Could Trump be impeached if he shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

[kentuck]

What if the Senate refused to convict ?

Would the Democrats still impeach?

Or would we have to wait until the next election for any justice?

Just a theoretical question.

[elleng]

1. 'High crimes and misdemeanors,'

so YES.

[WhiskeyWulf]

2. Trumpanzees would say he did it in self-defense. nt

[sakabatou]

3. Since Republicans are Trump's sycophants, they'd refuse to convict

The House... I don't know what they'd do.

[egduj]

4. Nancy would have to see how the "Stern Looka" and "Harshly worded lettera" played out

over the next half year before considering it.

[comradebillyboy]

5. Not wth a Republican Senae.

Yes he can be impeached, no Mitch and his accomplices won't vote to convict. So Trump stays and brags about being exonerated.

[msongs]

10. the house impeaches, the senate convicts or frees the impeached person nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. The answer would be "god told him to do it, so it's ok.

We live in extraordinary, depressing times

[dalton99a]

7. Senate Republicans would say the victim deserved it and declare him a hero, especially if he shot

the victim in the back

[dem4decades]

8. Trump would sign a Stand Your Ground executive order.

Mitch would agree.

Lindsay would demand the shot person be prosecuted for assault.

The Republican party today.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Only if he shot a GOP senator.

[JI7]

11. there wouldn't be justice until he is gone. even then it wouldn't be completely justice

but the most important thing is getting rid of him from public office.

[Cosmocat]

12. No

You would hace zero republican support and still have NP scared of her shadow on it.

[Hortensis]

13. He can only be removed if the Republican senate votes for it.

Let's get real. There are two scenarios in that case:

1. The nation knows he murdered someone, and the Republicans vote to remove him and Pence becomes president.

2. The RW swiftboating machine successfully convinces much of the nation Nancy Pelosi is the murderer, McConnell calls for investigation and prosecution, and "the worst full of passionate intensity" on both sides call for going straight to lynching.

The passionate right would be sure that she did it to protect Hillary's international pedophile ring, the left that "NP" did it for any of a number of the insults Hillary's successor as most powerful woman inherited. And, of course, "the best who lack all conviction," would be confused and disengage.

[kentuck]

14. And the murderer walks the street...

....because someone doesn't have the "skill" and/or backbone to do anything about it.

Not acceptable?

[Hortensis]

17. Oh, the rest of us are out here waiting for enough of

the disengaged to join us to do what needs to be done. The numbers are growing, but so damned slowly, ...

Didn't occur to me before, but Dorian stalled over the Bahamas is like an analogy for the summer doldrums of politics. Can't force people to pay attention when it's not time any more than you can move Dorian by poking it with a stick.

[kentuck]

19. Who's waiting on who?

Remind me again?

[Hortensis]

20. Don't imagine that the kind of people who could imagine

Nancy et all are scared for themselves and who've been demanding for months that we hurry and throw ourselves into McConnell's trap are somehow leaders of anything. Nancy et al are leading.

Most of those will no doubt gladly join the rest in supporting the kind of action they crave and can recognize as action. If it is of that sort.

But, Kentuck, don't fool yourself or be fooled: No matter what kind of action is taken, recognizable as such or too complex to understand and to infuriatingly slow to accept, some will advance new passionate reasons to continue opposing those who lead us. And some will become angry all over again and stumble into that trap full of people primed to believe nothing our elected leaders do will be right.

Every fool's heard of Sun Tzu's type of warfare, but very few wonder if they're the ones being defeated before they ever get to fight.

[kentuck]

21. Yes, we need 218 Democrats to impeach.

"McConnell's trap"?

Are you sure that is not part of someone's imagination?

"Murderer Wins Landslide!"

[LAS14]

15. Foirget impeachment. New York city cops would arrest him and...

... he'd be tried by a state court. No problem with 3 equal parts of the federal government.

[kentuck]

16. I think the law requires him to be out of office before he can be arrested?

Is that not correct?

[LisaL]

18. I believe that's for federal charges, not state charges.

[kentuck]

22. After he is out of office...

...state charges could be pressed.