Well, if you were a betting man, then you would realize that not a single President has ever been successfully impeached since the countries founding.
T is number 45.
Two had impeachments turned over to the Senate by the House.
and then there is Nixon.
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Dems are rehashing their Nixon glory as a comedy.
> Well, if you were a betting man, then you would realize that not a single President has ever been successfully impeached since the country’s founding. <
Right. But let’s take a closer look. Neither Andrew Johnson nor Bill Clinton did anything that threatened the structure of the Republic. So neither man should have been impeached in the first place, IMHO. (And yes, I know that Bill Clinton behaved like a pig, and then lied about it.)
On the other hand, Nixon was accused of things that really threatened the structure of the Republic. And he resigned because he knew he would have been impeached, and then convicted. GOP senator Hugh Scott told him as much.
Trump finds himself in the same position as was Nixon, accused of doing things that threaten the Republic. The only difference is that Nixon probably was guilty. Trump is not guilty. But the Democrats don’t care about that.
Nixon never would have resigned today. He was so screwed. Today he’d have a segment of the media that would tell the Dems to screw off.