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In reply to the discussion: Wow! Scaramucci is sounding the alarm on Trump. [View all]JHB
(37,133 posts)43. He resigned so that he would not be impeached. If he had tried to stay...
...the House would have been impeached him and the Senate almost certainly would have voted to remove him because the hearings shifted public opinion so they couldn't ignore it.
He preferred to go down in history as the first US president to resign from office instead of the first to be removed.
And Ford lost the following election.
It's not a "but, then again" situation.
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The whistleblower stonewall is being widely reported. You don't have to care if you don't want to.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2019
#21
The bigger danger is that Trump's rating goes so low that he is out of office
grantcart
Sep 2019
#46
The GOP and tRump are already claiming the investigation is/was "a political sham."
Texin
Sep 2019
#27
Exactly. "The public" wasn't for impeaching Nixon until hearings produced a drumbeat
JHB
Sep 2019
#28
One very good reason she is quiet is that she is third in line to be president in the event Pence
Doitnow
Sep 2019
#26
In 2016 I saw an interview with Scaramucci arguing that Trump was totally different in real life.
Bleacher Creature
Sep 2019
#11
Yes, I DO realize that but to me, he added nothing to the information Seth provided.
Marie Marie
Sep 2019
#53
Impeaching Trump will NOT HELP him politically! It will tarnish him further - much further!
ElementaryPenguin
Sep 2019
#30