RiverDog wrote:
Why would it being 2017 vs. 1972 make any difference on whether or not Trump would be facing impeachment charges?
Why should he be removed from office? What "high crimes and misdemeanors" has he committed, and please, list your evidence.
And I think you can forget about the Dems cleaning up in the mid terms, at least as far as the Senate goes. The Republicans only have to defend 8 seats, and 3 of those won their 2012 election by 65+%, while the Dems have to defend 23 states, with 10 of those being in red states won by Trump. It takes 67 votes in the Senate to remove a Prez from office.
That was the dirty little secret of the 2016 election, ie that the Dems blew a huge opportunity to retake the Senate and set themselves up to be dominated in the 2018 midterms. They can't rationalize that failure to launch by blaming the Comey letter or Russian hacking.
Sigh....
Yesterday Donald J Trump stood on foreign soil and blasted his predecessor for not doing anything about hacking while at the same time pooh pooing the hacking itself, saying "nobody really knows" who did it, might have been others etc.and tossing his own intelligence community under the bus in the process. Of course he is doing NOTHING about the hacking,NOTHING although it was reported yesterday that Russian covert spying activity IN THE US has spiked significantly since the election. Barn door is wide open so to speak.....hes supposed to be protecting us RD, hes the commander in chief.
He fired his FBI director and a day later admitted it was over the "russia thing" to the entire world. A day after that he told the two Russian sleazeballs he allowed in our oval office that removing "nut job" Comey had relieved great pressure on the Russian investigation. Then he blurted out top secret info to them during the same meeting.He released the top secret location of 2 of our nuke subs to Phillipine Strongman Duerte, again on film. He is on tape openly encouraging Russia to hack Hillary's Emails.
IMO he is aiding and abetting our sworn enemy, as Romney so correctly stated in the 2012 debates, our "greatest geopolitical threat". Hes committing treason almost every time he opens his mouth on Russia IMO.Former NSA chief James Clapper said "watergate pales in comparison to this scandal' and yet Trump will not acknowledge it.
He is violating the emoluments clause by refusing to divest his business interests which already have resulted in curious decisions by China and Russia among others to renew trademarks, issue new ones, issue permits for Trumps organizations to begin projects overseas.
Hell yes he'd be impeached or impaled on a pitchfork if it were 1972. No Faux news to keep the 37% shills blissfully ignorant coupled with a voting public that still gave a Sh*t about the USSR hed be gone like a bad habit.
Nixon was a popular president reelected in a landslide with a Republican majority in congress and they were resistant at first but when Nixon's popularity hit the 20's he was a goner.
We are swirling the porcelain queen when a complete POS like this can trample the constitution and remain in power but I agree unless it gets much worse he will not be removed. I also question whether democrats can retake the congress although its a long time till Nov 2018 and even longer till 2020 and Trump never ceases to amaze me with his stupid and outrageous behavior. Maybe some people's vision will clear up by then.