Will the GOP impeach Trump at the first Opportunity?

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

The GOP would never impeach Trump.

They have nothing besides Trump.

Think about it........

Who are they going to put up, Ryan? Rofl

Trump literally saved that party from obscurity and the dustbins of history. The Dems had them whupped.

McCain / Ryan

[Fugus]

I doubt they would at the first opportunity as they have a goldmine of opportunity with him as is.

The man is already the most dislike candidate to ever take office lying about a mandate he doesn't have and all and all this while being very easy to manipulate.

They can take this man and talk him into passing some of the most fucked up bills they have wanted to get for years which would be political suicide for them to pass otherwise with all the attention being on Trump for passing the bill even if he wasn't the one who wanted or introduced it.

Then the more fucked up shit he passes selling out the people with shit bills he was talked into passing, the more he is hated. Then when the have had enough, THEN the republicans use Article 4 of the 25th Amendment and remove him declaring him unfit and would be praised for it with their ratings getting a tick up for getting rid of him while they still managed to get all the fucked up bills passed which they have no intentions of ever removing and fighting others from removing while Trump got the blame for all of it.

No, they won't get rid of him until that point I would think as he is the golden scapegoat of their dreams at this point. With him they can try and gut medicaid, medicare, and social security and all the media would focus on him for removing it and not the republican party. From a logical standpoint, the only way they would remove him before that point is if he goes off the deep end too early and tries the fucked up shit that would destroy them anyways like trying to default on the national debt which would destroy them regardless as it would destroy the nations economy as a whole and their donors with it.

[Caolela]

You have your Presidents wrong, it was Nixon that probably would have been impeached rather than Reagan. Reagan was one of the most popular Presidents ever and one of the few in the last 40 years that didn't have impeachment talk.

Trump being impeached is incredibly unlikely though so don't get your hopes too high for that. It takes a majority vote in the House, and then 2/3 in the Senate...and both are Republican controlled. It would take something truly insanely horrible for that many Republicans in Congress to vote to impeach a sitting Republican President. The bar for that would be really, really, high. It would have to be something really terrible, verifiable, and undeniable.

There is no "probably" about Nixon being impeached. He certainly would have been because he lost GOP support (due to public outrage) after he refused to provide the tapes. But that was when there was still some accountability and the media still did their jobs as watchdogs instead of being stenographers and propagandists for the gov't and corporations.

Reagan/Bush should have been impeached over Iran-Contra et al, but they got away with it. There was indeed impeachment talk then, which conveniently got redirected to others such as Oliver North and Adm. Poindexter.

[Alydael]

McCain / Ryan

Exactly! They really should be working with Trump to try and rebuild that party into something relevant. That won't happen with Mc Cain or Ryan in charge of anything.

Everytime i see Ryan, I think about the time he debated Biden (when he VP candidate). Biden totally crushed him.

What was worst is Biden was lying and totally inaccurate throughout the whole thing. Little Paulie Ryan was too timid to even call him on one of his lies. By the end of the debate, Biden realized how totally whipped Ryan was and was just making up facts to mock him. I don't even think Ryan realized what was happening.

Next time I see Ryan, the pubs were putting him into leadership positions......

It was proof perfect that they really had no one else and no future.

[Gsara]

You literally linked a wikipedia article saying that he was impeached.

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This isn't true. He WAS impeached, he was just acquitted of charges. Impeached doesn't mean 'found guilty.'

Yeah and a couple of lines later is says he was acquitted by the senate meaning it doesnt matter that one part of congress impeached. It takes both to actually matter or mean anything.

[Masark]

Yeah and a couple of lines later is says he was acquitted by the senate meaning it doesnt matter that one part of congress impeached. It takes both to actually matter or mean anything.

You are not understanding.

Clinton was impeached. He was not convicted.

An impeachment is the equivalent to an indictment. The House basically acts like a really big grand jury.

Then if it that goes through, it goes to trial, with the Senate acting like judge and jury.

You can be indicted and then acquitted at trial. That does not change the fact that you were indicted.

[GodEmperor]

Lol what nope.

[Toosdey]

Hope not. Pence would be far worse to have as pres.

[Ghostpanther]

Only if he does something which is deserving of impeachment. :P Not agreeing with a President's policies or his manners is not one of them.

[Fugus]

Only if he does something which is deserving of impeachment. :P Not agreeing with a President's policies or his manners is not one of them.

I think he will have to do something far more than just deserving of impeachment. Since Trump has paid off McConnel having his wife as Secretary of Transportation, McConnel will block most attempts short of extremes doubly so with the GOP running things. When it comes to just deserving of impeachment, he will probably have that done within his first day in office trying to have his kids run his company while listening to meetings, planning meetings in his own companies or trying to help his kids setup meetings with foreign governments trying to help them handle issues with it.

Some of the stuff he has already done since the elections would already be worthy if he were already president and I doubt he will stop them when he gets in.

With what Nixon did to get the impeachment hearings started, with what Bill did to get the impeachments started, Trump will blow past them with ease and will probably be ignored.

[Spectral]

Anyone that actually believes he'll be impeached soon should head over to PaddyPower and bet on it at the 4/1 odds that are currently on offer. Not doing so would indicate either a rather emphatic dislike of taking the easy money or that the rhetoric is just for funsies.

[xindralol]

I don't doubt there will be plenty of people looking to impeach Trump but I don't think any will lead to actual impeachment proceedings in Congress.

[Deleted]

No, of course not.

Now they got at least some party members in power. Plus, the alternative would be a democratic president, which they really don't want over Trump.

[PACOX]

No, the GOP is very good at redirection. They'll use Trump as their fall guy when deemed necessary. The only difference between Trump and Obama to them is party affiliation so they push and pull him, instead of just push.

[Shadowferal]

No, of course not.

Now they got at least some party members in power. Plus, the alternative would be a democratic president, which they really don't want over Trump.

No. The alternative would be Pence. And for some reason that seems to be a scarier option.

Still, if Trump insists on "Buy American" he's not going to have an easy time of it since most are in the pockets of multinational corporations.