If Trump is elected, how many days before Congress impeaches him?

[Xipe Totec]

Just curious. Ballpark, are we talking days, weeks, or months?

[flamingdem]

1. Based on what offense? If so we'd better be concerned about

his running mate.

[Xipe Totec]

4. War crimes. And we can do a toofer.nt

[Quackers]

6. I'd say being Donald Trump is an offense by itself.

[Xipe Totec]

9. I was about to say...

[Quackers]

2. Can we start the paperwork now

Just in case?

[Kip Humphrey]

3. Did they impeach GW?

I think not.

[Xipe Totec]

5. They liked Dubya. nt

[dogman]

7. If he follows his rhetoric, he will violate the Constitution on the first day.

Impeachment will begin when he crosses Ryan.

[Javaman]

8. that is of course they take into account his VP as well..

because, if they impeach him, we maybe collectively going from frying pan to fire.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Ryan would take out both to become President. nt

[Frances]

11. Why would a Republican Contress impeach

a Republican president?

Senator Sessions has already endorsed Trump. Others will follow suit. Standing up to a bully takes courage and I just don't see Republicans doing that. Look at Chris Christie. He has already endorsed Trump.

[Xipe Totec]

13. They hate his guts and don't consider him a real Republican

Plus, Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House; third in line. If he takes out both Trump and his VP, then he becomes President just as Gerald Ford became President after forcing Spiro Agnew and Dick Nixon to resign.

[PufPuf23]

18. I always wondered if Pelosi not suppoorting impeachment of GWB and Cheney

was because she was Speaker of the House and thus third in line.

Trump will need to take specific action(s) to be impeached.

What I do expect should Trump be elected POTUS is a strong (in powers) Cabinet with more delegation from Trump than any earlier POTUS.

I also would expect a strong in power and activity VPOTUS, even more so than Cheney.

An effort would be made to concentrate power in the Executive, GWB/Cheney's Unitary Executive.

Trump wants to be king not POTUS.

I posted earlier that I would not be surprised if Ryan ended up the "strong" VPOTUS candidate at the GOP convention.

That is one way the GOP can restrain Trump.

[KamaAina]

19. Gerald Ford forced Spiro Agnew and Dick Nixon to resign?!

Tinfoil hats off, please.

[Xipe Totec]

22. You mean it didn't happen? Nixon stayed President?

Where's the tinfoil?

[KamaAina]

24. I always thought scandals forced Agnew and Nixon to resign.

I can hardly imagine the second-dumbest president in U.S. history engineering both!

Fun fact: Mom went to Towson High School outside Baltimore with Agnew's daughter Pam -- and with Divine!

[Xipe Totec]

27. I'm not saying he was a smart man

And I'm not saying he did it alone; he was no Nixon.

What I am saying is that the party which he headed decided Nixon had to go. and they also knew that they could not allow Spiro to become President. So the process required Spiro to go first, Ford to become VP, and then Nixon to resign so that Ford became President.

Arguing about whether Ford, specifically, engineered the whole thing is a distinction that makes no difference. The point is you take out the P & VP at the same time and Paul Ryan becomes President. That would not be a totally unpleasing outcome to him.

[Angleae]

41. Ford was never speaker of the house.

He was appointed as VP under the 25th amendment after Agnew's resignation and was VP for about 9 months befor nixon's resignation.

[Xipe Totec]

42. I stand corrected. nt

[dembotoz]

12. do not see the votes being there

for too many in the legislature party comes before country

[Xipe Totec]

14. Precisely why; Party first. They don't consider Trump a real Republican. nt

[Politicalboi]

15. Zero

The Queen on the other hand, immediately.

[Svafa]

16. As distrubing as Drumpf is to Dems and mainstream Repubs,

I can't imagine congress doing jack shit about him, sadly.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Zero.

A White House, Congress and eventually, a Supreme Court filled with wealth enablers as far as the eye can see, so they can dole out more lotteries, tax cuts and worker-screwing legislation to the rich (who'll then subsequently automate or layoff everyone into a destitute oblivion)? They're going to say "no" to that?

[Warren Stupidity]

20. At least 2922 days.

[Brother Buzz]

21. Do I calculate my guess using regular or 'business' hours?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. If that happens, he'd just fire Congress.

Because that's what Donald Trump does.

He fires people.

Don't believe me? See this:

You see? He fires people.

[Svafa]

33. Or he'd threaten to sue them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. Or send out a mean Tweet.

One involving the following words:

Loser
Failure
Dummy

[LittleBlue]

25. They aren't that dumb. Would basically turn the US into Putin's Russia

Trump would be swept back into power with unprecedented support.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. A Republican Congress will not impeach him as long as he can hold a pen.

If he breaks his hand, that might change.

[Xipe Totec]

28. It's happened before

And let's face it, Nixon was a far better President than Trumpolini can ever hope to be.

[Agnosticsherbet]

36. Democrats controlled the House of Representatives during Nixon's administration.

An impeachment must begin in the House and is successful on a simple majority. Once successful, the trial is held in the Senate, with 66 votes required to remove the President from office. Republicans control the House.

So, as long as there is a Republican House, even if they don't like Trump, they are not going to impeach him. Because the Senate requires 66 votes to remove the President from office, there is no way Democrats would control a sufficient majority in the Senate to achieve an impeachment.

[Sanity Claws]

29. If the electorate is foolish enough to elect Trump,

what makes you think that the electorate will elect a Congress that would be anti-Trump? Or even if sufficient members hated him, would they be afraid of backlash from the electorate that had elected Trump?

Traditional wisdom really doesn't apply anymore. Something odd is going on.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. Who's the vice prez?

Ann Coulter? Sarah Palin? Rick Santorum?

[Xipe Totec]

31. Doesn't matter. Kick em both out at the same time. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. I'm not sure impeachment works that way, but if it did, ...

... who's the speaker of the house?

[Xolodno]

35. They won't.

Taking Trump out of the Oval Office (if by some miracle he wins) will result in getting themselves thrown out if he's still popular.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

37. Let's hope we don't have to find out the answer to that question

My guess is that if he wins (don't even really want to picture that nightmare), the Republicans will try to find some way to bring him to heel before trying to figure out how to get rid of him.

[Xipe Totec]

38. ++ nt

[ellenrr]

39. what nonsense.

[Xipe Totec]

40. Thanks!

Glad to see somebody with a sense of humor on this board.

[madinmaryland]

43. No. Because he will select someone the Repubicans hate even more and would

never want to be president...




Nancy Pelosi or George Soros.

[Xipe Totec]

44. This post turned out to be a little too prophetic. nt