{"id":34660,"date":"2019-01-05T04:27:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34660"},"modified":"2019-01-05T04:27:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:27:15","slug":"heres-how-you-impeach-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34660","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how you impeach a president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump has posed what I presume is a rhetorical question. It appears in a Twitter message he sent out today.<\/p>\n

I believe I have the answer. I’ll be brief.<\/p>\n

You impeach a president when you receive the findings of a former FBI director who’s been named special counsel, someone who’s been poring over mountains of evidence to determine if there’s been wrongdoing involving the president’s campaign.<\/p>\n

The counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, might reveal that there was conspiracy to obstruct justice, that the president has financial dealings with Russian government officials, that he has lied to Americans about a so-called absence of such involvement; he might determine there’s a violation of the constitutional clause that prohibits presidents from taking gifts from foreign governments.<\/p>\n

All that other stuff, the supposed popularity, the “greatest election of all time,” “the most successful first two years of any president” won’t matter one bit.<\/p>\n

That’s how you do it, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

We’ll just have to wait for Robert Mueller to finish his work.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump has posed what I presume is a rhetorical question. It appears in a Twitter message he sent out today. I believe I have the answer. I’ll be brief. You impeach a president when you receive the findings of a former FBI director who’s been named special counsel, someone who’s been poring over mountains … Continue reading Here’s how you impeach a president<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,3983,7093,7793],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34662,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions\/34662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}