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I've decided that impeachment is absolutely essential even...
... though we know the senate won't convict. This is to get all the facts out on the table and to educate the American public about the Constitution.
Republicans argue that Democrats have been trying to impeach Donald Trump since Day One
I would argue that Donald Trump has been trying to impeach himself since Day One.
He was showing his scofflaw tactics even before he was inaugurated. His disregard for the Constitution and the law were on full display for all to see....
Here's the Problem
The framers of the Constitution attempted to foresee, as much as possible, future events – such as a president who committed ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdeamours’ – and succinctly set out the remedy to address that possibility: impeachment.
What the framers didn’t foresee was a president so arrogantly corrupt, he would simply ignore the Constitution he swore to protect and defend. What they didn’t envision was a president insisting that he is above the laws he swore to uphold. What they didn’t imagine was a US president standing on the world stage and declaring that the adversarial foreign power that attacked our election was blameless, and that the nation’s true enemies were those who questioned his actions and/or openly opposed them....
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