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In reply to the discussion: BTRTN: The Real Reason to Impeach Donald Trump [View all]louis c
(8,652 posts)"All the savvy strategists like Nancy Pelosi think that impeaching Donald Trump is a bad political move. Sure, they say, you could probably pass the motion to impeach Trump in the House, but all that does is trigger a trial in the Senate to determine whether Trump is removed from office. And there, the shrewd pols opine, you will never get seventeen Republicans to vote against Trump... "
If all the Democrats in the Senate (45 plus King and Sanders for a total of 47) vote to convict, you need 20 Republican Senators, not just "Seventeen". Once I read that, I knew the opinion of the person writing the article was ill-informed. If the writer ( this is no reflection on the DU poster) doesn't know the fundamental rules on impeachment and conviction, the rest of his opinion doesn't mean shit to me.