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David Frum ✔ @davidfrum
Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million votes. He was "constitutionally elected," by an 18th century constitutional design that includes a ban on foreign bribes to the president and that offers impeachment and removal as a remedy for bribe-seeking
Mickey Kaus @kausmickey
I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president -- in Ukraine (2014) -- it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.
8:13 AM - Nov 13, 2019
spooky3
(34,447 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)It doesnt matter if he was democratically elected or not. He committed impeachable offenses. Getting baited into this being about the election is the response they want so that they can say we are trying to reverse the election.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)One might argue that the RusspubliCONs are trying to reverse the results of the 2018 election, but we should stay away from their briar patch and stay focused on treason, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)And point out Trump's offense is impeachable as the drafters of our Constitution intended it to be.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)Of course, a lot of the MAGAts believe that the popular vote was rigged because supposedly 3 million illegal immigrants voted in California. There is no proof of that, unless you consider Trump himself to be a valid source. They want to believe it, though, so they do.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Theres an oxymoron - anyway its good to see some on the other side coming to the correct conclusion.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)and we Canucks take our Canadian and American history quite seriously. I'd be willing to bet that From could outlast any American in a history "bee". And I forgive him for his turn as W's speecchwriter and advisor. I think he knows better, now!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)the 2.9 million was only for Hillary. Another 7 million voted 3rd Party.
catbyte
(34,381 posts)that matter, everything that Rick Wilson, George Will, Bill Kristol, Anna Navarro Cardenas, Jennifer Rubin, even Nicolle Wallace & Steve Schmidt said. It's like I'm living in some Bizarro World/Twilight Zone. I feel like a battered woman/PTSD survivor. And I'm not saying that lightly or jokingly. I feel emotionally damaged by that thing currently infesting the White House and by all of that thing's apologists in Congress and his goddamned cult.
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Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)nm
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Kind of hard to disparage the constitution if we need to use that same constitution to investigate the pResident.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)He used a refutation of the democratically elected claim to point out the same Constitution that enabled Trump's election is the same document that prohibits his behavior and is what makes impeaching him for it possible.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)vote.. he can't take it that Hillary got more Millions More Votes.