There’s no way the House GOP sees that as relevant, it’s not about the law or what’s just.
The whole point is to ‘normalise’ all the issues with Trump’s presidency so that the public just sees impeachment etc as a normal political process rather than a sign of something being seriously wrong.
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Clinton’s impeachment was over a blow job in office. Bush jr was over lies and a cover up that brought us into a never ending war. Totally the same thing.
I don’t remember Bush being impeached?
He was not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_efforts_to_impeach_presidents_of_the_United_States
There was an attempt, but no house vote to imprach ever happened.
Wow, an actual bOtH sIdEs person in the wild. I thought people like you were a myth.
This is depressing.
They don’t have to find a specific statute to charge him under, but they do have to present some sort of coherent accusation of wrongdoing to avoid looking quite so much like the absolute clowns they are.
They don’t care about looking like absolute clowns. They only care about appeasing Trump and MAGA base. Both say that Biden needs to be impeached. They don’t care why - just impeach him. If anyone says they look like clowns, they’ll just call those people “woke liberal elites working for Soros globalists” or “RINOs” (depending on whether they are Democrats or Republicans).
Then, if they lose their elections due to a blue wave, they’ll parrot Trump, claim voter fraud, and demand that they be installed into office because they won when you subtract all the “fraudulent” (read: Democratic) votes.
Normally I’d agree with everything you said, but the fact that they’re struggling with the impeachment process tells me they do need something more than just saying they don’t like him.
I paid attention to the legal side of things during Trump’s impeachments, so I’m quite sure “high crimes and misdemeanors” is open-ended and not limited to violating laws passed by Congress. It more or less means they can just make up a crime to fit the circumstances.
Why then are they struggling to find an accusation to charge him with? If you have another explanation, I’d love to hear it.
I really don’t seem to be able to accomplish even that. I mean, just look at this shit show.
Wait, what accused action? I thought they didn’t even have an accused action.
Being the second shooter on the grassy knoll.
We all know that was George Santos!!
So close, it was george soros
Pretty sure it was Bernard Montgomery Sanders.
It was JFK himself with a time machine. Read all about it in my latest book, “The truth came out when I went off my meds”
They cover this in an episode of the historical show, Red Dwarf.
Nah, i’ve seen that doco. He had to go back and kill himself because he got caught up in a mafia scandal and ended up getting jailed, as well as other actions that ended with the earth falling to nuclear war. He was shot at but because of complications the shot didn’t kill him, so he had to go back and finish the job for the betterment of humanity.
I’d read this book.
Finally! The mystery solved! Who was in the Book Depository? Who was behind the Grassy Knoll? The answer is: John F. Kennedy.
P sure bidens the guy who killed honest abe
His crime is that big fat D next to his name. Unforgivable!
Not only that, but he beat Trump in 2020. Beating Orange Jesus is heresy and the most illegal thing anyone could ever do!
Into a fine pulp, as I recall. Quite publicly.
I thought that was Lewinsky’s accused action!
Oh, wait, different big fat D.
But he did that in office.
He’s finally going to get what’s coming to him after his hand in the Jade Helm Massacre!
Let’s not forget his involvement in the Bowling Green massacre. So many lives needlessly lost.
Let’s not forget about him and Hilary personally putting out the hits on the Buttery Males with Ben Ghazi.
Well starting World War 2 seems pretty big to me.
Got some checks for loans that are maybe hinky. Maybe. And even then, it’s the sort of thing where literally everyone in Washington is equally guilty.
Got some checks for loans that are maybe hinky.
No, they don’t.
Literally the guy running the impeachment inquiry. Similar checks were revealed to have been written by and to Comer after he said that the checks proved Joe Biden did illegal things.
But for some reason Comer thinks his checks are fine but Biden’s are criminal.
The inquiry is because his son had a job, and they are generally suspicious because of that. And he said hi to his son on the phone once. There’s literally no accusation, they’re trying to find something to accuse him of.
Not trump though. All you need to do is ask him
I don’t know about you all but I’m never voting for Hunter Biden.
Well, I’ve been voting for Hunter Biden for years now.
The optimist in me wants to say: “yeah, you go girl!”
But the pessimist in me is saying: “cool, so if they’re so bad, who ARE you voting for?”
Out of the options, the lesser of two evils is easier to fight against.
Edit: I don’t actively support Biden. But between the guys who promise to either: A) have made it their purpose to impoverish and delegitimacize everyone but themselves, and the people that, B) are trying to do so without getting caught
I’ll go for the people that don’t want to get caught. They’re at least minimizing the damage they do to the world. 🙄
Extra edit for the dipshits that can’t read properly: I was saying that between the Bidens and the big orange blob and his fanatical cohorts, I’d rather have the Bidens. Y’all think I’m talking shit about the wrong person, and that reading comprehension (or lack thereof) is why I don’t actively support EITHER side because they’re BOTH full of fanatical retards.
I think the most important word in the original post is “Hunter”.
How many times have you voted for Hunter?
I love how you just read whatever you wanted to, and then wrote this scree like we give a fuck what you think, and you’re not even intelligent enough to catch the joke that’s literally one sentence long.
Where did the Hunter Biden hurt you?
Republicans: This guy is the oldest president in the history of the USA, what do you mean his son isn’t pulling the strings? That is how it works with all elder politicians!
But ya know, not trump, he’s young.
You’re only as old as women you… *retches* oh god. I couldn’t finish typing that.
He would also have to have actually done any of the accused actions.
No, if they have the votes they can do a sham impeachment for any reason they want. They can vote to impeach just because they don’t like his stupid ugly face. But I doubt they actually have the votes. This is just revenge for daring to impeach Trump. It won’t succeed but they get to do “investigations”. They hope that will hurt Biden next November.
History says that it won’t. See: The impeachment of Bill Clinton. For the young ones out there, President Clinton was relentlessly attacked by the Republicans. They claimed that he and Hillary killed a guy and also had crooked land deals. (Among other things.) They launched huge investigations which turned up nothing.
Nothing except that Bill was having an affair with an intern and lied about it once to Congress. Got him!
So they impeached him for lying to Congress, though to most of America it sounded like impeaching him for having an affair. Certainly, not a very moral thing to do, but not “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The impeachment passed the House but not the Senate.
The Republicans expected that impeaching President Clinton would neuter his support and they would rise to victory. Instead, the opposite happened. People are angry over the obvious political impeachment and gave the win to the Democrats.
I think that most of the Republicans realize that this will backfire on them. However, Trump is demanding that Biden be impeached and they are too cowardly to say no. So they are hoping against hope that they find something, ANYTHING to actually impeach Biden on while they rocket towards a repeat of Clinton’s impeachment minus the affair.
They hope that will hurt Biden next November.
Like when one badmouthes someone then publicly renounces but everyone will only remember the first part and not the second?
Print the accusation on the front page, print the retraction two weeks later on page 8.
“Well you see, the Dems did TWO sham impeachments so it’s only fair we get to do it too.”
To be impeached- wouldn’t one need to have done something worthy of impeachment?
Unfortunately not. The House can begin impeachment over anything they want, including things that are not even against the law, as long as they have the votes.
One of the articles of impeachment against Johnson was basically “this guy is an asshole”. The Senate didn’t vote on that article, and acquitted him otherwise.
So there is an argument that you can impeach a President for being an asshole, but it’s not entirely clear.
Should have put a spoiler alert lol. Ruining the drama :/ aha
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Did they just realize he wasn’t a part of the government?
Lol would be hilarious if this was referring to Hunter. “Oh wait, shit this guy’s not in the government? Why the fuck have we been talking about him for the last 4 years?!”
“Also, how many people died in Benghazi? Four? And we caught the guy who did it? And it wasn’t Hillary?”
Greene: “Because I wanted to introduce his penis photos into the Congressional record. I mean, look at this thing!” (Holds up a giant poster board sized zoom in on Hunter’s privates.)
Mullin is a piece of shit who couldn’t even handle himself with a bored union rep who was halfheartedly teasing him.
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I’m just surprised that anything has come out of his mouth that resembles any understanding of the law. As an Oklahoman, my bar is pretty much on the ground for our politicians.
Beginning to soften the blow of disappointment for their rabid base.
The plan is to make it appear that he gets off on a technicality, rather than them having no case from the beginning.
that’s embarrassing how does anyone vote for these people
Because the one party state rigged it to be this way. They make sure the Dems aren’t a meaningful improvement ever, to sow apathy.
I don’t think they actually need a valid reason for impeachment.
They could have impeached Obama for wearing his brown suit. Or Jaywalking when he went to the restaurant and put ketchup on his burger or whatever the heck that was about.
Right. High crimes and misdemeanors. With no definition for either.
To be fair it was Dijon mustard. The man was a monster.
Thank the lord that it wasn’t anchovies and pineapple on pizza.
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And also, presumably, because there were no crimes.
None that he committed, anyway.
What his adult kid may or may not have done isn’t the legal (or even moral) responsibility of the parents.
The best part is their Orange Leader is trying to get Courts (at the Supreme Court now) to rule that the President has some kind of ultimate immunity. This would of course put Presidents above the law and out of reach of even the Supreme Court. It would also of course make it so Biden could do whatever he wanted (not that he actually would) - negating their whole farce.
Its so stupid too, because that’s literally against the written word of the constitution. The damned thing literally says that the president is still liable under the rule of law even after being impeached and removed from office. These chucklefucks don’t give a single wet shit about the constitution, they’re just hoping their base is stupid enough to go along with the subversion.
I wouldn’t put it past the Republican judges to rule that only Trump specifically has immunity.
But since they put having power above party/country/the law, the chance they would put an aspiring dictator into power that wants to take the Supreme Courts power away, seems slim to nil.
Hmm, good point.
Exactly. Say the President has absolute immunity to do anything he wants. Joe Biden could then declare Trump Public Enemy #1 and have him imprisoned pending trial. Then all MAGA Republicans could be called Public Enemies 2 through however many and have them imprisoned. And doing this would be perfectly legal because the President is immune.
Of course, the President isn’t immune, Biden wouldn’t do this, and he’d be wrong if he did. Still, if we accept Trump’s assertion that the President can do anything he wants and it’s always legal, then they are opening the door for Biden to take any action he wants with no repercussions.
The Washington Times is a garbage conservative conspiracy generator. If we’re not linking to Newsmax or FoxNews, we shouldn’t be linking to it.
True that!
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They’re so gross. One doesn’t fail multiple fact checks by accident!
