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In September, MS NOW wrote, “If Democrats win control of Congress next year, they’ll be faced with a familiar question: Should they impeach President Donald Trump?” Earlier this month, The Atlantic wrote, “Here’s Who Democrats Want to Impeach Next” — followed by a list of key Republican names. A few days ago, The Wall Street Journal wrote, “House Democrats are pushing for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s removal, with an impeachment vote likely next month.”
Democrats on impeachment are like the fictional Queen of Hearts from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” on “off with their heads” — impeach everybody; behead everyone.
Come on, Democrats. Surely there must be an issue of political and policy importance that’s more worthy than persecuting President Donald Trump.
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Democrats have been demanding the impeachment of Trump since the days before he was even inaugurated — before he was in the White House and in position to commit an impeachable crime.
In December, 2016, Vanity Fair ran with this headline: “Democrats Are Paving the Way to Impeach Donald Trump.”
Off with his head! He hadn’t yet sworn in as president.
In December, 2016, Politico reported this: “Five Democratic senators … unveiled a bill they plan to release next month that would require Donald Trump to divest assets that risk a conflict of interest … [and] also would symbolically deem any Trump violation of federal conflict-of-interest rules ‘a high crime or misdemeanor under the impeachment clause of the U.S. Constitution.’”
Off with his head! The five senators? Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ben Cardin, Chris Coons, Dick Durbin and Jeff Merkley. This was filed weeks before Trump officially became president.
In November, 2016, just days after the presidential election, the Global Anticorruption blog posted an analysis of legal scholar Lawrence Tribe’s take on Trump’s win — that is, that Congress should immediately prepare for impeachment proceedings. Why?
“Many legal scholars, including my colleague Larry Tribe, as well as a number of legal ethics experts, have argued (persuasively, in my views), that Donald Trump’s global business dealings may well put him in violation of [the Foreign Emoluments] Clause [of the U.S. Constitution],” Harvard Law professor Matthew Stephenson wrote.
Off with his head!
The post was dated November 29, 2016. Trump was inaugurated January 20, 2017.
Talk about premature.
It’s usually proper to wait until a crime has been committed before convicting a suspect. Law professors ought to know that.
Democrats ought to know that, too.
And chances are, they do.
But the fundraising potential of promising to impeach, impeach, impeach is too irresistible for leftist candidates who have little to offer America.
In late 2019, when impeachment was the Democrat Party’s midterm talking point, and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally endorsed an impeachment inquiry, Sen. Warren raked in one of her largest single-day campaign amounts. Then-presidential hopeful Joe Biden raised record amounts. Other Democrat presidential hopefuls saw their campaign donations surge, as well.
Impeachment has become the Democrat Party’s tried-and-true means of raising money.
Thing is: Republicans can win big on this point, too. When Democrats go low, MAGA donors go high.
In 2019, after Pelosi gave the thumbs-up to impeachment, Liz Harrington from the Republican National Committee, went on CBS News to talk about her party’s record near-overnight haul of campaign cash.
“What really put us over the top — the impeachment push, the baseless impeachment push by the Democrats — [it] really added to our total; $15 million dollars just in the last week, to give us this record-breaking $125 million figure,” she said.
Democrats don’t seem to learn.
“Will Trump be impeached? What could happen if Democrats win midterms,” The Times wrote.
Off with his head!
And watch as the money rolls in for Republicans, as more and more Americans grow weary of the Democrats’ political games.
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