Originally Posted by
Kathranis
I'm gonna repeat my earlier sentiments, he needs to be impeached.
That is how a sitting president is held accountable for criminal acts. Even if he's out of office in eight days. Even if they can't muster enough votes to remove him or pressure a resignation. Even if the process is delayed enough to make it purely symbolic. If this wasn't worthy of impeachment, what is?
Aside from all the good reasons like blocking him from holding office in the future, taking away certain benefits he would receive as a former president, and making him go down in history as the only twice-impeached president, it is a line-in-the-sand moment for our representatives.
Forcing this issue to a vote will clearly and definitively show us, and history, where Republican Congress members stand. Whether they will hold a megalomaniacal would-be despot to account for his crimes, or continue to shrug them off and look the other way to appease his base for political gain.
Frankly, there are about a dozen Senators including Cruz, Hawley, and Brooks who should outright be expelled from Congress, too.
Even if this is all a foregone conclusion, it is still the right thing to do.
The reality is that the GOP would benefit enormously by eliminating him from the field of candidates, but Senators and Representatives in deep red states and districts are still far too spineless to put their necks out and risk alienating his base, even if they've proven to be at best unreliable and at worst a liability (see: GA runoffs). If the votes could be taken anonymously, I suspect he would be removed easily.