At some point, Trump’s supporters may well tire of a system rigged against them and they’ll attack their enemies.<\/p>\n
From Politico<\/a>: Donald Trump isn\u2019t even the Republican nominee yet. But his incendiary rhetoric, most notably about killing the families of terrorists and bringing back torture, has critics on the right and the left discussing the most extreme of countermeasures at an unusually early point in the race. At some point, Trump’s supporters may well tire of a system rigged against them and they’ll attack their enemies. From Politico: Donald Trump isn\u2019t even the Republican nominee yet. But his incendiary rhetoric, most notably about killing the families of … Continue reading
\n\u201cImpeachment\u201d is already on the lips of pundits, newspaper editorials, constitutional scholars, and even a few members of Congress. From the right, Washington attorney Bruce Fein puts the odds at 50\/50 that a President Trump commits impeachable offenses as president. Liberal Florida Rep. Alan Grayson says Trump\u2019s insistence on building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, if concrete was poured despite Congress\u2019s opposition, could lead down a path toward impeachment. Even the mainstream Republican head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently tossed out the I-word when discussing the civilian backlash if Trump\u2019s trade war with China led to higher prices on everyday items sold at WalMart and Target. On his radio show last month, Rush Limbaugh even put a very brisk timeline on it: \u201cThey\u2019ll be talking impeachment on day two, after the first Trump executive order,\u201d he said.
\nStory Continued Below
\nIt\u2019s not unusual for controversial presidents to be shadowed by talk of impeachment, once they\u2019ve been in office long enough to make people mad. But before he\u2019s elected? Before he\u2019s a nominee?
\nConstitutional experts of all political stripes say it\u2019s surprising for impeachment talk to bubble up this early\u2014but then Trump has been throwing around some surprising ideas for a leading candidate, calling the Geneva Conventions a \u201cproblem\u201d and pitching policies that many see as violating international law. \u201cWhat he\u2019s stated in my judgment would be clearly impeachable offenses,\u201d said Fein, a former Reagan-era Justice Department official who worked on the Bill Clinton impeachment effort. Likewise, Yale Law School lecturer and military justice expert Eugene Fidell offered a similar prediction for Trump from the left. \u201cHe\u2019s certainly said things, which if followed through on, would constitute high crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d Fidell said. And doubtless many of Trump\u2019s foes would like to see him impeached just on principle\u2014the quickest way to broom out a leader who horrifies the inclusive sensibilities of Democrats, and has blown apart the Republican Party he\u2019s nominally part of.
\nSo could it really happen? And how about Limbaugh\u2019s two-day timeline? Given the attention a Trump impeachment has already received\u2014the New York Daily News tabloid opined that \u201cit\u2019s not too early to start\u201d an \u201cImpeach Trump\u201d campaign\u2014it\u2019s worth asking the questions. We interviewed more than a dozen members of Congress, former Capitol Hill administration and presidential campaign aides and legal experts to cobble together a totally hypothetical situation in which Trump were to become the first American chief executive to ever get the ultimate, \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d from lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"