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Originally Posted by zeek
He's at least guilty of obstructing justice, violating the US Constitution separation of powers and the emoluments clause. He makes Nixon's crimes look small time.
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If he is guilty of those things there should be a closed door hearing, let the house and senate see the evidence. The House now has a very solid Democratic majority and surely a couple of Republicans would also vote for impeachment if there was evidence sufficient to convict. After this last election the Republicans would have to realize that the only way to avoid being destroyed in 2 years is to support impeachment in such a case. I am all for impeaching him if you have solid evidence of a crime. I also believe that impeachment is the only first step. You can't have a sitting president also being tried in a criminal court. Impeach him, then let him defend himself.
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Originally Posted by zeek
I don't like Trump. He's hurting and endangering the country. He encourages White Supremacists. They have grown stronger under his nurturing. I feel it's a civic duty to protest against him.
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Great. Well human history does not progress in a straight line. If you are absolutely, 100% correct about him, then the benefit of his administration is twofold
1. Motivated the vote
2. Referendum on the immigration issue and the immigrants clearly won.
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Originally Posted by zeek
He didn't lock up Hillary Clinton.
His Trumpcare "better-than-Obamacare" plan doesn't exist. He promised to abolish Trumpcare. Hasn't happened.
Where' his trillion dollar infrastructure reconstruction? Where's his wall?
He promised he wouldn't take vacations. 
He promised a 4 percent economic growth rate each year. It didn't happen in 2017.
He said he would establish a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Didn't happen. He said he'd raise taxes on the rich including himself.
As a candidate, Trump promised to raise taxes on the rich; as president, he promised tax changes that at a minimum wouldn’t benefit the rich.
Trump promised to break up America’s largest banks by reinstated old Glass-Steagall regulations that prevented financial conglomerates from operating in multiple lines of business.
Trump promised price controls on prescription drugs.
Trump promised to “take the oil” from Iraq to reduce the financial burden of US military policy.
Trump promised many times that he would release his tax returns and promised to put his wealth into a blind trust.
Trump vowed rollback of climate change regulations but said he was committed to upholding clean air and clean water goals. Clean air and water enforcement by EPA has moved in just the opposite direction. |
I think this last election was an overwhelming victory for the Democrats. The voters are speaking. If we think of the collective wisdom the voters made it clear they were not going to let Hillary Clinton be elected and now they are not going to allow Trump to run the country either.
In addition they have made it clear how they feel about immigration and they realize for the first time that their vote does matter and they need to become involved.