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20. Time to impeach

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Mon May 27, 2019, 11:51 AM

May 2019

... Trump has lied, given succor to our enemies, spilled state secrets and obstructed justice in plain sight.

If you cannot impeach this president for that now, what president can you impeach for anything, ever? Short of first-degree murder, what crime could some future president commit without being able to defend herself by pointing back to 2019, when Trump did worse and Congress only shrugged?

What’s on the line here, then, is bigger than Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi or even the 2020 election. What’s on the line here is the very rule of law, the DNA of America. ...

https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/may/27/pitts-madam-speaker-its-time-to-impeach/

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