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45 years after Nixon, another US president faces impeachment
Some might call it TREASON!
On August 7, 1974, a trio of top Republican leaders went to the White House and told President Richard Nixon that party support was eroding and impeachment was inevitable.
He resigned the next day.
Fast forward 45 years, and another US president, Donald Trump, is facing impeachment by the House of Representatives and a potential trial in the Senate.
Unlike Nixon, however, Trump appears to enjoy — at least for the time being — the support of Republican lawmakers, and has given no hint that he’ll buckle in the face of what he calls a partisan “witch hunt.”
“Partisanship is so much stronger today than it was back in the days of Watergate.”
Trump is accused of withholding vital military aid from Ukraine, a country at war with Russia, in a bid to elicit political dirt on potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Adam Schiff, chairman of the Democratic-controlled House committee conducting the impeachment inquiry, claimed that Trump’s conduct goes “beyond anything Nixon did.”
“What we’ve seen here is far more serious than a third-rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters,” Schiff said in a reference to the 1972 breakin.
“One is just about domestic politics,” Caldera said, while Trump “withheld military aid to an ally at war.”
“He’s not advancing legitimate US national or foreign policy ends,” he said. “He’s basically trying to stir the pot to create problems for a political rival.”
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At the end of the day, Caldera said, Democrats — with or without a smoking gun — are going to have to “convince the American people that what was done (by Trump) was an abuse of power.”
“If there’s public support for impeachment, than that creates the cover for Republican members to be courageous,” he said. “Without that, they’re not going to be courageous.”
Some might call it TREASON!