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orangecrush

(19,546 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:27 PM Feb 2017

Time to talk Trump impeachment: Jason Sattler, USA Today

"At the Constitutional Convention, James Madison imagined impeachment as a relief from a chief executive who “might lose his capacity after his appointment. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
President Trump might have won Madison’s Triple Crown — in his first few weeks.
This is no exaggeration. The latest but far from only example is the Washington Post report that the White House, having failed to get the FBI director and deputy director to publicly rebut reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russian intelligence operatives before the 2016 election, then enlisted Congress and the intelligence community to knock down stories about the alleged connections.
And the goon squad attempting to limit the president’s PR damage reportedly includes the man Trump picked to lead the CIA and the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees, who were Trump transition advisers and now are the two men most responsible for investigating Trump’s Russia ties."

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/98263054/




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Time to talk Trump impeachment: Jason Sattler, USA Today (Original Post) orangecrush Feb 2017 OP
Any talk of impeachment is encouraged Kimchijeon Feb 2017 #1
Raise so much hell orangecrush Feb 2017 #2
The media needs to continue to hammer this home. DK504 Feb 2017 #3
I think we can count on that orangecrush Feb 2017 #4
"Peculation" is a new word for me. Louis1895 Feb 2017 #5

Kimchijeon

(1,606 posts)
1. Any talk of impeachment is encouraged
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:32 PM
Feb 2017

There's so many things that could be used, if only it were possible. I am doubtful it will come to fruition but we can hope.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
3. The media needs to continue to hammer this home.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:36 PM
Feb 2017

They need to talk about all the laws he has broken and schemes he is still involved with.

orangecrush

(19,546 posts)
4. I think we can count on that
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:39 PM
Feb 2017

After he excluded half the major media from the white house press gaggle.

Louis1895

(768 posts)
5. "Peculation" is a new word for me.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:55 PM
Feb 2017

I guess that makes "45" a peculator. Maybe there is a shorter term than that?

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