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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump may not have colluded with Russia as President, But he did collude as a civilian candidate.
Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution.
Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of HONOR, Trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law...........
There is no mention of the term Presidential Privilege in the Constitution of the United States.
It just took me 15 minutes to read the Constitution from cover to cover. A little longer to understand it all but its not a hard read. Give it a try.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)orangecrush
(19,572 posts)pwb
(11,276 posts)Either way he is screwed. It is just hard to convict a sitting President. After is a different story, is my point.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)And no amount of qualifying by the media is going to make him NOT guilty.
mucifer
(23,550 posts)government. I see it as nothing less than treason. He does it every goddam day!
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)A particularly dangerous form of mental state and criminality. Cannot be accepted.
It is clear that civilian candidate Donald J. Trump committed crimes and should be held to account for when the crimes were committed.
This obviousness escapes so many. Thank you!
Hekate
(90,714 posts).
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)"or profit"
means he could no longer be CEO or a director of any Trump companies in the USA
Hadn't noticed that one about impeachment before.
Looking at the Manafort cases, they could clean him out financially too.
As the vise of justice squeezes him, they might want to consider suicide watch.
This could be as great a fall in prestige and fortune as any experienced ... and I won't feel a shred of sympathy.
pwb
(11,276 posts)Interpretation of the Constitution is a whole different ball game. But yea.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)pwb
(11,276 posts)Sounds like it should be part of the punishment. I am good with it.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Congress doesn't control and own every business in the US.
That's been tried elsewhere. It worked out very, very badly every time.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)The SEC for example can ban someone from serving on a board of directors.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Israel to the two russian goons visiting him in the Oval? Because of that, Israel may be truncating security information relevant to US interests. And it is possible other allies have decided trump cannot be trusted with classified data. That sounds to me like he's compromised the US's security.
Allegedly.