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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAcquittal 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
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. No trial no acquittal . . .
malaise
(267,820 posts)2. Good bumper sticker
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)3. Yea but No Collusion, No obstruction wasn't true either
But that is what stuck to the wall. It makes me absolutely sick and I dont see a silver lining in this anywhere yet, but Trump keeps proclaiming witch hunt and no one is arguing with it anymore.
malaise
(267,820 posts)4. The problem for them this time is Bill Clinton
Talk about irony
mitch96
(13,818 posts)5. I take great solace in the fact that he will forever be impeached in history
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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Different Drummer
(7,532 posts)6. This doofus seems to think "acquittal" is the same as "exoneration."