Donald Trump warned Republican members of Congress on Tuesday that if they don’t win in this year’s midterms, then he will “get impeached.”

“You got to win the midterms because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be – I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached,” the president said.

Trump was impeached two times during his first term. In 2019, he was impeached on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for allegedly pressuring Ukraine’s president to interfere in the 2020 election. The second impeachment came during his final days in office after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with lawmakers charging him with incitement of insurrection. Trump was acquitted in the Senate both times.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      I mean, why does anyone think impeachment means anything? He’s already been impeached twice in his first term. Didn’t change his behavior in the slightest, because the Senate refused to convict and the next President refused to prosecute him for his crimes while in office.

      “Oh no! The House will do another Kabuki Theater in between rubber stamping all my demands for an increased police state. How horrible!”

      What a fucking joke.

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    I don’t believe the democrats have enough of a spine to do that. I would expect them to instead say, “Oh, well he can’t be president again, so no point in that when it can cost us our real constituents, the corporations that bribe us to do nothing.”

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        Yeah, but even if democrats had 2/3+, enough will cave to make it fail again. I have no hope or trust in them. I’d like them to, and it would be great if it worked, but I have no hopes.

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    “Ya’ll nazis better rig some elections or else the grift ends and the good christofascist times are over”

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      technically, he committed no crime, so even if impeach and removed, he will just get to retire with unimaginable wealth and influence

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    I prefer conviction and removal beyond impeachment so any additional criminal proceedings and continue and place him behind bars.

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    Donald Trump warned Republican members of Congress on Tuesday that if they don’t win in this year’s midterms, then he will “get impeached.”

    He’s not wrong.

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    Truth, but unless there are 60 votes in the Senate, nothing will happen and unless there are 67 votes in the Senate, it will be the same as the last 2 times.

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    Yes, and if they find some way to win he will probably take his life out in a bunker or something like that in a few more years.