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applegrove

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Thu Nov 3, 2022, 02:21 PM Nov 2022

Trump Threatens to 'Impeach' Mitch McConnell

Trump Threatens to ‘Impeach’ Mitch McConnell

November 3, 2022 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/03/trump-threatens-to-impeach-mitch-mcconnell/

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“Donald Trump said that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should be impeached if he backs a plan for the debt ceiling to be eliminated over fears that House Republicans could cause the U.S. to default on the nation’s credit,” The Hill reports.

“Members of the Senate and House cannot be impeached, though both chambers can remove a lawmaker with a two-thirds vote. The president is not involved in that process.”

While that’s not going to happen, lawmakers are bracing for a bruising fight over the debt ceiling — a prospect that’s “alarming administration officials, Democrats in Congress and some investors who fear a stalemate that could roil financial markets at a precarious time for the global economy,” the New York Times reports.

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Trump Threatens to 'Impeach' Mitch McConnell (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2022 OP
It's the former guy in 3-D! Divert, Deflect, Dissemble gratuitous Nov 2022 #1
Donald Trump said something stupid. Must be a day ending in y. Ray Bruns Nov 2022 #2
I heard house republicans plan to make Trump the speaker Emile Nov 2022 #3
Four years 'on the job' and this idiot didn't learn a damn thing C_U_L8R Nov 2022 #4
Eat your own Republicans. Eat you own. Burp. LakeArenal Nov 2022 #5

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1. It's the former guy in 3-D! Divert, Deflect, Dissemble
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 02:22 PM
Nov 2022

I yearn for the day when our faultless bulldogs of the Fourth Estate figure that out at last.

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