Trouble is , the Congress is not a Court of Law. They are trying to impeach a president. As a v**er I have a right to see the evidence. This is not a grand jury. There are no rules set in stone. However;there are precedents that have been established. Not only for three other Presidents but numerous Fed. Judges. Never has the procedure been done like this. We know why. They have no crime.
greenmountaineer wrote:
Well, so far back as I can remember, all Presidents have been elected. I don't remember Herbert Hoover's administration as I was only 11 months old when he left office, but I remember all the ones since, so I probably recall some that most of you have only read about in history books. Now what really makes America great is not a President, though they sometimes help. What makes America great is a 240 year old piece of parchment and the words written on it. And when the guys who wrote those words were putting all their ducks in a row, they wondered what would happen if someday a guy got elected who turned out to be a bad dude? So they put a method onto that parchment by which the people's representatives could investigate possible "crimes and misdemeanors" and if they found evidence, they could bring that evidence to the Senate, and the Senators would be a sort of jury and decide if the crimes or misdemeanors were serious enough to remove the President from office. President Andrew Johnson was impeached in the late 1860's, but the Senate did not convict him and so he stayed in office. Dick Nixon was going to be impeached, but when the Republican Senators told him that they would convict him, he resigned. Bill Clinton got impeached for lying about a "blow job." The Senate did not convict him. So now it may be Trump's turn to face the charges of ??? probably of Abusing Power. Maybe of mis appropriation of funds for using money that Congress had v**ed for other things to build a wall. I don't know what they will do, for right now they are working like a grand jury and those hearings are never public. But the system is working. Presidents are NOT kings. Their job is to enforce the laws passed by Congress. We've let too many of them act like kings since at least 1950, and Trump seems a bit more king-like than most I can recall. So maybe it is time for Congress to wake up, take back the powers they used to have and make America great again by following that 240 year old parchment, the Constitution of the United States.
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