True, trump wasnt convicted in the Senate, if was the Superior Court of New York.
Oops, it looks like I can’t read. Thank you for correcting me. The Impeachment trial for Clinton was while he was in office, so that’s one complaint I messed up.
The court admission also happened while he was still in office. His license was suspended on Jan.19, 2001.
Stop conflating issues. I was discussing impeachment and the claim no President from either party can now be convicted of it. Not legal proceedings after he left office.
Our future Attn General might have done some bad stuff. I thought the guy was squeaky clean? Just kidding.
Senate Republicans are hoping Trump doesn’t make them “walk the plank.”
Senate Republicans deliver a message to Trump: Gaetz isn’t confirmable - POLITICO
Numerous Republican lawmakers told Donald Trump and his team that they believe his pick to be attorney general, controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz, has little chance of being confirmed, according to multiple Senate Republican and people around Trump. And they’re privately hoping Trump doesn’t make them walk the plank.
I have a theory that a considerable amount of Trump’s “power” over Senate Republicans is predicated on the idea that nobody is going to have the nerve backbone to stand up to him in any meaningful way. That is, he isn’t expecting more than one or two to stand in his way and he feels he can just bulldoze those over with bluster and threats.
If he tries to make them “walk the plank,” I suspect he’ll find that the ones who are willing will be too many for him to make an example of and it won’t work.
Remember, approx. 1/3rd of the Senate Republicans won’t be up for re-election until 2030 (the ones elected this year), so they don’t have as much to fear. That’s what, 10-15 of them? Some others (like McConnell) are planning or retiring, anyway, so he can’t hurt those, either. It only takes 4 or 5 to vote down anything Trump proposes.
Sure, it’s easy to use the threat of being primaried on House members, they are up for re-election every two years. It’s harder to make that stick on Senators. And, even in the House, if Trump’s takeover attempt of the US Government shows signs of faltering, he’s likely to lose support there as those critters are likely to begin to fear a Big Blue Wave in 2026.
No, this is a big showdown, and I am grateful for the Republican Senators willing to stand up.
I don’t think they understand he WANTS to make them. It’s part of his revenge campaign.
They haven’t done shit yet. I’ll believe that more than 2-3 of them will refuse to swallow the Gaetz sandwich when I see it.
Best case scenario they draw the line at Gaetz and then confirm Gabbard, Hegseth, and RFK Jr.
So instead of a child predator and drug addict at DOJ, an anti-vax nutjob at HHS, a sexual abuser at DOD, and a Russian asset as DNI, we just have the last 3.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he’s out:
It’s pretty obvious (to me, anyway) that the House report contains enough damaging evidence to derail his confirmation. And enough Senators would demand the report so it would have to be given to the Senate.
So will we American citizens ever know what’s in the report? Inquiring minds want to know, dammit!
He was already a dead man walking. Per the article, five GOP senators were already on the record (and had communicated this to Trump’s team) that they would not be voting to confirm Gaetz and that there was about a snowball’s chance in hell that they could be persuaded otherwise.
Gaetz could only afford to lose three Republican votes, and that’s assuming no additional defections.