Trump and impeachment

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Of course Donnie ought to be impeached. He should have been impeached within days of taking office for taking his oath in bad faith. The Mueller report is a digestifs to a veritable banquet of impeachable conduct.
The only reason he is still in office is that the Republican party is dominated by deplorable traitors.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

If you can't impeach someone who lies to the FBI & who has clearly tried to obstruct an investigation then you're saying a person should be above the law if he has enough power. Your entire constitution becomes toilet paper & your Republic meaningless, existing in name only.

Seems like a pretty accurate description of 21st century America.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

The third task is to get the Senate back, and you can expect the plutocrats who fully controlled American politics in the first two years of the ultra-plutocratic Trump administration to seek even more crushing control of American politics.  They have what counts in American politics most of the time -- campaign funds and support of corporate lobbyists who pull the strings on 'conservative' politicians.

The moderates: Ernst, SMC and Collins and Murkowski aren't moderates since Murkowski voted for Gorsuch and Collins voted for Kavanaugh.  They, along with Mitt Romney voted to block Trump's emergency declaration.

Aside from Romney, no one will remove Trump. Plus, Elaine Chao, McConnell's wife is working withing Transportation, and knows if Trump is removed, risk his pension

And whatever benefit he may gain from Russian oligarchs investing in Kentucky.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

The most prudent thing to do would be to start impeachment proceedings and let the chips fall. That’s what the report recommends. Basically, that he should be impeached for obstructing the investigation and continue to have claims of conspiracy, espionage, and corruption either handled by Congress or in civil court.

This.

The problem is any impeachment won't go anywhere with this GOP senate and will give him new ammunation to play to the victim of any angry left and the so called Deep State. And it will further divide the country. The best way to get rid of the orange clown is
 on 11/03/20.

That may be the only way well get rid of Trump, but what does it say about crime and corruption in our leaders if we do not hold him accountable? Without impeachment, the take-away for politicians is that you can get away with pretty much anything as long as your party is in power. With that, we will have achieved what the Framers feared the most and what Washington specifically warned against: despotism masquerading as democracy.

I think he needs to be impeached, if only to force the Republicans to publicly take a stand and demonstrate that the Democrats are willing to take a stand themselves.

It may turn out to be a poor tactical move, but if the Democrats allow Republicans to continually shape the conflict, they (and American democracy and freedom) will lose in the long run.

Impeaching Trump will force the Republicans to stand with the rule of the law and the Constitution or against it. And when they do vote in favor of dictatorship, we - the citizens of the United States - need to make sure that they are held to account for it, because the ratings-hungry mass media never will.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Once Said President Could Be Impeached for Not Complying with Congressional Oversight

In a video unearthed from December 1998 circulating on Twitter on Friday, the South Carolina legislator passionately states that Richard Nixon could have been impeached for failing to comply with subpoenas from Congress.

"The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury," Graham said two decades ago.

At the time, then-Representative Graham was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and subsequently served as a manager in the unsuccessful impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.

President Trump said earlier this week that he would not comply with Congressional attempts to question administration officials.