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WYFP? Maybe he's antichrist adjacent? [1]

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Date: 2025-05-03

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she rejected an offer by President Donald Trump to send US troops across the border to help combat drug trafficking

Impeachment No. 3 seems inevitable

We are “a long way from success in impeachment and removal,” Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky cautions, and says Democrats should be strategic about timing. Their first realistic chance will be after the midterms. If Democrats win a House majority in 2026, Trump would almost certainly face a 2027 impeachment inquiry and his third impeachment. He’s matched most of the offenses that appeared in impeachment articles against past presidents, and now is forging new ground in both volume and subject areas, with violations of laws and the Constitution piling up each day.

He has failed to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” as he swore in his oath of office, and he has failed to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed,” as the Constitution instructs. He personally granted clemency to some 1,600 January 6th rioters, including dozens with earlier convictions or pending charges for serious crimes, and sent them back into communities where they are now in the forefront of a trend that Atlantic writer David Graham calls the pardon-to-prison pipeline.

Meanwhile, the people Trump and the Republican Senate have installed to run the departments of Justice, Defense, and Health and Human Services are abysmal failures in areas of huge consequence. Their slipshod, careless, unscientific, even hostile leadership falls far short of the mission that the Founders laid out so eloquently in the Constitution’s Preamble : to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves.”

It’s dispiriting to try and catalogue it all, but we must bear witness.

I KNOW SOME WONDER what good an impeachment proceeding will do, especially given that Trump has already survived two and managed a comeback. It helps to remember that many people said the same of the January 6th hearings, and yet they were a spectacle and a drama and a civics education for the country. They produced the headlines necessary to permanently imprint that travesty in the minds of people alive now, and in the history books that others will read later.

That should be the two-year plan. Impeachment after the midterms, two years into Trump’s term and the struggle to hang on to the country we hope we really are. A time when a few Republicans could finally, belatedly, decide it’s time to end the madness. And if they don’t, a Democrat-led impeachment proceeding and House vote would at the very least be a watershed moment—a reckoning as dramatic and necessary as the January 6th hearings that riveted the nation.

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