If the impeachment process were to be successful, Trump would be removed from office. But as hearings in the Senate can last weeks, Trump will have left office by the time the case is concluded. So it can be deduced, the purpose of the impeachment is virtually impossible to fulfil by due process and timescales.
I understand that impeachment proceedings may disqualify from holding public office in the future. Now here's the nub.
It is seeming very likely that the motive(s) for the impeachment is to prevent Trump from holding any public office appointment at anytime in the future. Many are watching on blinded by hatred for Trump (understandable), but is this really being thought through?
This scenario makes me uncomfortable, and don’t think I’m a Trump supporter, he has qualities but IMO, totally unfit for the position he’s held for the last 4 years. That's my opinion.
The political institutions in DC, haven't recovered from the bloody nose they received in 2016 and seem utterly hell bent on preventing anyone from outside their clique running for office, ever again; especially Trump.
Yes he's rude, childish, offensive and not ‘presidential’ but, and here is the issue, people voted for him and that's how democracy works. It has its flaws, but it’s democracy.
Pelosi et al have fought tooth & nail for four years straight to disrupt Trump and his administration, yet their own shortcomings are repeatedly swept aside.
There was a media blackout and many showed very little interest in the Hunter Biden story that emerged prior to the election. That in itself is dangerous: if the story is untrue or ‘sexed up’ then that needs establishing with evidence; if it is true, then the public has a right to know about it and the level to which Jo Biden was involved.
It’s not too dissimilar to the UKs Brexit debate; the media saturated the airwaves with remain pundits trying to convince us that referendum voting was unsafe or we’d change our minds.
The Democrats are actively trying to suppress debate now, but sooner or later these questions will be asked. There is a whiff of the sword of Damocles here and there will be an aftermath that will need to be faced.
70 million Republican voters will not be too happy; the US will have their own equivalents of Soubry, Bercow, Grieve, et al and they will face a similar day of reckoning at the ballot box. Experienced politicians are making decisions based on emotions rather than logic. These are professional politicians!
Those UK politicians didn’t escape the electorate and neither, I believe will the ones in the US; as they attempt a reformation to the pre-Trump era.
What dumfounds me though is these folks have been in politics for decades and they are making such basic mistakes which may be terminal for them. They are insulting 70+ million people.
These people watched the Portland Federal Court get ransacked repeatedly last summer with very little kickback. There were businesses burned, police stations abandoned, lawlessness and looting enveloped whole neighbourhoods.
This was wrong. Statue toppling is wrong. There was no legitimacy for these actions.
To these people it must appear that only one side of the debate is permitted to be aired; then call people who question this ‘racist’ thus shutting it down. What will this result in? Resentment, frustration in a population that is feeling disillusioned.
So the big question is, What are the Democrats doing? They appear to be picking a fight they can’t win. Their actions now need reconciling with 70 million people who voted republican; many of whom are perfectly respectable and intelligent people.
The disconnect from the Hill to the electorate is quite astounding. I think they’re going quite mad.
