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'Impeachable': Explosive report on Trump's massive crypto 'scandal' stuns observers (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 2 weeks ago (4 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 (2 children)

He's been impeached twice tbf

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 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/

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

And even then there wasn't enough integrity or courage to carry through with the next step and remove him from office, so the impeachments were ultimately just empty gestures.

And now we won't even get that.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well said.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oooh, new word! Thanks for "Sybarite."

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He could be impeached for making the oligarchs poorer.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

True, but I think he's too feckless and desperate for approval to do that. He's stupid and self-absorbed enough to move towards doing it, but I'm sure that all it takes is a few judicious words in his ear to make him once again chicken out.

The few exceptions appear to be things on which the oligarchs apparently stupidly agreed with him - like trying to head off Chinese AI development by cutting them off from western chips, which ended up being just the kickstart that the Chinese chip industry needed to ramp up their production to the point that China no longer needs foreign chips.

I can see how they might want to blame something like that on him, but I don't know if they'd stick their necks out that far, or succeed if they did.

But yeah - if there's any chance of him actually being punished for his many and egregious crimes, "no longer being useful to the oligarchs" would be it.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I had a nickel for every impeachable act by Trump...

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

You trying to bankrupt us???

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Throw it on the pile of endless crimes he will never be held accountable for

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

over a pile of crimes of US presidents that aren't held accountable for

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well no shit. Everyone who has been paying the slightest attention knows that his crypto fund is nothing but a front for bribes and money laundering. His fortune has been going up by a billion dollars that we know of every month every since he took office. We've known this has been going on for months, how is that such a shock?

Sadly however, if we ever took back every billion dollar he stole ever since he got into office we wouldn't even get close to cover for the damage he has caused.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am an observer and I am in no way stunned.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, there's no way anyone who's been paying attention could be stunned.

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's by design. The pot is getting hot but our frog legs are used to it.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And our republican controlled Congress will do nothing.

Republicans are complicit in treason.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking traitorous scum

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The whole population is complicit. Look around in the world: Nepal, Budapest, France, the people want to be heard. In the USA, it is a handful of people protesting. Armchair activists....

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

Trump’s cryptocurrency startup

Just when I thought crypto's reputation couldn't sink any lower

[–] Quexotic 6 points 2 weeks ago

J6, abuse of power, obstruction of Congress, Epstein... How is this going to lead to accountability?? 🤣😑🥲

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Zzzzzzz....

Release the Trump/Epstein files