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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So they drum up a phony issue...7/24....then right away they take a poll. Tell me these people at CNN aren’t trying to take down a government. Republicans better get their shit together because they have never seen anything like this and it’s going to get worse. These mid-terms mean everything to the DNC and it’s war.
So they drum up a phony issue...7/24....then right away they take a poll. Tell me these people at CNN aren’t trying to take down a government. Republicans better get their shit together because they have never seen anything like this and it’s going to get worse. These mid-terms mean everything to the DNC and it’s war.
That’s because there isn’t any
Lemmings who think it’s just a popularity contest, and oversampled Dimwitz
If the Dims want a Civil War, just try it. Bring it, bastards. We aren’t taking any of your totalitarian s***
Guess it hasn’t reach the Clinton level yet.
CNN is Fake News.
I bet you most liberals think the definition of impeachment is to remove someone from office just because you don’t like them.
Good luck with that impeachment thing, guys
In the newsrooms. In the rest of America, there is more public support for going all Salem Witch trials on the inhabitants of the media system.
CNN=Fake News.
The ONLY ones that want him impeached are far left commie kooks who voted for Hillary Clinton who STILL haven’t gotten over the fact that she got her ass kicked..get over it LOSERS TRUMP IS GOING NO WHERE
Why yes, 42% of our sample was registered Democrats. Why do you ask?
I am really sick and tired of the damned threats...childish and ridiculous.
Dressing rooms @ Target
Why post anything from CNN? They are a joke.
I wonder if these are the same polls that predicted Hillary winning? If Maxine Waters keeps giving me ‘um peaches, I’ll bake her a pie! She’s making me hungry.
42% of Americans translates to 100% of democrats.
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