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House Dems Introduce Article of Impeachment
House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against Donald Trump on Monday. It charges the President with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging the crowd at Wednesday’s “Stop the Steal” rally to march to the U.S. Capitol. The ensuing riot temporarily shut down the legislative branch and resulted in deaths. The text follows (click to enlarge):
Before pursuing impeachment, the House will vote on a resolution asking Vice President Mike Pence to activate the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. If Pence does not respond within 24 hours of its passage, the House will consider impeachment.
There are only nine days left before Donald Trump’s presidential term ends.
My quick analysis is that this is all for show. If Speaker Pelosi actually wanted to remove Trump from office before Jan. 20, the House would have voted for impeachment by Friday (or over the weekend at the very latest) and delivered it to the Senate Monday. She doesn’t need to issue ultimatums to Pence, since Congress has the power to remove the President whenever they like.
Pelosi also is well aware that the Senate is out of session and Senate Majority Leader said the earliest they could reconvene is after Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Now that’s splitting the party.
I don’t knw anything about any of them other than Cheney.
No, I wasn’t referring to the primary. Trump’s approval rating before the election with Republican was north of 90%. I was speaking of the splits in the party that Ole Summers specifically refers to in his post which you should still read if you haven’t.
All Monsters in thrall to the evil that is DC.
So what does the GOP want? A return to loser milquetoast candidates like McCain and Romney? So we can lose gracefully? Trump appealed to minorities to a greater degree than prior Republicans. That all goes away because that was Trump, not the GOPe.
Well that’s not a split party. Differences of opinion are always in any party. The fact that everyone supported and voted for Reagan shows how unified the party was.
Possibly it is for show, I’m not sure that it is. A person can be impeached after they have left office. It doesn’t often happen, but the threat is there.
In Trump’s case, he can run again in 2024.
He also stands to lose his 4 year’s worth of pension, and even more importantly, his Secret Services protection.
The Lefties’ leaders have stated again and again they will be putting everyone in orange jump suits – Trump, Melania, Ivanka and Jared, Don Jr and possibly even Barron.
All the rest of us have to worry about is going down for some micro aggressive activity that we as the White Privileged have overlooked until now.
Well, it remains to be seen how “split” the Republican Party is post-Trump. You haven’t shown that in any definitive way. Given that Trump grew the party with more minority voters and also grew his vote total some 10+ million since 2016, the loss of NeverTrumpers was negligible if not insignificant, despite how important they claim to be.
Two of my state’s republican house critters voted for impeachment. This is disgusting.
A lot of us have had all the closure we need.
Between Russia Collusion, the charges of our being racists and White Supremacists for supporting Trump, the idea that people with extreme sensitivities should be protected by limiting free speech and also libs desiring to classifying any speech that is not pro-progressive insanity as hate speech, the stolen election and much more have closed the door on many of us ever wanting to look at another Dem or progressive for the rest of our lives.