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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi moves to muzzle Trump impeachment talk [View all]Akoto
(4,266 posts)It's a guaranteed loss, and yes, impeachment is a case where taking your time to do your due diligence is better than doing it for symbolic purposes (no, I don't care about Clinton; he was having an affair, Trump is a maniac). If you fail, you probably don't get a second try. The fact is, she could call for it right now, but we'll lose for two reasons:
1. Before we impeach, we need solid numbers on our side in the House and Senate. We don't have them.
2. Before we impeach, we need air tight evidence that he committed the severe crimes we'd be holding him responsible for. You can't just point at incident X and say, "Look there, that's where he's doing X!" It takes a much more thorough process of investigation, documentation, and recruitment of informed witnesses than that.
Once we lose the impeachment, then historically speaking, there's almost no chance that any further motions for one will succeed. This is the kind of thing you do cautiously and meticulously, so that every legal escape route is met with evidence to block it plus the votes to get it through Congress. Then, you move.
Right now, they're starting lower down the ladder, but those people have 'open' indictments, meaning more charges could be added. That could be viewed as a method of trying to flip them: you help us get the next highest fish up the ladder, hand us the dirt, and we won't throw everything in the book that we *could* at you.
Just my perspective on the matter.