Apparently they can impeach him after he leaves office.
They can’t.
Waller comments on that here:
“The Constitution defines who is subject to impeachment (Article II, section 4). It stipulates, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Senate must vote separately to bar an impeached official from office. That vote, unlike the vote to convict, requires a simple majority. But that vote is not in order until after the Senate has voted to convict the official based on the articles of impeachment. The Senate cannot remove someone from office if they are not in that office. And absent a conviction vote, the Senate cannot bar someone from holding future office. The consequences of giving Congress this power would be to allow it to bar private citizens from holding office preemptively.”
That’s not necessarily a bad thing- hear me out...
1) if they try and impeach him it will only make his supporters such as myself more fervent about him...
2) it would be nothing but bad optics for the rest of DC, impeaching a President that’s out of office...
[Apparently they can impeach him after he leaves office.]
They can definitely impeach him after he leaves office. He can be convicted and precluded from ever running for office again. That’s really the only purpose of doing something stupid like this.
I had heard that too. But how is it possible? And for what?
Well...
...in that case, I want Woodrow Wilson impeached posthumously.
How could an ex POTUS be impeached? Impossible. Certainly not removal as there is nothing to be removed. A private citizen non-officeholder is to be subject to a political process? It would just be a meaningless rant. Nope. I