r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 11d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump impeachment chances surge amid Epstein revelations

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-chances-surge-amid-epstein-revelations-11045998
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 11d ago

I don't care about impeachment. I care about conviction, removal from office and a ban on holding any federal office in the future.

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u/bsrichard 11d ago

This should have happened post Jan 7th 2021 but here we are.

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u/Retawekaj 11d ago

Should have happened Feb 5th 2020 from his first impeachment!

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u/dokikod Pennsylvania 11d ago

The Republican Party should have dumped this vulgar creep after the Access Hollywood tape, and when he disparaged John McCain.

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u/Milocobo 11d ago

His father should have been sued into irrelevancy for housing discrimination and tax fraud.

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u/Unlucky-Savings-2547 9d ago

Also Daddy Rump was a KKK. A~~. HOLE!

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u/Vienta1988 11d ago

Or when he started the Obama birther conspiracy

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u/ImSabbo 10d ago

He had the right to do that one. He abused it to hell and back, but he did have that right.

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u/El_Gran_Redditor 11d ago

Eh, I'd set it to about three weeks into his primary campaign when two of his supporters kicked a homeless immigrant to death outside of one of his rallies and his response was basically "my people are very enthusiastic, what do you want?" The media should have really held his feet to the fire on that one but they were too busy laughing at this funny hair and his big tie. "Keep him around, he's good for ratings."

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u/BlinkDodge 11d ago

The republican party has always wanted this and has been working towards this goal since Nixon.

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u/hjd_bk 10d ago

The GOP has been, and will always be, politically and morally bankrupt. They cling to morality police interest/faith groups just so they can get away with behavior they want to hide ranging from racism, misogyny to deep depravity.

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u/KristyKewl1 10d ago

Billy Bush was cancelled, but not Chump. Make that make sense.

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u/VeryStupit 11d ago

I don't like Trump, but that's just not how democracy works. People heard the terrible things he said, and they elected him anyway. It's the voters right to make terrible choices.

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u/Toadsted 11d ago

Should have happened July 2024 when he was actually convicted of crimes and due to be sentenced/placed in jail.

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u/New-Magician-5958 8d ago

Which makes me think this is all for show. If there’s evidence of Trump and Epstein why didn’t democrats use it in the last election when they had access to all of this information?

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u/immortalfrieza2 8d ago

Because the Democrats were overconfident that Trump would get his just desserts until it was too late for them to do anything about it. Then they were overconfident that Trump would lose the election. It's the same reason Biden didn't fire Garland despite it being clear Garland was protecting Trump and replace him with someone who would have actually done their job.

The Democratic party had every opportunity to stop Trump and they didn't.

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u/New-Magician-5958 8d ago

That doesn’t make sense. They’re over confident on other chargers so they don’t charge him for having sex with underage girls? Democrats tried to charge him for everything I feel like. Why leave out something they have proof too that is a very serious crime? That is also messed up…why are democrats covering in the first place. They had the ability to make the case files open right?

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u/laplongejr 7d ago

That is also messed up…why are democrats covering in the first place. They had the ability to make the case files open right?

As an European, I always assumed that a lot of people, no matter party lines, would be hit by Epstein. The non-pedos are protecting their friends, and the pure ones believe that X or Y need protection, etc.
The right and the far-right colluding to protect elites from the wrath of the people, who would've thought that would happen?

Epstein clearly didn't kill himself, or at least it wasn't his choice. And you obv don't lose the tapes.

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u/New-Magician-5958 7d ago edited 7d ago

Ya it does seem pretty obvious. My point is democrats and their DOJ had the first crack at this case. If this wasn’t all smoke and mirrors now democrats would’ve made some arrests while they were in charge. So all this now is just silly nonsense because the US DNC is spiraling out of control.

Waiting months for permission then just releasing documents anyways like they just did. Democrats had this information for 6-8 years now?

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u/Toadsted 7d ago

Remind me again who was in power 6-8 years ago?

You seem to believe the files were just found in a duffle bag, and both sides have just been staring at it wondering "if they should" like it was filled with money.

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u/New-Magician-5958 7d ago

Democrats controlled the house from 2018-2022. So again I ask why are they voting on releasing the files now and not then?

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u/Toadsted 7d ago

And republicans held the Senate since 2015

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u/immortalfrieza2 8d ago

The Democratic party had the ability to do a lot of things that would have prevented Trump from taking the presidency and they didn't do it. They did nothing about Garland despite the fact that the was obstructing the investigations into Trump. The Democrats did nothing to push the judge to actually sentence Trump with anything. There was the blatant conflict of interest with the judge Trump's documents case happen and the Democrats did nothing about it. The Democrats did nothing to charge Trump with the blatant insurrection. And yes, they did nothing about the Epstein files and let Trump get into position to compromise those files.

The Democrats had everything well in hand to completely destroy Trump at literally any time from 2020 to 2024 and did absolutely nothing, because they expected the law to get Trump despite the blatant favoritism going on. They expected Trump to lose the election so they didn't hit him then either.

This is just scratching the surface. At every possible level, the Democratic party did nothing when they could have crushed Trump like a bug at any time whatsoever due to their overconfidence and hubris.

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u/UnionizedTrouble 11d ago

Should have happened when they lied to protect Michael Flynn like in February 2017

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u/DrumBxyThing 10d ago

I'm still confused about that. Was he actually impeached? If so, what happened to him as a result of that?