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In reply to the discussion: Republicans argue that Democrats have been trying to impeach Donald Trump since Day One [View all]soldierant
(6,847 posts)[T]heres some truth to [Kevin] McCarthys claim that some people have long thought Trump should be impeached, and Ukraine is just the most salient issue on which to launch an impeachment. I, for one, have written many times that Trump has committed impeachable offenses and should never have been elected in the first place. Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib memorably said in January, Were going to impeach the motherfucker!
But conservatives draw the wrong inference from this fact. They say that since critics of the president wanted Trump to be impeached all along, the calls to impeach him over the Ukraine scandal cant be taken seriously.
In fact, the Ukraine scandal just proves that Trumps critics calling for impeachment were right all along.