You can’t indict a sitting president. This has been established now, twice. They can call him an “unindicted co-conspirator,” or whatever, but all they can do is use this to try to impeach him.
The 40-seat advantage in the House means impeachment is likely. Had it just been 4-5 seats, pressure on some of the red-state Ds would be too powerful. But Botoxic will “release” enough of them to maintain the margin to impeach and still let them out of it.
So, the senate. I count about 39 pretty strong Trump votes. I count another 7 who are squishes, who could go either way. There are about 7 I think will vote for removal, including Minion, Burrito, Mel Tillis, MurCowSki, Tom Collins, and perhaps two others.
In other words, McConnell would likely have enough votes for an immediate “dismissal” on no grounds rather than a trial.
The election of Braun, Hawley, Scott, Blackburn, and Cramer are going to prove absolutely KEY to keeping Trump. Honestly, I don’t think Heller or McSally would help us. I would not be sure either would be a full Trump supporter. Rosendale would have and Renacci would have. But we should have more than enough.
We need to re-elect Trump another 4 years so all jaywalking charges expire.
Thank you for your insights.
That’s pretty thin gruel.
That sounds like a president on defense, being hammered from every direction...even his own nominal party.
If Trump stays on defense, he’s finished in 2020, even if the propaganda machine and Republican divisions don’t convict him in the Senate.
He needs to “burn the house down” if this is how it is going to go...declassify everything, declassify and publicize Congress’ sex payout fund, take it all down. Otherwise we go quietly into Marxism, in 2020 if not 2019.
As a practical matter, indicting a president is impractical without bulletproof evidence of a heinous crime. That being said, should a rouge prosecutor file charges, and the lawyer be fired for doing so, you can bet impeachment would go forward for “obstruction of justice.”
They will try, for sure.
They are trying to tank Trump’s numbers even by Christmas, by tanking the market...
There are so many evil people in this country, it makes me sick.
All to protect their moats around their castles. “Let them eat cake!”
Thank you. But I just don’t see how paying off women is a crime or a FEC violation. Wealthy people in high positions pay “shut up” money all the time, just to avoid the controversy.
What about John Edwards?
You are insane. Nobody is going to impeach Trump and the Senate is not going to remove him. Pelosi and Schumer are smarter than they look. Even if they were stupid enough to push for impeachment the GOP Senate is not going to remove a Republican president. It would set off either CW11 or a military takeover and martial law.
This BS is about as credible as your never ending drivel that Mueller was really working with Trump to go after Hillary and the Podestas. Nobody in their right mind ever believed that. Well except you.
More likely than any of your hairbrained scenarios we will see two years of gridlock between the House and Senate.
I think the indictment threat is when Trump leaves office. However, if Trump is re-elected, the statue of limitations will have expired.
That is what I read.
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Like Mr Limbaugh said earlier today, I am waiting for the house personal who benefited from the 14 million slush fund to settle sexual innuendo and harassment charges to face criminal proceedings for illegal campaign contributions, by us, the taxpayers, without our consent.
I find this whole thing terrifying. It’s a coup, conducted in public, given the appearance of legitimacy with a House majority, yet it’s a coup and we the people are apparently helpless to stop it.
“You can’t indict a sitting president.”
I think that’s a legal gray area. President Impy would certainly fire any Federal prosecutor that tired to indict him, in fact President Impy wouldn’t have let it get this far, there would have been no investigation or special counsel, damn the consequences, would they have been worse than this?
Anyway, RE: Impeachment, if there are no prospect for removal why would any GOP Senator risk their future by voting against Trump? You think the 2 from NC would?
I presume for a trial that a majority would be enough to dictate procedure so 51 would be needed to move for an immediate acquittal without a dog and pony show.
I thought you have to have 66 to impeach...in Senate