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by Ben Zonia » Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:11 pm
The thing to realize is that it takes 67 votes in the SENATE to convict and remove a President, and that's almost impossible.
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Many historians now admit that the evidence was exaggerated by Woodward and Bernstein, and despite someone saying they were "Deep Throat" before they died, it is doubtful that there was really enough evidence to impeach. They told Nixon they had the votes to impeach for political expedience, fearing voter reprisal, but historians now doubt that they had the 67 votes.
Although Jimmy Carter was and is a much more decent and honest man than almost any other President, his Presidency was a disaster, though he beat Ford in 1976 in the aftermath, but lost in 1980 to Ronald Reagan.
They had a lot more on Clinton than the perjury charges about Monica Lewinsky, but many Democrats and some Republicans wanted to bargain it down to just being about sex, allowing them to vote no on impeachment, and not deal with the consequences of voter reprisal.
By impeaching Trump two and planned three times for things that have been disproven, and more will be disproven, they've made impeachment of any President present and future into a clown show.
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