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malaise

(267,820 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 09:23 PM Feb 2020

Acquittal is not exoneration

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/opinions/trump-impeachment-acquitted-opinion-avlon/index.html

(CNN)Despite the Trump White House's insistence that the President has been vindicated and exonerated by the Senate vote to not remove him from office, acquittal does not mean exoneration in an impeachment trial.

Trump's acquittal in the Senate was always a foregone conclusion. No American president has been removed from office as a result of a Senate trial. In their wisdom, the founders placed the bar at an appropriately high two-thirds.
Nonetheless, impeachment will be in the first paragraph of Trump's obituary. It puts him in a permanent presidential hall of shame.
And unlike the impeachments of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, this was not about something obscure like violating the "tenure of office act" or lying under oath about an affair. Instead, it was about something the Founding Fathers feared: foreign interference in our elections -- and none of his defenses hold up to scrutiny when the founders' intent is examined.

Fuck you Don the Con!
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Acquittal is not exoneration (Original Post) malaise Feb 2020 OP
No trial no acquittal . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #1
Good bumper sticker malaise Feb 2020 #2
Yea but No Collusion, No obstruction wasn't true either Under The Radar Feb 2020 #3
The problem for them this time is Bill Clinton malaise Feb 2020 #4
I take great solace in the fact that he will forever be impeached in history mitch96 Feb 2020 #5
This doofus seems to think "acquittal" is the same as "exoneration." Different Drummer Feb 2020 #6

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
3. Yea but No Collusion, No obstruction wasn't true either
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 09:36 PM
Feb 2020

But that is what stuck to the wall. It makes me absolutely sick and I don’t see a silver lining in this anywhere yet, but Trump keeps proclaiming “witch hunt” and no one is arguing with it anymore.

mitch96

(13,818 posts)
5. I take great solace in the fact that he will forever be impeached in history
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 10:36 PM
Feb 2020

Not many remember the impeachment of Johnson in the 1860's but it's in the history books and to me that's all that counts....... Along with moving his ass out of the white house
Dump the turd Nov third!!!
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