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In reply to the discussion: Not impeaching Trump would make a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruin our country. [View all]Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)28. It's about right and wrong.
The American people will hold Democrats accountable in the voting booth if they don't do the right thing and they will deserve it.
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Not impeaching Trump would make a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruin our country. [View all]
shockey80
Dec 2018
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It'd say the president can do anything the president wants to do, the president is above the law.
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#3
You give "the American people" more credit than they generally show they deserve.
onenote
Dec 2018
#29
Is there a reliable poll showing a majority of the American people support impeachment at this time?
onenote
Dec 2018
#33
+1,000,000 This! This is where the media acts as "fourth estate" - if branches of gov't are at a
diva77
Dec 2018
#22
Exactly. A website listing Trump's impeachable offenses is having trouble keeping up. That's
diva77
Dec 2018
#25
What it accomplishes is to establish that the law comes first and partisan expediency comes after.
paulkienitz
Dec 2018
#58
And then he's acquitted in the Senate.......aka declared "Not guilty". Wonderful optics.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#61
Agreed! Impeachment, without a remote possibility of conviction would only strengthen Trump, and...
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2018
#13
This isn't a case of someone lying about an affair. This is a case of the most criminal president...
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#17
+1. "Hey, we know he's guilty, but we don't know if the jury is going to convict or not,
dalton99a
Dec 2018
#75
I don't agree with the assumption that it's Democrats who would suffer blowback.
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#48
I'm pretty sure congress can impeach, run committees and pass new legislation
Equinox Moon
Dec 2018
#27
Impeaching Trump only to have the Senate exonerate him is just as much a farce.
tandem5
Dec 2018
#47
I don't agree. It pretty much ruins the impeached person forever, and I have no problem doing that
BamaRefugee
Dec 2018
#50
Impeachment didn't ruin Bill Clinton, it increased his popularity. So your premise is wrong. nt
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2018
#73
THE FIX IS ALREADY IN. I watched Jerry Nadler, on THE LAST WORD, say that impeachment would...
BamaRefugee
Dec 2018
#49
Impeaching is not the issue its getting the Senate to convict after that is the issue
cstanleytech
Dec 2018
#52
If HIGH CRIMES deserving of impeachment are exposed, then the House should IMPEACH
Martin Eden
Dec 2018
#56
You need 2/3 of the Senate and overwhelming evidence of high crimes. It's not simple.
LBM20
Dec 2018
#60
It's REPUBLICANS who have made a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruined our country
EleanorR
Dec 2018
#66