Explain the impeachment to me

[Rev. Rye]

The issue is that, IIRC, a lot of the issue with Trump doing the quid pro quo is that, in the cases Cato is talking about, the "quo" is convincing the nations at hand to play nice and stay within the preferred standards of human rights. The key difference in Trump's case is that the "quo" is compromising material on Joe Biden that Trump wants to use to gain an upper hand in the 2020 election, in essence, personal gain. And this is compounded by the results of the Muller report, which, while they failed to prove that Trump personally colluded in Russia's interfence in 2016, there's enough circumstantial evidence that the Dems will pounce on a repeat happening in real time.

That said, the impeachment is risky, as it hinges on the assumption that the Republicans controlling the Senate would give a shit about the rule of law, and wouldn't work to protect him even if he did this:



There is historical precedent that supports this, like how the Republicans started to support impeachment after Nixon became an obvious crook, but how much this applies to Trump remains to be seen.