colfax_m
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Abuse of power is indeed a generic term. That’s why the founders entrusted the Congress to determine what abuse is impeachable and what isn’t.Again, you’re thinking of high crime and misdemeanor as a common use. That’s not how the forefathers knew that language.What Trump was accused of doing was precisely what our founding fathers considered impeachable. High crimes had a specific definition and referred to crimes committed only by high officials, such as using the government to pursue personal benefit like winning re-election.What is an impeachable offense is up to Congress and no one else, including Alan Dershowitz.That is total gibberish.Fraud on the court to spy on a campaign is TREASON as is the illegal use of impeachment powers without a crime. WOW you fuck tards will justify anything to obtain power... We need to string these bastards up on gallows.So again, how does it overthrow the president?it lead to three years of continuous bull shit and lies from your leftists that brought us the shciff shamHow does “spygate” result in the president being overthrown?and you're basing your assumption on all that has transpired from the Russian spy gate against the president.I hope so since there was an apparent conspiracy, but I think it unlikely. My guess is Trump has been whispered to, that should he allow high level O cabinet members be prosecuted, he and his will be prosecuted once out of office. I believe Pelosi and Harris have publicly stated Trump has committed illegal offenses.Means nothing. Another sacrificial lamb to appease the masses.
Do you think it goes higher and do others fall?
The coupe to overthrow his administration.
Impeachment?
Not a coup. Thats a legal constitutional process.
“Impeachment powers” is a nonsensical meaningless phrase.
Tell me again how Trump gets overthrown? Because you still haven’t described how that happens.
The commies impeach Trump. If the MSM could apply enough pressure, some Republicans in the Senate (like Romney) vote to have him removed from office. If there are enough back-stabbing Republicans willing to vote with the Democrats, Trump is removed, thus the election is overthrown.
There’s a pretty big difference between removal by impeachment and removal by coup, wouldn’t you say?
Just to nit-pick the language a second. The election isn’t overthrown. The election happened, Trump is and always will be the winner. He’s just removed from office by impeachment.
It would have been a coup because he would have been removed with no impeachable offenses and no crimes committed. In other words, removed for no other reason other than to overthrow his presidency.
Admitted leftist Democrat and constitutional scholar Allen Dershowitz even came to testify against the Democrats because what they were doing was indeed un-constitutional. You don't impeach a president with such bogus charges simply because you don't like him. Now they sparked an impeachment war that will last God knows how many generations. If Biden magically wins this election and the Republicans take leadership of the House, he will be impeached. Mark my words on this.
So no, it would not be a coup because it would follow the proscribed constitutional process.
Ignoring the Constitution and all that was debated back during our founding may work for you, but if your opinion is an impeachable offense is anything the Congress decides on, I don't want to hear one peep out of you if Biden gets in and the Republicans are able to impeach him by what they "feel" an impeachable offenses is. Remember, your side drew first blood.
I’ll pass your concern of Republicans using impeachment to Newt Gingrich and the 105th Congress.
President Trump did nothing wrong. Clinton committed a felony, which to my understanding is a higher crime than a misdemeanor as outlined in the Constitution.
Your definition of wrong is not the same as our founders.
Clinton was acquitted, so your definition of a higher crime does not match with what the Senate considered applicable to impeachment.
Two strikes!
So was Trump and any other President. I'm not talking about the Senate, I'm talking about the House. The Constitution reads high crimes and misdemeanors. A proven felony is higher than a misdemeanor, therefore the Senate didn't do their job. They sided with their own as the Democrats in the House did when it was clearly an impeachable offense by any definition of the word.
It specifically referred to abuses of power. So as you can see, it wasn’t Democrats that drew blood first. It was the house in 1998.
Oh please. Abuse of power is a generic term that can be applied to any President and subjective at the least, it's just that the past House leaderships had some dignity. The Republicans impeached Clinton for committing a felony. A felony is a felony just like our founders intended. They didn't mean it any other way.
The founders had no intention of defining impeachment in terms of US criminal code, which you continually ignore by pointing to Clinton’s “felony” (which he was never convicted of).
In terms of impeachment, Trump’s crime was is far more relevant than Clinton’s given it was misuse of the unique and great power entrusted to the president. Clinton lied to a grand jury. Trump is betraying the nation.