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Democrat Files 26 Impeachment Articles Against Trump Over War, ICE, Corruption (truthout.org)
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A House Democrat has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, calling him the “most impeachable president” in U.S. history and accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors ranging from his war on Iran to his schemes to enrich himself and his allies while in office. House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Steve Cohen, of Tennessee, introduced 26 impeachment articles on…

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[–] 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Honestly, I think things like this help with the midterms. Republicans are going to get hammered because of how massively unpopular the Iran War is (as well as Trump himself). Actions like this force Republican to publicly defend it, and let Democrats show that they're pushing to resolve things one way or another.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    let Democrats show that they're pushing to resolve things

    Let them pretend to be doing anything, you mean. They aren't doing anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    well they sure can't do it when they retake the house this November, it might actually pass!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's actually bad enough that even that wouldn't matter. They've "successfully" impeached him before and if you look around you can see all that accomplished! Like the following:

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    If I recall the issue there was gop controlled senate which dictates punishment for impeachment. So unless midterms turns senate blue then yeah nothing other than history saying agent orange was most impeached president ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    because of how massively unpopular the Iran War is

    I haven’t even read the articles but I’m going to take a guess and say this Demonrat only has qualms about the handling of this war and says nothing about how fucking disastrous it was starting it in the first place.

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