Impeachment: President Trump told House Republicans at a party retreat that they must retain control of the chamber in the midterm elections, saying he expected to face a third impeachment if Democrats retake the majority. “They’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ll get impeached.” He warned about the history of midterms going against the party that holds the White House and said trumpeting his administration’s policies was a “road map to victory.”
As we have seen in the past, impeachment is meaningless if we can’t get a proper trial in the Senate. And it would take one hell of an election night for the Dems to get enough seats in the Senate to possibly remove Trump from office.
As much as I want Trump to face consequences for his actions, I’m not holding my breath.
MOARbid1@piefed.social 1 day ago
How do we expel his entire cabinet? It’s not just Trump, we’ve got to dig out the roots and salt the soil.
garth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The Democrats win a majority in the House and appoint a half-decent Speaker, then impeach and remove both Trump and Vance. The Speaker of the House then becomes the President and they can appoint whole new cabinet.
If all the Dems can do is remove Trump then we get President Vance, and all the cabinet positions stay the same.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If there’s any hope of this, they need to excise the Schumer tumor first. Corporate Democrats have no will to fight because big money does not want things to change.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They need a majority in house and senate to impeach and convict. Conviction is how Trump is removed, impeachment just means he did enough to investigate any wrongdoing.
solrize@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
I’d expect Trump’s 3rd and 4th impeachments to go like the first two, i.e. he stays in office. Also, it would be very hard to find charges against Vance as VP.
If Trump did somehow get removed, Vance would take over as President, and it would take him a while to do enough bad stuff to get impeached and removed. And by then, he would likely have gotten his own VP confirmed, who would then inherit the office from Vance. So all this stuff about removing Trump and making things good again is wishful thinking.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Monica Lewinsky as Speaker. Because nothing matters anymore unless you do it with hyperbole.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Once you get rid of him it’s much easier to make the Domino’s fall