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There are immediate calls for the impeachment of both Attorney General William Barr and Trump after the Mueller report exposed a cover-up to protect the president.
CREDO Action co-director Heidi Hess said in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA:
It’s a cover-up. The entire world just watched as the Attorney General of the United States participated in a blatant cover-up of obstruction of justice. The Attorney General is supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, not the president’s personal publicist. Throughout this process, William Barr’s top priority has been to protect Donald Trump at the expense of the rule of law. His behavior today and since his confirmation is well below the dignity of the office he currently holds and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is incapable of being the country’s chief law enforcement officer.
We now know that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report laid out 10 distinct episodes of potential obstruction of justice. But even before today, we already knew that Donald Trump was entirely unfit for office, and has repeatedly acted with a disqualifying contempt for the rule of law. Whether it’s attempting to ban an entire religion from the United States, firing a law enforcement official investigating his campaign, or personally ordering his lawyer to lie to the American people about an extramarital affair, there is more than enough in the public record right now for Democrats to move forward with impeachment.
Any Impeachment Will Die In The Senate
The problems with impeachment are that it is a slow process that might not be completed before the 2020 election, and even if the House does impeach Trump and Barr, they will never be convicted in the Senate.
Republicans have shown for more than two years now that they will never take a stand against Trump. lt doesn’t matter how many crimes Trump commits, or that William Barr is openly lying. Senate Republicans will keep turning a blind eye to Trump’s crimes.
The only certain remedy for ridding the nation of a criminal president is at the ballot box next November. Unless Republicans have a change of heart and grow a spine, impeachment will go nowhere and accomplish nothing.
The people who can fix this are voters who must be determined to get to the polls to hand out swift justice to Donald Trump.
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GameboyPATH on April 18th, 2019 at 22:43 UTC »
By whom. Journalists need to end passive language in their headlines without ever identifying a subject. Absolutely nowhere in the article does it talk about any particular person or group making a call for impeachment, the very thing that the headline says is happening. The author instead goes on to make a (barebones) case for impeachment and a (basic) explanation for why it's unlikely. This is not a good article.
There "have been" people who exist who want the president impeached - that's constantly happening. A news story should say when someone important does it, and name them.
Edit: Fixed language to be less emotionally charged, since I don't want to be part of the problem that's politically dividing us.
kayonesoft on April 18th, 2019 at 21:32 UTC »
There's absolutely no surprise here. People have been calling to impeach Trump since he swore in.
What would actually be surprising and newsworthy is if any if those people calling for his impeachment were Republicans.
mooshymumu on April 18th, 2019 at 21:31 UTC »
And on and on it goes. By the time this all comes to an end it will be election time again.