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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"They'll find a reason to impeach me".
So said Donald Trump. In the event that Democrats were to win the Congress in November?
But, not to worry Donald. Unlike yourself, all charges will be adequately investigated, with witnesses under oath. There will be no seashells.
If you are not guilty of any crimes, you will not be impeached. But high crimes and misdemeanors are still the standard that must be met.
Your attempted theft of taxpayers dollars from the Treasury for your individual slush fund will be a good start.
Embroiling the country in a war in the Middle East without consultation with the Congress deserves an explanation. You have done great harm to America and the economies of the rest of the world. You do not get to slither away to Mar-a-Lago without some answers.
Your side deals of making fortunes for yourself and your family are all illegal. It is forbidden by the Constitution. You can pretend that the emoluments clause does not exist or does not apply to the Trump family but it is still part of the Constitution and the law of the land.
You should have to relinquish all your ill-begotten gains. The Presidency was not created for you to enrich yourself.
Yes, there is a possibility that you may be impeached.
Ocelot II
(131,383 posts)The articles of impeachment could be thicker than the Oxford English Dictionary.
MLWR
(1,095 posts)William Seger
(12,545 posts)wnylib
(26,538 posts)They are so numerous that they jump out at every turn.
Hey Joe
(833 posts)hard as finding a reason to abandon a burning garbage barge that is taking on water and heading for a 200 ft waterfall.
Seinan Sensei
(1,657 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,191 posts)The problem will be how to choose.
OLDMDDEM
(3,300 posts)wnylib
(26,538 posts)deciding where to send him.
OLDMDDEM
(3,300 posts)wnylib
(26,538 posts)pat_k
(13,952 posts)...clear that there is NO WAY OUT of the global and domestic chaos and escalating harms of his criminal war on Iran as long as he is in the White House, we could see some surprising developments.
The felon is incapable of sucking up the humiliating "deal" required
He knows that the only way out would paint a giant L for Loser on his forehead.
And he is constitutionally incapable of accepting a loss.
Remember the outtakes from his Jan 7, 2021 speech?
"I don't want to say the election is over."
Perhaps a year from now enough Republicans will finally wake up and realize that there is no way out as long as he is in the WH. Any resolutions will be vetoed. Perhaps enough will have had it to override, but perhaps not.
At some point, we'll see a succession of them tramping up to the WH and giving him a choice: Resign for health reasons to save face or you WILL be impeached and removed -- there are enough of us now.
Then J.D. will make the humiliating deal.
And who knows? Perhaps he'll be so pissed at the felon for putting him in that position that he releases the Epstein files without the Trump redactions.
Such a scenario would not surprise me in the least.
OLDMDDEM
(3,300 posts)It would take a crane to get him to do it and move him out of Washington, but it would be worth it for the country's sake.
pat_k
(13,952 posts)... keep there fingers in their ears and sing "la la la" to enable them to hang onto the fantasy that the criminal war on Iran will magically end "any day now" and all will just "snap back" to some tolerable trumpian business as usual.
It may be that a few wake up before the mid-terms, but my guess is that it will take a combination of a mid-term rout and the grim one-year anniversary of his criminal and monumentally insane attack on Iran for enough of them to face reality. And that reality is that the crisis isn't Iran, the Crisis is Trump and his inability to take the loss -- his inability to suck up the humiliation of re-committing to Obama's treaty, shovelling 10x the amount of money at them that Obama did, and making a disastrous concession on the law of the sea to allow an "environmental fee" (i.e. toll).
Attilatheblond
(9,311 posts)All DEMs will have to do is whittle down the evidence for charges addressing the MOST damaging things the rat has done to our nation.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,637 posts)Don't need to "find" them---they're right out there in the open!
ananda
(35,558 posts)So many reasons already you'd have to
wear a blindfold not to find them.
GoodRaisin
(11,082 posts)about impeachment. He would like that.
Stay on the economy and affordability.
Until there are enough Republican votes in the Senate to remove him from office, impeachment would be a waste of time and money. When the subject comes up we should say that.
wnylib
(26,538 posts)mention impeachment. That would play right into Trump's purple little hands.
He is mentioning impeachment now in order to motivate his base and MAGAs in Congress to make sure that Dems don't win.
MadameButterfly
(4,191 posts)But mentioning his crimes in the interest of waking us up to the impending destruction of democracy, that needs to happen.
We need to win both houses or no more elections.
Mad_Machine76
(25,030 posts)FakeNoose
(42,542 posts)There has never been a more deserving President in US history. He should have been convicted and removed in his 2nd impeachment - after the FAILED COUP of January 6th, 2021. If the Repukes had done their duty and convicted him, he never would have been able to run again for a 2nd term.
This is all on them - the Senate Repukes who didn't convict him in 2021.
wnylib
(26,538 posts)I am sure that's he believes he doesn't.
He is saying this now in order to rev up his base to vote and to get them to impede the Dem voters.
3catwoman3
(29,859 posts)...the biggest, the best, nobody's ever seen anything like it, etc.
He'd be beating his own record of being the only president to have been impeached twice.
Snackshack
(2,601 posts)Impeach or even jail DJT are lying all over the floor like scraps of paper.
No one needs to look hard to 'find' a reason.
C_U_L8R
(49,562 posts)Its not hard. This clown is a tsunami of a crime wave.
paleotn
(22,810 posts)Take your pick. He adds to the list of impeachable offenses daily.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,739 posts)When you surround yourself with sycophants and ass kissers, they're never going to warn you about boundaries.
jmowreader
(53,425 posts)Finding a reason to impeach Trump is like finding the Empire State Building when youre standing across the street from it.
AverageOldGuy
(4,224 posts)"A" reason?? "A" is singluar.
How about "They'll find at least 100 reasons to impeach me".
Unwind Your Mind
(2,368 posts)What? Like its hard?
Elle on getting in to Harvard Law, Legally Blonde
Dr. T
(739 posts)every last dime he's made from bald-faced bribes and insider trading. Review every emoluments clause violation and recover all of it.
Fil1957
(901 posts)will, 'cause you committed a crime, you doofus.
mvd
(65,963 posts)And started on day 1 of his maladministration.
MineralMan
(151,645 posts)Yes, he will be impeached. But, there still won't be 67 Senators who will vote to convict him.
Let's focus on something else. Let's focus on just regaining the majority in both houses and winning the Presidential election on 2028.
Let's not focus on impeaching the crooked actor in the White House. Let's pay attention to what we need to do to win in 2026 and 2028. If we can manage that, we might be able to undo some of the damage.
If all we look at is an impeachment, we're going to lose everything. That, I can guarantee. It has already happened twice, for Jebus's Sake!
Focus, folks. Focus!
PatrickforB
(15,542 posts)JohnnyRingo
(21,017 posts)Let me know when you predict the indictments for your family
chouchou
(3,345 posts)I suggest his Mob should be paraded in cages down every city in America...With lots of rotten fruit and cartons of eggs.
We can pay Professional Major leagues pitchers to throw the Strikes!
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MissouriDem47
(445 posts)The East Wing of the White House is currently laying in ruins, what other reasons do they need?
beyondtimes
(28 posts)Alan Dershowitz come to the rescue again?
mdbl
(8,796 posts)He's done everything he can to make sure he would be impeached. That's what makes this GOP controlled congress all the more responsible for enabling his crimes against our country.
City Lights
(26,055 posts)But, Pedo Rapist is a lifelong criminal. Criming and grifting are all he knows.
Marcuse
(9,097 posts)Bettie
(19,914 posts)every single day, it's not hard to find a reason.
It's slapping us in the face every day.
pat_k
(13,952 posts)Impeachment is a positive feature for a majority.
You can bet the numbers for impeachment will grow as the global and domestic chaos and harms of his criminal war on Iran escalate.
And those harms will escalate. He will NEVER suck up the humiliating "deal" required to extricate himself. He knows it would paint a big L for Loser on his forehead, and the psychopath is incapable of accepting loss.
He is already pivoting to "holding out is strength" (with the corollary that holding out a very long time is super-strength). He is attempting to manage expectations of the strait being opened before the mid-terms with his "I do not care about the mid-terms." Next he'll probably start citing the fact Obama's team took two years to negotiate the treaty. (Although he may be smart enough to avoid that given that it would just remind everyone he tore up that hard won treaty -- a treaty allies were on board with, unlike his criminal war.)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/majority-backs-trump-impeachment-even-one-in-five-of-his-own-voters/
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22-strength-in-numbers-verasight-impeachment-polling
That net +18 verdict puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974 more on that comparison below. The toplines and crosstabs for this poll can be found on the Strength In Numbers website.l
ShepKat
(549 posts)You're givin' me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons
And if you say something that you might even mean
It's hard to even fathom which parts I should believe
'Cause you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons
Katinfl
(897 posts)He didnt do half of what trump has done. Watergate is a walk in the park compared to trumps corruption.
Escape
(528 posts)shouldn't they be recused from participating in the proceedings and in the final impeachment voting?
NNadir
(38,627 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,768 posts)Which....if Dems do take the House...despite Trump's attempts to steal it, they will hopefully start hearings.
I think far fewer of Republicans will fall for that victim mentality again.
Progressive dog
(7,622 posts)along with lots of evidence to prove them the beyond a reasonable doubt.
whopis01
(3,934 posts)is that you have to dig through a pile of reasons to impeach him in order to find the one you want.
It is like searching for a reason-to-impeach in a reason-to-impeach-stack.
tavernier
(14,529 posts)Oh, look
theres one! And Ill be, theres another one. And wait
is that six more? Sixteen?? Oh dear. Looks like a pit full of squirmy hissing vipers. Oh my goodness, what is that huge crawly thing? Its screaming!
Actually not as hard to find as I thought. But be careful
they all bite!
rubbersole
(11,289 posts)They'll find somebody who can translate it from Russian.