Impeachment Lottery?

[Rev. Rye]

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.

Nixon has far more in the way of scruples than Trump does. And remember how Nixon's lawyer told the Supreme Court, "The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment." Trump's legal counsel has consistently argued much the same thing, without even saying "this is what he wants me to say", and literally the only thing he's demurred on is that he might not even be subject to the court of impeachment.