Trump is counting on his base to endorse his increasingly open law-breaking. It may not end well. His public appeal to China last week to help uncover dirt on the Biden family was both a brazen flouting of the law and an astute political tactic.
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We're a long way from the way the authors of the Constitution imagined impeachment. But here are three compelling reasons to impeach Trump.
President Trump doubled down on his impeachable behavior on Thursday, using his 'Chopper Talk' time with reporters to signal that he wants China to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.
When effectively employed by the president of the United States and his agents, conspiracy theories disorient the whole of the body politic. Gaslighting is a classic tactic of authoritarian leaders.
A president who is out of control confronts an agency that wants to show Congress and the public that it is under control. All of which underscores the new reality of Washington’s impeachment season: nobody’s in control.
Impeachment is a constitutional tool designed for times of extraordinary abnormality — say, for instance, when a president presides over an obscenely lawless administration. It's a way of bringing politics back to normal.
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Timing matters. The book under review--a history of whistle blowing-- was released coterminous with news of a whistleblower's alleging evidence of Trump's criminal misfeasance in office, the commission of which could cost him the presidency.
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