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| Not likely to get past coloring book stage |
The
release of a redacted version of the Mueller report about the Russian
government interfering with the 2016 election process to benefit Trump may well
have come up with nothing that would warrant a straightforward criminal charge
against The Donald himself.
BUT
IT REALLY is a complete lie to say that Trump was vindicated in any way by the
report. There are enough details to make Trump look like a buffoon in ways that
some members of Congress would like to use as justification to proceed with impeachment.
Which
is a concept I don’t think much of because I think the ultimate failure would
be twisted by Trump as further evidence that he was “vindicated” – which would
be a total lie.
Yes,
the Democratic majority that controls the House of Representatives does have
enough people that they could go ahead and approve articles of impeachment.
They could say they “impeached” Trump the same way that Republican ideologues
always like to say they “impeached” former President Bill Clinton.
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| Tickets bearing admission to Johnson, Clinton … |
But
to actually remove a sitting president requires a trial before the full Senate –
with the Supreme Court chief justice presiding. It would require a
supermajority of support to convict and remove him from office.
THERE’S
NO WAY the current Republican-leaning Senate would even come close to doing any
such thing.
Republican
partisans wound up making fools of themselves back in 1998 when they persisted
in trying to remove Clinton from office – unable to create a bipartisan movement
that actually believed there were legitimate grounds the president needed to be
ejected from office.
Do
we really need to see the same happen, in reverse?
House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said she’s not inclined to support actions
toward impeachment because she agrees it would be a waste of time. Republican
ideologues are determined to support Trump no matter how clueless and ignorant
he gets.
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| … impeachment proceedings. Will Trump be next? |
So
maybe it seems some people are determined to play out the same ignorance of
some two decades ago – only to see the incumbent remain in office.
There
is one point we ought to keep in mind in coming months as some people continue
to tout the “I” word as the only fate that Trump ought to have to endure.
“Impeachment”
is a political process – NOT a legal one. Which is very well why it may be
possible that Trump didn’t do anything in conjunction with Russian government
officials that would be worthy of criminal prosecution, but where his behavior would
have crossed over so many ethical lines of appropriateness that officials could
talk seriously about removing him from office.
NONETHELESS,
I BELIEVE that people interested in removing Trump from the White House ought
to focus their efforts and attention on the 2020 election cycle – come up with
a candidate who can put together a credible vision for our society that would
bring this Age of Trump to an end!
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| Not as 'final' an act as some might think |
Something
that, as of now, may not happen – as we seem to have so many politicos determined
to think that anybody can beat up on Trump without having a proper vision for
our society that they can offer. Which is a formula for failure.
As
in we could well get the “four more years” that Republican ideologues will
fantasize about and chant for often in coming months by people determined to
vote for Trump solely because he offends the vast majority of us.
And
all the talk about “impeachment” that some people seem determined to engage in
now will turn out to be a complete waste of time!
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