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Claritie Pixie

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5. Andrew Johnson - Impeachment Article X - would apply to Trump.
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 11:50 AM
Aug 2019

ARTICLE X.

That said Andrew Johnson. President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office and the dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained between the executive and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, designing and intending to set aside the rightful authority and powers of Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the Congress and legislative power thereof, (which all officers of the Government ought inviolably to preserve and maintain,) and to excite the odium and resentment of all the good people of the United States against Congress and the laws by it duly and constitutionally enacted: and in pursuance of said design and intent, openly and publicly, and before divers assemblages of the citizens of the United States convened in divers parts thereof to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, did, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1866, and on divers other days and times, as well before as afterward, make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces as well against Congress amid the cries, jeers, and laughter of the multitudes then assembled and within hearing...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/articles-of-impeachment-of-andrew-johnson/

Impeachment Charges [View all] Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 OP
I don't know the answer mainstreetonce Aug 2019 #1
I agree Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #2
It would have to be a blow job liberal N proud Aug 2019 #3
True blue Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #4
Andrew Johnson - Impeachment Article X - would apply to Trump. Claritie Pixie Aug 2019 #5
Andrew Johnson was impeached, in part, for disparaging Congress Fiendish Thingy Aug 2019 #6
+1 Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #7
Don't know how or of this would be applied but... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #8
I have said this many, many times Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #9
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