Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Sunday predicted that Democrats will impeach Trump for a third time between his two presidencies if they take control of the House after the November midterm elections.
Jordan suggested in an interview on “Cats Roundtable,” the WABC 770 AM radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis, that Democrats will take the legislative branch’s oversight capability “and turn it into a weaponization of government.”
“They say they’re not going to, but we know they will –– they’ll do a third impeachment of President Trump,” Jordan told the host. “But that’s just part of it. They’re going to investigate the first family, they’re going to investigate cabinet secretaries.”
I’ve always thought that Gym Jordan was an expert in the obvious. What insight!
Oh great, because the last 2 did so much!
Literally everyone I knew thought impeachments automatically kicked you out of office until his first one, and it’s insane that they don’t do that.
Impeachment is analogous to Indictment in criminal law
Basically everything requires agreement between the house and the senate. The house impeaches, and the senate convicts, thereby agreeing with the house. If they disagree, it stops there just like any other legislation.
I feel like the big official sounding word of “impeachment” should be reserved for after the Senate convicts. Otherwise it’s just a meaningless gesture on behalf of the House.
I began searching to see how Bill Clinton was removed, then I realized the Senate acquitted him and his term naturally ended later that month. Andrew Johnson also wasn’t convicted.
This mechanism of removing the president from office has literally never worked before! The whole impeachment process is an overhyped nothing burger!
Edit: I should add that all three presidents had the majority of Senate vote to convict at least one of the impeachment charges, but they needed a 2/3rds supermajority because why not?
Clinton’s impeachment is why not. People forget that the blow job he lied about getting that he was impeached for wasn’t what he was being investigated for. The investigation was for a supposed shady land deal that turned out to be completely above board. They just kept desperately searching for anything they could because they knew they couldn’t win the next election.
The 2/3rds rule makes it hard to convict so that type of purely political move isn’t a normal function of congress.
Hes going to veto everything out of spite anyways. Better to publicly read his crimes… Weekly
It made MAGA jump through hoops in a panic, and the entire world was talking about Trump’s corruption. That’s not nothing.
And history will NEVER forget it.
Any time and effort they spend fighting impeachment is less time they spend fucking up everything else.
Yeah, but only because he’s a convicted felon
Does impeachment achieve anything, or have any consequences at all? Not really sure what the point is, seems to have no effect
I would have hoped that people would have looked any of this up by now. It’s trivial to do so.
But to save you even that much efffort: Impeachments happens in the House. It is a vote, and that means it largely happens along party lines. If sufficient votes are cast in the House to impeach, it goes to the Senate to vote for removal, which requires a two-thirds majority. It is extremely unlikely to happen, and so far when he was impeached, he was not removed by the Senate.
Does it do anything? Yes and no. It is a political process, not a criminal/judicial one, so some people can argue that it’s just politics, but also nobody has been impeached twice before. It’s also a matter of norms, so it is quite possible that Republicans will now impeach any Democrat president from here until our political system fails. So while impeachment definitely meant something in the past (although arguably even with Clinton’s impeachment, the impeachment itself was a political witch hunt), it is certainly meaning less and less as time goes by. It SHOULD mean something, but then again we shouldn’t be dealing with fascism, but here we are.
Does impeachment achieve anything, or have any consequences at all? Not really sure what the point is, seems to have no effect
Impeachment in the House is the first step to having a standing President removed from office. The second step (after the required first) is for the Senate to hold a trial. If 2/3rds of the Senators vote to convict, the President is removed.
What has occurred to trump so far is Step #1 two times without Step #2 being executed.
Worst take of the day
Why do you like performative pointless measures so much? What exactly do you hope to accomplish by impeaching the fucker a third time?
Why do you have the same talking points as the GOP And Russia?
Just sayin
I think you’re an AI, as I don’t think any human that stupid can figure out how to keep breathing.
Ad hominem attacks look good on you
Impeachment means nothing. Removal is where it’s at.
Removal of his head from his shoulders, and same for the rest of his administration. Fucking INSANE the word “treason” isn’t used more.
People get all pedantic about the exact legal definition of treason, forgetting that the word has a common understanding of betraying one’s country.
We don’t need to litigate the specifics, trump has done treason.
Impeachment itself means nothing. But they can open investigations into all sorts of stuff under the guise of impeachment preparation. They can bring everything to light and leak it all to the press. Done correctly, the whole first family can be dragged through the gutters forever.
the whole first family can be dragged through the gutters
Don’t tease like that.
Done correctly
Two little words doing some heavy lifting there.
Dems couldn’t “done correctly” a fuck in a brothel.
As if democrats are gonna do anything. They are worthless
Username checks out.
No shit, Gym
I sure hope it doesn’t end with just impeaching donnie, either.
All of his accomplices should be hounded with lawsuits and prison time for the rest of their miserable lives.
The Guiliani effect should be the bare minimum.
What is that?
melting in a sex toy shoppe parking lot
LOL, that entire performance, from fucking up the location, but then not wanting to admit the fuckup and having it anyway, all the way to him trying to, in real time, simply wish away the election results, because “the media”…
It was a perfect encapsulation of the donnie administration 1.0.
Slowly having your life, reputation and financial stability destroyed due to your support for Trump and his wacky schemes.
Ah, perfect. Yes. Well, I hope it is not all that slow.
Jim Jordan is certainly somebody who would be in prison right now if there was justice.
So true.
Yes. That’s the idea asshole.
Consequences for crimes.
Fuck around, find out.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I thought you dumbasses professed to be the “law and order” party? Guess that was just another big fucking lie like all your other claims…
The biggest bullshit is that legally speaking, he will get away with everything he did. the supreme court declared that everything the president does is legal. that was some major bullshit.
if what the president is doing now is “legal” then the new president can “legally” have the old president marched into a meat grinder.
“sorry bro, but it was an official act of the president, nothing we can do about it”
what Biden should have done when the supreme court decided that. immediately and illegally expand the supreme court or illegally arrest the conservative judges that voted for that. so the new supreme court would reverse that stupid decision.
Waste of time unless he’s removed.
Absolutely wrong but ok
If their wrong, what would be the actual impact of a third impeachment that won’t get though the Senate?
The answer is zero impact. He’s been impeached already, his reputation is already tarnished and unless they have realistic expectations of a Senate conviction, it’s pointless.
This is why I expect even a democratic win to be mostly pointless. Supreme Court says 2/3rds of Senate is the only body that can hold the executive branch accountable, so the branch is free to do anything it wants without repercussion so long as over a third of Senate says they are Republican.
Even more wrong, great work
No absolutely correct. Impeachment at this point is literally just virtue signalling. It’s bandied about by Democrats who want to seem like they’re doing something, but don’t want to use the actual tools they have to rein Trump in.
There’s zero chance Trump will be removed from office by an impeachment. Republicans are slaves to Trump. They won’t vote to convict him. There is literally no point in impeaching Trump beyond throwing red meat to the Democratic base.
If Democrats gain control of Congress, they need to be fully prepared to use the full power of the purse to stop the bastard. That includes shutting down the entire government if necessary. That includes denying funding to the military if necessary. That includes completely cutting off funding from ICE and Trump’s surveillance state. But a lot of these necessary actions are politically difficult for Democrats because they hurt the corporate donors that feed the party.
They like impeachment because it allows them to seem like they’re doing something without actually having to do anything. They can impeach Trump, and their donors will know that nothing concrete will actually come from it. A Democratic Congress can bring Trump to heel, but that will require a willingness to actually fight some very powerful and entrenched corporate interests. And that’s generally where Democrats perform the worst.
So no, it is in fact you that are absolutely wrong.
Historically it matters, not only to show that he was impeached for x actions but also who voted to keep him in. The cost of living is going to cause democrats to have to do something shortly, giving in to their corporate donors can only go so far with a president who’s intent is to cause as much damage and get as much money from taxpayers as possible. The Corporate/Politician relationship only continues to work if the people believe regardless that the politicians are still working for them. With the price of fuel and goods skyrocketing democrats are going to be forced to show they are trying, and I don’t mean a strongly worded email from Schumer.
People have become obsessed with identity politics in the age of social media and unless something tangible changes in the way of rising costs, this could shatter the worldview of a few people when they have to start paying $5 for a banana.
Just so, so, unbelievably eye-wateringly wrong
You sound exactly like the Nazis in the GOP
So there’s that
You’re a very silly person.
Fingers crossed! Let’s hope this time it sticks and there will be widespread convictions across the republican party and the Trump crime family.
Let’s hope this time it sticks
If by “sticks” you mean the Senate votes to remove… they won’t. There’s not sufficient votes. That’s the consequence of years of fascist propaganda leading to Republicans controlling enough of Congress to stop the needed votes.
Holy shit would they have a long list of charges at this point…
Democrats will take the legislative branch’s oversight capability “and turn it into a weaponization of government.”
Don’t forget to always accuse others of the shit you’re doing.
Third time’s a charm!
Not they the dems will bring articles of impeachment, but that he’ll actually be impeached.
Interesting.
Technically all that means is that the articles of impeachment pass the House.
Trump has been impeached twice already, the Republican controlled Senate refused to convict.
It troubles me how many people do not know this
Oh I know the difference. I don’t think he’ll actually be impeached, much less removed.
But what I meant was Gym J. Didnt say they’ll bring articles of impeachment. He said they’ll impeach. This means he thinks they’ll be able to.
I’m actually skeptical.
I couldn’t get further than this:
“And then they’ll also, I think, go after people in the private sector,” Jordan continued. “They’re going to go up for any business who, as an example, you got businesses who helped paper the inauguration, which happened every four years … [Democrats] are going to somehow say, ‘Oh, these businesses have done something wrong.'”
Reverse Victim and Offender.
When politicians say “people in the private sector” they’re not talking about us. They’re talking about their big donors.
So… who is supposed to give a fuck about this again? Does Gym think the people that voted for him care about protecting his big donors?
