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WASHINGTON Even as they are set to acquit President Trump in his impeachment trial this week, Senate Republicans appear to be increasingly breaking with his defense that he did nothing wrong.
On Sunday, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who was a key vote against calling witnesses in the Senate trial, expanded upon his criticism that Mr. Trump was crossing the line in his pressure campaign against Ukraine. And Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, who has remained a reliable defender of the president during his trial, called his actions not what I would have done.
A day before the first contest of the 2020 election, two days before Mr. Trumps State of the Union address and three days before his expected acquittal, they and other Republicans appeared to be coalescing around a more nuanced argument: Mr. Trumps efforts to push Ukraine into investigating a political rival while withholding critical military aid might not have been appropriate. But that did not warrant the presidents removal from office for the first time in American history.
I think he shouldnt have done it I think it was wrong, Mr. Alexander said Sunday on Meet the Press on NBC. Inappropriate, was the way Id say it. Improper, crossing the line. And then the only question left is: Who decides what to do about that?
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Only blow jobs are impeachable, unless a Republican gives one.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Impeachable, just BAD to do so!
progree
(10,908 posts)HatTip to Tansy_Gold and of course the cartoonist whose name I can't make out but it begins with an "M" https://www.democraticunderground.com/111687348
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)or to otherwise help dig up scandal, real or created. You won't be able to compete otherwise.
This is the new reality Republicans have created.