Ok, here’s a preliminary effort. Let me know if you want to work on it by private message, and I’ll try to enable you though I’m not sure how exactly.
edit one day later: I realized that the link I originally published made it a little hard to see the list. I am still struggling with zoho, but today I have created a slightly revised version that should make it a little easier:
change of plan, I’ll just be the sole editor for now, but if anyone has any input on reasons I may have missed, please let me know and I’ll try to add them.
Well, to a large extent I’m just duplicating the tables here:
So, I’ll probably just ease up, but still, I think there would be value in breaking out the different reasons in a more methodical way, and perhaps providing some sort of categorization or loose groupings, along with mentioning reasons that don’t yet seem to be there.
I don’t see anything yet about Trump’s history of S.A. and association with a known high-end pimp, but maybe that will show up somewhere, I haven’t finished going through.
In all of these matters, it is worth mentioning again and again that any one or two of these allegations would, if proven be grounds for impeachment and conviction of any other President, with both parties coming together on the matter, at least to a degree. In Trump’s case, the Republicans are utterly without honor in blocking Impeachment and Conviction. Their lack of basic human principles in voting for and supporting Trump is not something, I think, that can be addressed.
I jump cut to when Nixon took office. His early career and failed political attempts don’t inform all that much, but if you’re curious about that you can rewind it to the beginning…
It is NOT rocket science to figure out if the votes are there for impeachment, before bringing it to the floor. The votes are NOT there YET. An open letter inviting Repubs to join in an impeachment signed by Dems who want to do it would clearly establish if the votes are there for it.
We have to see if Massie prevails in his primary race on May 19th -next Tuesday. If he does, there will be a good chance that some Repubs will throw in for an impeachment BEFORE the midterms -possibly even outside primary challengers against Repubs who are presently seated.
Many Dems will NOT vote for impeachment because Israel does not want them to (the Trump-in-the-hand vs. the Pence-in-the-bush…) Yes: a number of Dems recently came out against accepting AIPAC donor money; but MANY are still addicted, and try to keep their allegiance off their sleeves.
Having a floor vote that we know will fail will clearly be a worse outcome for ultimately accomplishing impeachment; a “vote of conscience” gets us jack shit! Figures this terrible strategy comes from NADER, the guy who stayed in, in 2000, for the Greens and ended up giving a win to Bush -producing some of the most regressive environmental legislation not seen until recently with Bunker Boy, and ended up killing a nascent US electric vehicle program at GM, putting us 20 years behind other countries in the tech…
You might also enjoy this 7 part podcast about the removal of deeply corrupt Spiro Agnew as Vice President just before President Nixon was pushed out of office
If you do want to listen, you may have to hunt a little bit for which podcast system has the episodes.
I am not at all suggesting that this time would or should be similar (removal of a VP before the POTUS), except insofar as we can see that the wheels of justice did turn and the main prize (prevention of corrupt Agnew from ascending to the Presidency) was achieved, although it was arguably a bittersweet partially-inadequate result.
After the Massie outcome tonight, I say the impeachment will have to be partisan now (as much as I don’t think that’s a great idea…)
The Dem Party will see little reason to reform now that there is a much less competitive party challenging them.
Given that the Dem Party is co-opted by Israel in various subtle ways, I don’t see an impeachment coming from them even if they prevail in the midterms. The Israelis want Trump to stick around.
And Sanders can keep having the fantasy that his speeches alone will revamp the Dem Party (as opposed to starting an Independent alliance…)