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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"They'll find a reason to impeach me".
So said Donald Trump. In the event that Democrats were to win the Congress in November?
But, not to worry Donald. Unlike yourself, all charges will be adequately investigated, with witnesses under oath. There will be no seashells.
If you are not guilty of any crimes, you will not be impeached. But high crimes and misdemeanors are still the standard that must be met.
Your attempted theft of taxpayers dollars from the Treasury for your individual slush fund will be a good start.
Embroiling the country in a war in the Middle East without consultation with the Congress deserves an explanation. You have done great harm to America and the economies of the rest of the world. You do not get to slither away to Mar-a-Lago without some answers.
Your side deals of making fortunes for yourself and your family are all illegal. It is forbidden by the Constitution. You can pretend that the emoluments clause does not exist or does not apply to the Trump family but it is still part of the Constitution and the law of the land.
You should have to relinquish all your ill-begotten gains. The Presidency was not created for you to enrich yourself.
Yes, there is a possibility that you may be impeached.
Ocelot II
(131,410 posts)The articles of impeachment could be thicker than the Oxford English Dictionary.
MLWR
(1,098 posts)William Seger
(12,545 posts)wnylib
(26,567 posts)They are so numerous that they jump out at every turn.
Hey Joe
(839 posts)hard as finding a reason to abandon a burning garbage barge that is taking on water and heading for a 200 ft waterfall.
Seinan Sensei
(1,661 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,193 posts)The problem will be how to choose.
GoCubsGo
(35,029 posts)But. there are so many of those, they could probablyy just put them on a board and throw darts at them to choose some of them.
haele
(15,630 posts)Like at an Easter Egg hunt for a 1 year old.
OLDMDDEM
(3,301 posts)wnylib
(26,567 posts)deciding where to send him.
OLDMDDEM
(3,301 posts)wnylib
(26,567 posts)ChazInAz
(3,036 posts)wnylib
(26,567 posts)timms139
(571 posts)be the only one who would welcome him. He could be deported the same day he is impeached as they would have a flight waiting on him .
pat_k
(13,995 posts)...clear that there is NO WAY OUT of the global and domestic chaos and escalating harms of his criminal war on Iran as long as he is in the White House, we could see some surprising developments.
The felon is incapable of sucking up the humiliating "deal" required
He knows that the only way out would paint a giant L for Loser on his forehead.
And he is constitutionally incapable of accepting a loss.
Remember the outtakes from his Jan 7, 2021 speech?
"I don't want to say the election is over."
Perhaps a year from now enough Republicans will finally wake up and realize that there is no way out as long as he is in the WH. Any resolutions will be vetoed. Perhaps enough will have had it to override, but perhaps not.
At some point, we'll see a succession of them tramping up to the WH and giving him a choice: Resign for health reasons to save face or you WILL be impeached and removed -- there are enough of us now.
Then J.D. will make the humiliating deal.
And who knows? Perhaps he'll be so pissed at the felon for putting him in that position that he releases the Epstein files without the Trump redactions.
Such a scenario would not surprise me in the least.
OLDMDDEM
(3,301 posts)It would take a crane to get him to do it and move him out of Washington, but it would be worth it for the country's sake.
pat_k
(13,995 posts)... keep there fingers in their ears and sing "la la la" to enable them to hang onto the fantasy that the criminal war on Iran will magically end "any day now" and all will just "snap back" to some tolerable trumpian business as usual.
It may be that a few wake up before the mid-terms, but my guess is that it will take a combination of a mid-term rout and the grim one-year anniversary of his criminal and monumentally insane attack on Iran for enough of them to face reality. And that reality is that the crisis isn't Iran, the Crisis is Trump and his inability to take the loss -- his inability to suck up the humiliation of re-committing to Obama's treaty, shovelling 10x the amount of money at them that Obama did, and making a disastrous concession on the law of the sea to allow an "environmental fee" (i.e. toll).
Attilatheblond
(9,327 posts)All DEMs will have to do is whittle down the evidence for charges addressing the MOST damaging things the rat has done to our nation.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,644 posts)Don't need to "find" them---they're right out there in the open!
ananda
(35,571 posts)So many reasons already you'd have to
wear a blindfold not to find them.
GoodRaisin
(11,090 posts)about impeachment. He would like that.
Stay on the economy and affordability.
Until there are enough Republican votes in the Senate to remove him from office, impeachment would be a waste of time and money. When the subject comes up we should say that.
wnylib
(26,567 posts)mention impeachment. That would play right into Trump's purple little hands.
He is mentioning impeachment now in order to motivate his base and MAGAs in Congress to make sure that Dems don't win.
MadameButterfly
(4,193 posts)But mentioning his crimes in the interest of waking us up to the impending destruction of democracy, that needs to happen.
We need to win both houses or no more elections.
wnylib
(26,567 posts)But the campaigns need to address specific concerns of everyday people, e.g. food, medicine, healthcare, housing. They can and should point out how Trump and his loyalists in Cingress have created the high costs of everything. Just do not mention impeachment.
Mad_Machine76
(25,031 posts)calimary
(90,987 posts)FakeNoose
(42,585 posts)There has never been a more deserving President in US history. He should have been convicted and removed in his 2nd impeachment - after the FAILED COUP of January 6th, 2021. If the Repukes had done their duty and convicted him, he never would have been able to run again for a 2nd term.
This is all on them - the Senate Repukes who didn't convict him in 2021.
wnylib
(26,567 posts)I am sure that's he believes he doesn't.
He is saying this now in order to rev up his base to vote and to get them to impede the Dem voters.
3catwoman3
(29,872 posts)...the biggest, the best, nobody's ever seen anything like it, etc.
He'd be beating his own record of being the only president to have been impeached twice.
Snackshack
(2,603 posts)Impeach or even jail DJT are lying all over the floor like scraps of paper.
No one needs to look hard to 'find' a reason.
C_U_L8R
(49,571 posts)Its not hard. This clown is a tsunami of a crime wave.
paleotn
(22,820 posts)Take your pick. He adds to the list of impeachable offenses daily.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,800 posts)When you surround yourself with sycophants and ass kissers, they're never going to warn you about boundaries.
jmowreader
(53,438 posts)Finding a reason to impeach Trump is like finding the Empire State Building when youre standing across the street from it.
AverageOldGuy
(4,232 posts)"A" reason?? "A" is singluar.
How about "They'll find at least 100 reasons to impeach me".
Unwind Your Mind
(2,368 posts)What? Like its hard?
Elle on getting in to Harvard Law, Legally Blonde
Dr. T
(739 posts)every last dime he's made from bald-faced bribes and insider trading. Review every emoluments clause violation and recover all of it.
Fil1957
(908 posts)will, 'cause you committed a crime, you doofus.
mvd
(65,963 posts)And started on day 1 of his maladministration.
MineralMan
(151,653 posts)Yes, he will be impeached. But, there still won't be 67 Senators who will vote to convict him.
Let's focus on something else. Let's focus on just regaining the majority in both houses and winning the Presidential election on 2028.
Let's not focus on impeaching the crooked actor in the White House. Let's pay attention to what we need to do to win in 2026 and 2028. If we can manage that, we might be able to undo some of the damage.
If all we look at is an impeachment, we're going to lose everything. That, I can guarantee. It has already happened twice, for Jebus's Sake!
Focus, folks. Focus!
PatrickforB
(15,542 posts)JohnnyRingo
(21,022 posts)Let me know when you predict the indictments for your family
chouchou
(3,348 posts)I suggest his Mob should be paraded in cages down every city in America...With lots of rotten fruit and cartons of eggs.
We can pay Professional Major leagues pitchers to throw the Strikes!
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MissouriDem47
(445 posts)The East Wing of the White House is currently laying in ruins, what other reasons do they need?
beyondtimes
(28 posts)Alan Dershowitz come to the rescue again?
mdbl
(8,798 posts)He's done everything he can to make sure he would be impeached. That's what makes this GOP controlled congress all the more responsible for enabling his crimes against our country.
City Lights
(26,064 posts)But, Pedo Rapist is a lifelong criminal. Criming and grifting are all he knows.
Marcuse
(9,105 posts)Bettie
(19,923 posts)every single day, it's not hard to find a reason.
It's slapping us in the face every day.
pat_k
(13,995 posts)Impeachment is a positive feature for a majority.
You can bet the numbers for impeachment will grow as the global and domestic chaos and harms of his criminal war on Iran escalate.
And those harms will escalate. He will NEVER suck up the humiliating "deal" required to extricate himself. He knows it would paint a big L for Loser on his forehead, and the psychopath is incapable of accepting loss.
He is already pivoting to "holding out is strength" (with the corollary that holding out a very long time is super-strength). He is attempting to manage expectations of the strait being opened before the mid-terms with his "I do not care about the mid-terms." Next he'll probably start citing the fact Obama's team took two years to negotiate the treaty. (Although he may be smart enough to avoid that given that it would just remind everyone he tore up that hard won treaty -- a treaty allies were on board with, unlike his criminal war.)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/majority-backs-trump-impeachment-even-one-in-five-of-his-own-voters/
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22-strength-in-numbers-verasight-impeachment-polling
That net +18 verdict puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974 more on that comparison below. The toplines and crosstabs for this poll can be found on the Strength In Numbers website.l
ShepKat
(551 posts)You're givin' me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons
And if you say something that you might even mean
It's hard to even fathom which parts I should believe
'Cause you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons
Katinfl
(901 posts)He didnt do half of what trump has done. Watergate is a walk in the park compared to trumps corruption.
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NNadir
(38,628 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,771 posts)Which....if Dems do take the House...despite Trump's attempts to steal it, they will hopefully start hearings.
I think far fewer of Republicans will fall for that victim mentality again.
Progressive dog
(7,624 posts)along with lots of evidence to prove them the beyond a reasonable doubt.
whopis01
(3,936 posts)is that you have to dig through a pile of reasons to impeach him in order to find the one you want.
It is like searching for a reason-to-impeach in a reason-to-impeach-stack.
tavernier
(14,531 posts)Oh, look
theres one! And Ill be, theres another one. And wait
is that six more? Sixteen?? Oh dear. Looks like a pit full of squirmy hissing vipers. Oh my goodness, what is that huge crawly thing? Its screaming!
Actually not as hard to find as I thought. But be careful
they all bite!
rubbersole
(11,289 posts)They'll find somebody who can translate it from Russian.
kairos12
(13,729 posts)Mblaze
(1,109 posts)That which is smothering us like an alien insectoid.
Emile
(43,450 posts)have to impeach him.
liberalla
(11,244 posts)Kablooie
(19,125 posts)And it has had no effect on anything.
Impeaching him has no value unless he is convicted and there is no chance of that ever happening with 80% of republicans always supporting him.
BigMin28
(1,878 posts)Any day. I'm sure he will have committed an impeachable offense. For all the world to see.
KPN
(17,535 posts)we need is a dart board.
a reason .. too much!
C Moon
(13,764 posts)Its perplexing. But I guess its understandable when I consider that they have one news source.
Beartracks
(14,673 posts)BidenRocks
(3,548 posts)Crimes against Humanity
TalenaGor
(1,236 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,621 posts)just not CONVICTED by Congress, thanks to...Republicans.
Emile
(43,450 posts)DFW
(60,501 posts)You usually shouldn´t have to look very long.
Picaro
(2,442 posts)Vandalizing the White House. Murder on the high seas. Incredible financial malfeasance.
Endless violations of the constitution.
No one has to look for a reason to impeach. The orange shitgibbon gives us new reasons every day.