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In reply to the discussion: Why Are Democrats So Scared of Impeachment? [View all]Aristus
(65,985 posts)We all know Trump has committed crimes. Even his most demented supporters know he has, and they don't care. What we need to do is prove those crimes before we ever start impeachment proceedings in the House. Let the impeachment proceedings be a mere formality.
Prior to that, let's have months of hearings. Subpoena everyone. Investigate everyone Trump ever spoke to, or was even in the same room with. Get his tax records. Find every former employee of his whose NDA has expired, and get them under oath. Get every current member of his adminstration on the record and under oath. Ask everything. Leave no stone unturned. Then bring them back a month later and ask the same questions again. If their answers change by so much as a syllable, threaten them with perjury charges. Then offer them a deal, or even immunity for evidence of Trump's culpability in anything, no matter how petty. Jaywalking, doing 45 in a 25 zone, spitting in the subway. Get Trump under oath to answer those charges, then hit him with the big guns; tax records, giving classified info to the Russians, violation of the emoluments clause. Hammer him until he wants to die.
Sentence him 'to the pain'.
By that time, Election Day 2020 will be looming, and Trump will have this massive millstone around his fat ugly neck for the whole event.
If we win in 2020, we can turn ex-President Trump over to the Southern District of New York for skinning, rendering, and butchering.
If Trump wins, but we take the Senate, vote on impeachment before he has a chance to plan his inauguration. We'd need 2/3rds of the Senate to vote, and we won't have enough Democrats to bring it. But we'll have a mountain of evidence from the hearings. Any repuke who balks will have every skeleton in his closet paraded around in public. Drop a neutron bomb on anyone who protects Trump.
Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress: Start the hearings!