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Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
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Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters had difficulty explaining why she thinks Donald Trump’s campaign attacks against Hillary Clinton are impeachable offenses while being interviewed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Monday night.
Waters, who will join Georgia Rep. John Lewis in boycotting Trump’s inauguration on Friday, first ran into difficulty when Matthews asked why some Democrats still view Trump as “illegitimate.” “If there’s some sort of — as you call it — collusion,” the “Hardball” host noted. “Then what? Does that make Trump subject to impeachment?
Just generally, tell me what you mean by the term.” “Well here’s what I’m trying to get to,” Waters responded. “If we discover that Donald Trump or his advocates played a role to help provide strategy — if they’re the ones who came up with ‘Crooked Hillary,’ if they’re the ones who came up with, ‘she’s ill, something’s wrong with her energy,’ and the way that he basically described her during the campaign — I think that is something that would put the question squarely on the table whether or not he should be impeached.”
“So, you think you can commit an impeachable offense before you take office?” Matthews incredulously asked the California Democrat.
“Well, I think that at the point that investigations discover and confirm and can document any of that role in helping to strategize — they had a role in attempting to determine the outcome,” she answered regardless of the actual question. “That in many ways they used the information they got when they hacked into emails etc. — if that was used against Hillary Clinton in some way, yes I think that’s impeachable.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Why do you waste so much time on the petty, mean, and unimportant?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Sounds like Maxine doesn't like him, either, along with many others, I suppose. But, an impeachment is just an accusation.
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Anyway, to clarify something that's been bugging me and I don't want to be misinterpreted. I'm not sure many R-tribers are comfortable with Don Trump leading their tribe into the 21st century, either, but they have to tip-toe around the guy because he is their chief. He's wearing the feather-adorned headdress.
There have been good guys and bad guys within both tribes and some even became chieftains since the inception of this democratic nation. There are members of both tribes that see Trump as a self-serving, thin-skinned, narcissistic, egocentric authoritarian oligarch and they don't feel that is healthy leadership for a government organized of, by, and for the people.
Bottomline line for me is that I don't view Donald Trump as a good fit as a president in a democratic society due to his personality and leadership style, not because he's a Republican, but for the reasons I listed in the previous paragraph.
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Re: Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Just Fred wrote:
Sounds like Maxine doesn't like him, either, along with many others, I suppose. But, an impeachment is just an accusation.
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Anyway, to clarify something that's been bugging me and I don't want to be misinterpreted. I'm not sure many R-tribers are comfortable with Don Trump leading their tribe into the 21st century, either, but they have to tip-toe around the guy because he is their chief. He's wearing the feather-adorned headdress.
There have been good guys and bad guys within both tribes and some even became chieftains since the inception of this democratic nation. There are members of both tribes that see Trump as a self-serving, thin-skinned, narcissistic, egocentric authoritarian oligarch and they don't feel that is healthy leadership for a government organized of, by, and for the people.
Bottomline line for me is that I don't view Donald Trump as a good fit as a president in a democratic society due to his personality and leadership style, not because he's a Republican, but for the reasons I listed in the previous paragraph.
That is pretty much how I feel, Fred. I think that many republicans feel the same.
But the fans? Well, it's more like a cult than a political movement.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Trump will not be impeached at least with the info available today.
I am sure there are a lot of people on the D-tribe side that are concerned about the validity of the election, but it is basically is not for voter fraud, but rather outside influence and that will be difficult if not impossible to determine how it might have made a difference.
That said, Trump has many business and other ties to foreign entities and that should be a concern that is looked at closely. I say this whether he be an R-triber of D-triber.
The same goes for any appointments to any high office.
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Re: Rep. Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
What's the old adage? Give him enough rope . . .