They know it. And that’s why they hate us.


94 posted on 08/17/2017 8:02:26 PM PDT by lodi90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1
There may be enough Republican Senators who would love to vote Trump out of office...but at the expense of their own careers? So far there are no grounds for impeachment, let alone for conviction. Trump has condemned the violence in Charlottesville but not in the phrases that the New York Times thinks he should have used? That's grounds for overturning an election?

One of the ideas considered at the Constitutional Convention was to have impeachments tried by the Supreme Court. Not sure how that would have worked out in practice...with the current lineup of 4 leftists, 3 conservatives, and two squishy moderates, could Roberts and Kennedy be blackmailed or pressured into voting for conviction? Or could the left just kill or threaten to kill enough justices to get the desired result? Anyway that wasn't the method that made it into the Constitution.

95 posted on 08/17/2017 8:02:33 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

Ah, Newsweak. Several years ago they were sold for 1.00 USD.

And worth every last penny. Still worth it.


96 posted on 08/17/2017 8:03:11 PM PDT by buffaloguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jonno

More mental masturbation by TDS sufferers.


Exactly. Trump is in the WH. All they can do is this stuff.


97 posted on 08/17/2017 8:03:12 PM PDT by lodi90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: rockrr

Even Pat Buchanan said if this were to happen, a number of states would secede.

And he wasn’t talking about liberal f—ktard states like California. He was talking about more conservative states, like Texas, among others.


98 posted on 08/17/2017 8:04:08 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

Fake news from a wet dream instead of reporting the facts.

The $inate does not initiate impeachment procedures the house does.

How the Impeachment Process Works - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/.../how-the-impeachment-process-works-trump-clinton.html?...

May 17, 2017 - First, the House of Representatives votes on one or more articles of impeachment. If at least one gets a majority vote, the president is impeached — which essentially means being indicted. (In both the Nixon and the Clinton cases, the House Judiciary Committee considered the matter first.)


99 posted on 08/17/2017 8:08:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lodi90

The ones at the end of their lives might think they were being heroic.


100 posted on 08/17/2017 8:08:10 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 161-171 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson