What will happen if the House impeaches Trump?

[edhopper]

You don't know! I don't know!
I am of the opinion that it will hurt him and that the Senate ignoring the overwhelming evidence of his crimes will hurt the GOP in 2020.
Just my take on things. I could well be wrong.
But some people here think they know that Trump getting a pass by the Senate assures him victory in 2020.
They don't know that, we are in unprecedented territory with this POS POTUS, so maybe we should stop acting like the people here who don't share our conjectures are stupid, we all don't know shit and can only go by our best guesses.

[Trumpocalypse]

1. No one can tell the future

But we can always learn from the past. The Nixon impeachment was successful because the Senate Watergate committee hearings spent a year exposing Nixon’s crimes to the people. The Clinton impeachment wasn’t because Republicans rushed impeachment based on a special counsel report alone.

Since the is no chance of a conviction in the Senate, why take the chance and hand Trump a talking point that he was exonerated. The goal is to get Trump out of office as things stand now the best way to do that is to vote him out next November.

[edhopper]

4. And if House Impaeachment Hearings

do the same as the Watergate Hearings?

Why take the chance of him saying the House could not impeach because no evidence of wrongdoing?

You know for sure that impeaching him will not hurt him?

[Trumpocalypse]

6. Again why take the chance

especially when the Senate won’t convict.

Why not focus on the best, and currently only, way to get him out of office, the election?

[edhopper]

18. What if not impeaching

lets him sell enough Americans his innocence and helps him win in 2020?

[Trumpocalypse]

22. Like you said we don't know the future

What evidence is there that that will happen or will sell more people than an acquittal in the Senate?

[edhopper]

23. There is little evidence either way.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Nothing.

But he will claim victory when the Senate does not remove him.

Forget it. Tear his ass up in a landslide in 2020.

[edhopper]

5. He will claim he is exonerated

when the House doesn't impeach.

And enough voters will (especially the ones who don't pay attention) will think he did nothing wrong.

It's your opinion, you don't know what will happen. Neither do I.

A landslide would be nice, but the Electoral College is his friend.

[Martin Eden]

8. Trump will claim victory and total exoneration if the House does not impeach

And Senate Republicans will be tarred with the feces of this POtuS when they fail to convict.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. The senate republicans are tarred with feces NOW

and it hasn't mattered a bit. In fact, then revel in it.

[Martin Eden]

10. You know that. I know that.

But millions of voters do not follow all of this as closely as you or I.

Shining the bright spotlight of impeachment hearings on Trumpian feces will smear it more widely and effectively where it belongs heading into November 2020.

[Bettie]

11. He will claim victory and total exoneration in any circumstance

even if the Senate voted to remove him, he'd claim he was totally exonerated because Senator X, Y, and Z failed to convict.

[Martin Eden]

14. Therefore, what Trump is likely to claim ...

... should in no way influence whether or not the Democrats decide to impeach.

[Bettie]

15. Precisely

what he will or will not say should not influence anyone with regard to impeachment.

[Martin Eden]

16. Yep -- to do otherwise would yield control to this criminal POtuS

Time for Democrats to turn the tables by exerting control with all the powers at our disposal.

[edhopper]

19. This is my feeling to Martin.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. The Asterisk * stain on his presidency. ...

Is like Barry Bonds having the asterisk stain on his MLB career due to Steroid use to enhance his game.

Donald Trump will not be able to shed that stain,of impeachment ever. The Senate Republicans will be labeled "Racist enablers" who can run, but not hide.

[Martin Eden]

7. When in doubt ...

... do the right thing!

Members of Congress have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

What message does it send when the US House of Representatives doesn't even make an attempt to fulfill that oath by impeaching a president who has clearly committed high crimes & misdemeanors and is the asset of a foreign adversary?

On the other hand, if this domestic enemy is impeached by the House but the Senate doesn't convict, a very different message will be sent about Republicans failing to uphold their sworn oath.

[edhopper]

20. Fucking A!

[kentuck]

12. Republicans will denounce it.

Trump will say that it helps him.

The media will report on the side of Trump and the Republicans.

They will do everything they can to stop the Democrats from hurting themselves in the next election, They are so concerned about the Democrats.

[NotASurfer]

13. Still has to go to the Senate

If Moscow Mitch thinks the minions will hold firm, he lets the trial proceed

OTOH if there are cracks in the firewall, he ignores the impeachment and refuses to start a Senate trial

Maybe the House inquiry needs to throw light on how Mitch is being compromised and how he is obstructing justice while they're at it

[abqtommy]

17. Twumpy will surely cwy and pout

and flail at all that is about. When the dust settles won't it be fun
to see Widdle Twumpy on the run!

[Voltaire2]

21. It will be far more difficult to obstruct

the impeachment investigation.

It is about exposing the truth, about the process. Of course the Senate isn’t going to do anything. That is irrelevant.