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'Impeachable': Explosive report on Trump's massive crypto 'scandal' stuns observers (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He's been impeached twice tbf

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 8 points 2 months 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 6 points 2 months 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.