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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"You can't impeach a popular President."
Richard Nixon had carried 49 states less than two years before he was impeached.
Someone needs to explain to Trump that the residual stock market run will not insulate him from the Constututional remedy.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)PSPS
(13,599 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)That's not the definition of popular, anywhere.
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)While I agree with you, for context, did you see the important reminder by Lawrence O'Donnell on a key vote in House Judiciary in 1974?
http://msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-s-last-word-the-honorable-republican-in-nixon-impeachment-hearings-1502753859993
MineralMan
(146,311 posts)He could still think straight, at least. Trump can't remember the last time he thought for more than 5 seconds.
Siwsan
(26,263 posts)And he's the first POTUS* to be able to claim that particular distinction?
Perhaps he uses a whole different dictionary than MOST of the rest of us.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)and said it was his approval rating. He probably still believes that.
happybird
(4,608 posts)Bet the comments were deliciously savage.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)House: Impeaches
Senate: Convicts
Fiendish Thingy
(15,616 posts)The judicial committee approved 3 articles of impeachment, which would have gone to the full house for a vote if Nixon had not resigned first.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)spanone
(135,837 posts)sarisataka
(18,655 posts)Do you happen to know of one?
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)He ended with 24% approval July August 1974.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Fact: They lost the popular vote.
Fact: Their policies are unpopular.
Fact: tRump's polling numbers have never put him in a majority.
They ARE the minority. Always have been. The majority are being told how and what to do by the minority.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)kentuck
(111,097 posts)....and they impeached him??
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Impeachment Lessons: What Saved Clinton from Nixon's Fate
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212037515
Beacool
(30,249 posts)He's been underwater ever since he announced his candidacy. He entered the WH with the lowest ratings in Gallup's history, and they've been around since 1935. He's only hit 50% on Rasmussen and they trend conservative.
Like every one of his utterances and tweets, Trump lied.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)He slipped below 50% about May 1973, over a year before he was impeached. He was at 24% approval when impeachment was referred by Committee to the House July 1974. For a few months before the "remove from office" figure had been flirting with 50%.
Trump never was as popular as Nixon was.
calimary
(81,267 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)This is how Dear Leaders are made.
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)The fraud that currently occupies the job has an approval of 37%, at best. Not that popularity levels are relevant to the matter.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)He was impeached and also popular.