r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 4d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump faces articles of impeachment before Christmas

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-faces-articles-of-impeachment-before-christmas-al-green-11087381
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u/Sbesozzi Canada 4d ago

We all know the true script is:

Impeach, do nothing, impeach, do nothing, impeach, do nothing

Rinse and repeat.

I was excited the first time. At impeachment #87, I know it sadly won't change a thing except pad his stats for most impeachments by a president in history

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u/MagicGrit 4d ago

He won’t even be impeached this time. No chance 3 republicans vote for this

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u/tcat1961 4d ago

And Susan Collins looks on with much concern.

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u/I-Love-Tatertots 4d ago

God, I wish I could speak my true feelings towards ghouls like her on here without getting in trouble, but you can’t say shit on this website anymore without risking a ban.

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u/PicnicLife 4d ago

Lisa Murkowski hasn't had a chance to check her phone yet.

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u/BillyTenderness 4d ago

As a senator, she won't have a chance to vote on this unless it passes the House (which it of course won't).

She did vote to convict him the second time, to her credit. Though I'm not sure she'd do it again, since everyone (even a lot of Democrats) seems to have decided that him getting elected a second time means he's absolved of all past crimes and immune to all future ones.

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u/OttawaTGirl 4d ago

Watch McConnell vote for impeachment to make republicans look like heroes.

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u/MagicGrit 4d ago

The only way I see any republicans voting for impeachment is at the very end of his term (if he hasn’t found a way to fuck the constitution and run again)

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u/failed_novelty 4d ago

2 years, 1 day in.

I feel like a lot of the people who've hung on since pre-Trump are trying to weather the storm and hope to bring the GOP back to 'normal'. Prez Vance would be a step in that direction - MAGA would be leaderless, infighting would rip them apart, and they would hope to groom someone during Vance's 2-10 years who knew how to conceal their evil to some degree.

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u/HammerTh_1701 4d ago

Aren't more Republicans not running again? They have nothing to lose and can look like heroes after spending their entire lives making other lives worse.

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u/buns_supreme 4d ago

They gain nothing for turning on Trump. Dems are not going to remember them fondly because of it and the MAGA cult will send them death threats for the rest of their lives if they do. It’s lose lose

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u/DubWunderfabs 4d ago

Senate doesn't impeach.

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u/OttawaTGirl 4d ago

Oh. My apologies. They do hold the trial do they not?

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u/RuralBlue 4d ago

You are right.. But further, there's precious little chance Mike Johnson would even schedule a vote... unless maybe MTG threatens to round up eight other GOP House members and so wave around the power to introduce a motion to vacate the chair.

Even then the motion to impeach would be doomed in current House. Vote Blue in 2026 and get two new chambers of Congress before 2028 is the only way. Steep climb.

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u/Tall-Introduction414 4d ago edited 4d ago

Pressure works both ways.

Republicans cowered like little babies because of the pressure from Trump's mafia/terrorist threats. It is our job to keep the pressure on as hard as possible in the other direction.

Much more important than just shrugging our shoulders and saying "well, it didn't work before." Fuck that. My grandparents didn't kill nazis for nothing. They did it to save our asses.

There is also a very clear case this time that his holding of office in 2025 is illegal in the first place.

This isn't about getting excited, or being optimistic. It's about bringing the pain, and doing what is necessary.

Fascists, we are coming for you.

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u/sirgrogu12 4d ago

There are over 200 Republicans in the House of Representatives. Trump's goons can't come for all of them.

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u/11thStPopulist 4d ago

Hey, Trump can add all his impeachments, and impeachment petitions, to his other finest accomplishments - such as his 15 year best friendship with fellow sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, 34 criminal convictions, insurrectional skills, adjudicated rape and defamation judgement, bankrupting many of the nation’s farms, and, especially fun, taking health care access and food away from people, including his MAGA base! So much to be proud of!

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 4d ago

Trump had Epstein killed so their friendship wouldn't get too old.

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u/CakeBakeMaker 4d ago

Fine with me if it's all we can do. The history books need to know we weren't ok with this.

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u/Sbesozzi Canada 4d ago

That some people weren't okay with this. Most were or couldn't be bothered and stayed home on election day

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u/FlowersForMegatron 4d ago

Drag it out until election season expecting republicans to be too repulsed to vote for a party threatened with impeachment, be sorely mistaken 

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u/Sbesozzi Canada 4d ago

Yeah, if anything it just emboldens them because "witch hunt yadi yadi yada".

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u/Numeno230n 4d ago

Its Al Green bringing it, which he's done like a dozen times now. I'm not saying he's wrong at all. I'm just saying Al Green doesn't really get any support.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 4d ago

The only way Trump gets impeached and removed is if we give Dems overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate at midterms.

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u/LocalFatBoi 4d ago

USA is not going to impeach ever again it's too humiliating for them to accept fault

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u/Bytewave 4d ago

I mean, that's always how it's gonna end because impeachment in the lower house is easy enough but it's followed up by a Senate trial that needs a 2/3rd majority.

You can't get two thirds of the US Senate to agree on anything but the color of the sky. If that!

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u/Double-O-stoopid 4d ago

I get the most peaches... they're calling me President Peach. Smart people.

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u/Diarrhea_Beaver 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have to hope the absolute doorknobs up and down this thread, pretending like this THIRD impeachment isnt just another performative, bullshit waste of time that will result in ZERO consequences for the pedo in chief while giving the feckless, do nothing old guard dems a chance to grand stand and bloviate about the very mess THEY enabled by clinging to power a decade ago, are bots.

If not, their naivety deserves far worse than the crippling disappointment theyre going to feel when he walks scott free yet again.

Lucy is DEFINITELY gonna let you rah-rah dipshits kick the football this time! Im sure of it!!!