(September 29, 2019 at 9:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 29, 2019 at 8:23 pm)Jehanne Wrote: And, yes, "impeachment" means Trump leaving office; sorry for the confusion.
Yeah, it's worth noting that, of all the heads of state to be impeached, two of the three to not be leave office were American Presidents, and Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both acquitted. The third was Boris Yeltsin, who point-blank refused to leave office. It seems that American democracy is uniquely impervious to impeachment proceedings, even when those people who could impeach him haven't consistently chosen the person under impeachment over the rule of law.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin in 1776, You talk as if successful impeachment were the rule. It's never been done before. No president has ever been cast off from the White House in the history of the United States.
Nixon was a clear exception; he would not have resigned otherwise.
