Let’s hypothesize for a second that the Republican best dream is true:
1. Burisma: Admits to being the world’s most corrupt company by funding pro choice groups, organizing gun control rallies, and laundering George Soros money to Black Lives Matter.
2. Hunter Biden: Admits to never graduating from law school and accepting a job at Burisma strictly to trigger the right... And being way dumber than Don JR.
3. Joe Biden: Admits that he couldn’t win in a fist fight against Trump because Trump is in even better shape than Rocky in Rocky 4. And that he pressured the international community to fire the corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor strictly to help his son.
4. Crowdstrike: Lets pretend a Ukrainian man finds in a warehouse a white box marked CROWDSTRIKE: DNC SERVER. And it’s loaded with thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails. These emails detail how she killed Vince Foster and Seth Rich, planned the Benghazi attack, and was going to use her presidency to load all 80+ year old Fox News viewers into concentration camps.
Even then, wouldn't Trump’s actions still be impeachable?
I. A president can’t hold up money allocated by congress if congress hasn't specifically added stipulations to those funds, right?
II. A president can’t bypass his entire state department and send his personal lawyer to conduct shadow diplomacy, right?
III. A president can’t blackmail a foreign leader to interfere in our elections, right? Even if such investigations are warranted, the firing of ambassadors and smearing their reputations to enable interference into our elections using foreign aid is still impeachable, right?
IV. The president can’t obstruct an investigation into his actions, like he’s done, right? I mean, if congress can’t arrest him because he must first be impeached, then certainly congress needs to be able to investigate him cleanly and without obstruction to determine whether impeachment is warranted, right?
Are republicans really ready to set this precedent? What happens when President Warren commits these same acts in 2023? Will republicans empower her with monarchial powers because of the precedent they’ve set with Trump?
If I’m wrong then someone explain using facts that I’m wrong. But it seems to me that no matter how you slice it, Trump has abused his office to the point that he needs to be impeached. Otherwise, the precedent set essentially eliminates impeachment from the presidency and gives the president complete power and immunity to do what he or she wants. An absolute monarchy, is that really what the founders envisioned?