Trump might actually want to be impeached.
For what it’s worth, Ann Coulter has thought this, although not in any n-dimensional way recently calling Trump a “wimp”.
One could even call his unhinged CPAC speech on Saturday, a taunt leveled at those who favor a 25th Amendment solution to the current national nightmare. Sadly, #FatNixon cannot even properly execute a madman theory.
Could the GOP try to impeach Trump as an election ploy, because he now needs an impeachment to run against, knowing that he’d be “exonerated” by a GOP Senate majority.
The first GOP members of the House to introduce such a bill will signal that tactic. Devin Nunes could even do it to divert attention from his own obstruction efforts while chairing the House Intel committee. More likely it will be someone who like the Senate’s Rand Paul’s vote against the Emergency, claims to be “principled”.
Fortunately House Democratic leadership has tamped down impeachment talk, but a subliminal fervor for it remains strong enough for Trump to whip up in order to show how “harassed” he’s become.
The GOP Senate will not turn against him until they realize that he will be a liability in their re-election campaigns, and could even support the bills of impeachment as yet another diversion tactic. Because doesn’t Individual-1 need his “day in court” at the Senate, “just like Bill Clinton”.
The solution is for Democrats to conduct relentless investigations up to election day 2020, looking toward indictments falling on the day after the 2021 inaugural.
The memes for “insurgent” Republicans are already there:
(2018) A Republican state lawmaker in Texas is calling for President Trump to be impeached.
“Since Donald J. Trump has been president, he alone has increased the national debt by over $1 trillion. Yes. One trillion dollars. The fastest any president in U.S. history has accrued that level of debt,” Jason Villalba wrote in an editorial published by The Texas Tribune’s “TribTalk” on Wednesday.
“Our president has mocked and belittled our immigration laws, our intelligence agencies, our foreign policy strategy and even the American people. We have been called 'stupid,' 'weak,' ‘a joke’ and ‘pathetic,’ all by our own president," Villalba continued, adding that he was one of the “only Republican elected officials in the country to plead with the American voters to abandon this charlatan prior to his election.”
“For my transgressions, I was summarily unelected from the Texas Legislature. I have no regrets. I always do what I believe is right. That is not politically expedient, but it helps me sleep at night,” the lawmaker, who lost the GOP primary in Texas House District 114 in March, said.
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