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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is ONE thing that will get a special prosecutor & impeachment....
MASSIVE.
PUBLIC .
OUTCRY.
That means calling your reps, going to their offices during recesses, going to town halls, going to protests and marches if you can - DEMANDING a special prosecutor. Any or all of the above - SUSTAINED for at least a month.
If an independent investigation is conducted, we KNOW there will be impeachment. This dirtbag Trump is as dirty as dirty gets - dirtiest of the worst dirtbags and he WILL go down if the facts are known and our laws are enforced.
If there is ANYONE ON THIS PLANET who needs to be shown IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT OUR LAWS DO IN FACT APPLY TO EVERYONE INCLUDING HIM - it's Donald J. Trump.
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)Squinch
(50,773 posts)Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)Squinch
(50,773 posts)Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)Squinch
(50,773 posts)the marches.
No kidding!
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Steven Maurer
(455 posts)Republicans are used to outcry.
Only throwing Republicans out of office in 2018 will.
So get down to your local Democratic party and start planning now.
CousinIT
(9,151 posts)Impeachment is also extremely cumbersome. It takes a majority vote in the House, and a trial and two-thirds vote in the Senate, to convict and remove a sitting president. This high bar means that Republicans will have to join with Democrats on impeachment. That bipartisanship can be reached even in a Republican-controlled Congress but only, as we saw with President Nixon, if the American people demand it.
An overwhelming case
It was the enormous public outcry for congressional action, after President Nixon ordered the special prosecutor investigating him to be fired, that triggered the Nixon impeachment proceedings. Even though President Nixon won his 1972 election in a landslide (unlike Donald Trump), public opinion shifted as evidence of his misdeeds grew.
- See more at: http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/elizabeth-holtzman-trump-impeachment#sthash.nNVF9POx.dpuf
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)VOTE!!!
CousinIT
(9,151 posts)Beware though that gerrymandering and Trump's voter suppression-loving sphincter Kris Kobach may make it impossible for millions to vote and/or it will take 3-4 Dem votes to equal one Republican one due to gerrymandering.
This is why RAISING HELL on the phones, via email, at town halls, and protesting before election day is also important.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)When violent disobedience is the answer!
We are not sheep!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)They won't act unless we force them to.
NCDem777
(458 posts)Honestly, Dems need to actually stop worrying about trying to get Trump impeached. The GOP ain't gonna do it. And if we're being honest, the Dems won't either.
They know that if impeachment process even started, the Trumpkins would burn the country to the ground.
What we should do is actually get good candidates to run against him in 2020. And run on a message besides not being Trump. Didn't work last time.