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Democrat says Trump is ‘stealing’ from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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As an outside observer - does impeaching do anything? I thought he'd got two of those under his belt already and it made no difference.
Impeachment is done in the House of Representatives and is similar to an indictment. After the House impeaches a government official a trial is held in the Senate. A conviction requires a two thirds vote in the Senate. If convicted the official is removed from office and may be barred from holding future office.
Trump has been impeached twice but neither trial has resulted in the 67 votes required for conviction in the Senate.
You have to impeach in order to remove from office. So far impeachment hasn't led to that, but it could.
the gop will never remove one of thier own office, they may virtue signalling by doing it in the house, but they made deals ahead of time knowing the senate will not convict.
It absolutely couldn't. Best estimates show dems gaining a couple seats in the midterms, and conviction requires 2/3 of the senate. There's no way 15+ of the GQP are gonna suddenly not be fascist bootlickers.
They're talking about the parliamentary process, not the political reality.
I was asking about the political reality.
That's the question that the entire world waits to have answered.
Congress is empowered by the constitution with tools to prevent the exact scenario of an out of control executive. The people currently leading congress seem to be spineless or part of the corruption, it's hard to tell the difference.
That being said, Trump is on the way out (the opinions troll farm bots not withstanding) and there are already former supporters who are starting to break off or to create distance between themselves and Trump. His public sentiment polling is deeply negative and his health is increasingly becoming harder to ignore.
There are people in congress who could potentially be serving terms (pending reelection) after Trump is gone and those people are starting to weigh drawing Trump's wrath vs having the stain of Trump follow them onwards in their career. You'll notice that there are not a lot of quotes about current events from Republican Senators or House Reps that are up for re-election in the mid-terms, everyone knows how deeply unpopular Trump is outside of his alt-right base (which, without moderates, cannot win elections) and they also know that he could literally do anything tomorrow (like try to invade Greenland) which would put them in a position of openly supporting obviously illegal actions* which isn't a good look to moderates from the party claiming to be the party of law and order.
*Greenland is owned by Denmark because of a Treaty with the US, in which the US received the US Virgin Islands. A treaty in the US is ratified by congress and becomes federal law. Everyone that isn't intentionally playing dumb, knows this. Trump's orders to draw up a plan to invade Greenland have been met with pushback from the military because it is so clearly against federal law.
The House has the power to impeach him...but only the Senate has the power to remove him. All the other times Democrats had control of the House, while Republicans controlled the Senate.