Official Thread: The Impeachment of President Donald Trump

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SpokenTruth said:

I think it's a longer term gain that short term.  It sends a clear message that corruption, abuse of power and obstruction will not go unaddressed. That the oath of office still have meaning. That Congress has not abdicated the entirety of its balance of power to the executive branch. Accountability is still a virtue that warrants its protection from indifference.

You're far more optimistic about the motives and message it sends than I. If successful, it will send the message that a political party can remove the President who belongs to the opposing party simply for politically-driven reasons, and because they simply don't like him. You can argue the specifics of their "case" all you like, but the fact is they were throwing out the word 'impeachment' from day one of him being in office, long before any of the supposed reasons they've come up with existed. They enjoyed taunting that they were going to go for impeachment over Russian collusion. That was a dud, so they came up with something else. Does it not trouble you or send up any red flags that their reasoning for why he needs to be removed has changed over the months and years, and continues to slide around as this process unfolds? The best they have is "obstruction of justice", which was him defending himself over claims that ended up not being true. What a joke.