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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear All, who want Twitler hauled off for treason, how do you plan to accomplish this?
It is an awesome idea, and I, personally, think he's guilty of treason, but wishing and action are two very different things.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Just about every option you can imagine will be extralegal -- including him serving out his whole term. You can stop hoping for a "the system worked" outcome.
My money is on the military placing him under house arrest and compelling him to sit still while the 25th Amendment is invoked. Yeah, that's basically a coup, but you really think he'd play nice and be harmless while impeachment proceedings dragged on for months?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Otherwise I think removal will drag out. However, being under investigation by the FBI and congressional committees will, hopefully, render him completely toothless, regarding legislation he wants to cram through.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)He'd have to be disconnected from the levers of power. Another flavor of coup, I'd say.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)He is, after all, a US citizen, and without a court order, or arrest, cannot be restrained or confined.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)To Congressional GOP, he is the key to their dreams of austerity. Until he is no longer useful to them or he gets too bored with hanging around the White House four days a week, he's going to stay right where he is.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Not saying it won't happen, just that I can't see how right now.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"Executive privilege" will be the reply but will it apply? Once the scandal is revealed by whoever sings first, the new John Dean, we'll see a repeat of Nixon, Trump resigns and pence pardons him. They will abuse their power to shore up their Fund-$$-amentalist Party.
But, remember, we have had FBI surveillance in place since July. The second FISA warrant was likely just a means of getting a far more difficult to challenge warrant, and the first one still prevails too. So, who knows what all we have in evidence already, but i'm sure it is enough to put a large cast of characters away. What they are likely trying to do right now to convict the Swiftboat Admiral, the person who directed fixing the election.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)just so he is out of our White House!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Think of the degree to which the Trump Dossier was confirmed by Comey. It is all over except the beheading.