# Sage Rat, your time is up

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**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sage-rat-your-time-is-up/846807 "2020-01-22T17:49:15Z")\
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It’s perfectly clear that Okrahoma drew a distinction between “impeached” and “impeached and removed from office”:

> [@Name the Impeachment Date for President Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-impeachment-date-for-president-trump/776879/96):
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> Once again, I have to repeat. If you were a Republican, would you want GOP to be forever known as the only party, ever, that had a President that was impeached and removed from office?
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> That’s a permanent, and enormous, black mark.

> [@Name the Impeachment Date for President Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-impeachment-date-for-president-trump/776879/100):
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> **THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT BLACK MARK.**
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> Look up Richard Milhous Nixon. Read and be amazed.

> [@Name the Impeachment Date for President Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-impeachment-date-for-president-trump/776879/101):
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> “impeached and removed from office”.

Given that distinction he drew less than two days after he agreed to the bet terms (“Bets off if he’s impeached/killed/etc.”), it’s pretty rich for him to try to collect on it.

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