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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I'm reasonably certain that at this point there's absolutely nothing that Trump could do that would actually be "impeachable" in anything other than a speculative and legalistic sense, since making it a reality would require courage, determination and integrity, and those qualities are in vanishingly short supply in a Congress comprised almost entirely of co-conspirators, sycophants, enablers, sybarites and cowards.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

He's been impeached twice tbf

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We need to get past this, everyone means convicted not just impeached.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Think you mean removed. The house votes to impeach and the Senate votes to remove after impeachment passes.

His felony convictions are a separate matter that he will never have consequences for.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Your confusion is exactly what I'm talking about.

There are two steps when removing the president:

  1. Congress can vote to impeach, with simple majority
  2. Senate holds an impeachment trial. They need 2/3s vote to find the president guilty of the charges (convict the president).

What everyone gets confused by is that twice congress found enough evidence to open a trial to remove Trump, but he was never convicted by the Senate/found guilty.

Here's an article that talks more about it - https://constitutionus.com/constitution/what-are-the-steps-of-the-impeachment-process/

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