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Impeach, or not? A poll on the current status.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by DaDakota, Sep 25, 2019.

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Would you vote to start impeachment proceedings based upon current information?

Poll closed Oct 2, 2019.
  1. Yes

    75 vote(s)
    77.3%
  2. No

    22 vote(s)
    22.7%
  1. MojoMan

    MojoMan Member

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    Nothing. Let them impeach Trump already, if they are really going to. Then we can see what happens when due process is respected when the matter is handed over to the Senate.
     
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    It's GQ, and though not generally known as a bastion of investigative journalism, this is a decent piece. Consider it as much as you would other "informative" articles routinely posted by other "moderate Democrats" from national review, legalinsurrection, and other news outlets that moderate Democrats frequent.

    How Trump Corrupted the American Presidency in Every Imaginable Way

    In the final stretch of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of corruption in our nation's capital. "I will Make Our Government Honest Again—believe me," he tweeted three weeks before Election Day. "But first, I'm going to have to #DrainTheSwamp in DC."

    To hear him and his circle tell the story, his approach to the presidency was purely virtuous. "From a business standpoint, is the presidency beneficial?" Trump’s son Eric asked, rhetorically, in a 2017 Forbes interview. "If you're talking about existing assets, they're doing amazing. If you're talking about as a whole, we've made sacrifices in order to allow him—and he's made sacrifices in order to allow him—to take the biggest office in the world."

    In mid-October of this year, Trump told reporters that leaving the business world for politics has cost him somewhere between $2 billion and $5 billion. There is no evidence that this math is accurate, and Bloomberg’s most recent estimate of his net worth, $3 billion, is actually up slightly from its 2015 estimate of $2.9 billion. Nevertheless, Trump says, it’s a price he is (hypothetically) happy to pay. “I don’t care,” he continued. “I’m doing this for the country. I’m doing it for the people.”

    As it turns out, the same guy who stiffed curtain vendors and cabinet makers, scammed students with the now-defunct Trump University, and engaged in fraudulent tax schemes took a similar tack with the presidency. Throughout his tenure in the White House, Trump has leveraged the powers of his office—and the trappings associated with occupying it—to enrich himself at every opportunity. His properties are now the destinations of choice for anyone seeking to curry his favor, and the American taxpayer is among his businesses’ most dependable sources of income. At the same time, he has learned to abuse those powers to shield himself from accountability for his wrongdoing and attacked, bullied, and fired enemies both real and imagined with the imprimatur of the United States government.

    During the Trump presidency, corruption has flourished in previously unthinkable ways, and at such a remarkable rate, that it's almost impossible to keep it all straight—here's what we know so far.
    ...

    Click the headline link for the rest of the article.

    This could also go in the "what has he accomplished" thread.
     
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    To add to this we live in a republic and the voters will get to decide even if the President is impeached. There is a reason why the Founders put the House up for election every two years so that the Representatives would be more accountable to the voters. The Founders didn't believe in direct democracy but still wanted accountability to voters. Congress is the elected representatives and should represent the will of the people. For all of those people who uphold the Electoral College and the idea that it is proper for a person to win Presidency without winning the popular vote yet decry impeachment as an undemocratic need to consider that both are Constitutional tools created for this Republic.
     
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  7. DaDakota

    DaDakota If you want to know, just ask!

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    Cartoons is all the Ignorant have left.

    DD
     
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    v.3 of this poll asks a different question
     
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