>>>Neither of our two prior impeachments (Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton) had been shown to have committed a previously established crime.
>>>It's pretty broad. The house can impeach the president for not being a nice person.
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>They didn't say "we want to impeach Clinton, lets investigate him until we find a crime".
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We don't know what they said. We see what they did and, as the Bible says, by your fruits ye shall know them.
It's impossible to overestimate Newt Gingrich's ignominy - or Bill Clinton's.
Trying to extract profound insights from what those people did should be left to the TV people, who are paid to entice you to hang around between commercial breaks.

Check the history books about Andrew Johnson's impeachment. It paints our democracy in an even seedier light.


>By the way, I see that DHS just published the December figures for apprehensions at the southern border. There's a new record for family members attempting to cross illegally: almost 28,000 in December of whom more than half are minors. This excludes unaccompanied children, adults traveling alone and those presenting legally at border crossings. Total apprehensions for Q1 were over 184K which validates Trump's thousands per day. Of note is that family member apprehensions in Q1 exceed the *annual totals* in 5 of the last 7 years which appears to support Trump's humanitarian crisis. Seems to me that rather than trawling for reasons to call Trump a liar, hate checkers might consider the implications of 500 dehydrated exhausted kids illegally crossing somewhere along 2000 miles of border every day. If they must come, at least channel them to 48 legal crossings where you can concentrate humanitarian support.


If asked to name 50 issues facing US citizens today, I doubt that the wall would make the cut on any serious person's list.

Trump put up buildings in NYC where the Mafia controlled every brick and every light switch and Russian and Chinese mobsters who did the financing watched every penny.

He is playing you like a violin.