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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:31 AM Jun 2017

Could we end up in a scenario like this?

Where the investigations determine that tRump did indeed violate laws yet the Repub House does not proceed with articles of impeachment?

That just seems untenable and unbearable for our country.

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Could we end up in a scenario like this? (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2017 OP

Yes we could, which is why the 2018 election is so important marylandblue Jun 2017 #1

It does seem untenable and unbearable. But I am also wondering what if jrthin Jun 2017 #2

Very likely until 2018... Moostache Jun 2017 #3

I think, sadly, this is the likely outcome Va Lefty Jun 2017 #4

I don't think it is a likely outcome especially if they lose the House in 18. NT. Demsrule86 Jun 2017 #6

It could happen but he could still be prosecuted after he leaves office Demsrule86 Jun 2017 #5

I wouldn't get it, though. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2017 #7

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

1. Yes we could, which is why the 2018 election is so important

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:33 AM

Jun 2017

jrthin

(4,835 posts)

2. It does seem untenable and unbearable. But I am also wondering what if

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:33 AM

Jun 2017

Mueller finds criminal activity, like money laundering and mob activity, what happens then? Are we still in a position to do nothing?

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

3. Very likely until 2018...

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:35 AM

Jun 2017

The GOP asshats are drunk on their unified dominance of the government....SCOTUS, POTUS, Both Houses...
They would look at a video of Trump choking someone and claim he was performing the Heimlich.

The term "most important" election gets bandied about a lot, but the 2018 mid-terms will decide whether or not we retain a true representative republic or simply roll over and become a full-on banana republic forever more...

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

4. I think, sadly, this is the likely outcome

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:44 AM

Jun 2017

republicans, who are singularly focused on tax cuts and repealing the health care law and keeping their base happy, don’t give a shit. That means we better come up with a progressive plan to improve people’s lives before the midterm elections, because these hearings—or Trump’s incompetence and rank dishonesty, or repeatedly emphasizing how This Is Not Normal—won’t win elections for us.

Demsrule86

(68,539 posts)

6. I don't think it is a likely outcome especially if they lose the House in 18. NT.

Reply to Va Lefty (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:59 AM

Jun 2017

Demsrule86

(68,539 posts)

5. It could happen but he could still be prosecuted after he leaves office

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:58 AM

Jun 2017

and if say New York state charges him...he can't be pardoned.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,157 posts)

7. I wouldn't get it, though.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Jun 9, 2017, 11:05 AM

Jun 2017

If Trump gets impeached and removed, they'd get President Pence, and as that's no real relief to you or me, to them I'm sure he's probably much easier to deal with on a personal basis than the highly volatile and mentally imbalanced Trump.

I guess they figure--as they should because it's true--they've permanently fused to Trump's legacy at this point, so if he goes down, he brings them all down with him politically.

For Pence and for congressional Republicans, there'd be no escaping Trump's toxic residual stench long after he's gone. Sucks for them.

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