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by locknitpicker 40 days ago
> He's not really up for re-election, so I'm not sure what approval numbers have to do with it

As an outsider, it seems the US midterm elections are a couple of months from now. If republicans lose, Donald Trump will most likely be impeached for all the mind numbingly high-level corruption and involvement in a pedophile ring.
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0cf8612b2e1e 40 days ago
Quite unlikely to get an impeachment. While there is the (long) possibility of Dems flipping the House and Senate, they will not alone have the votes to force him out without a number of Republicans to defect in the Senate. Anything is possible, but given how much insanity has already been tacitly approved, the economy would have to hit truly apocalyptic levels to expect that outcome.
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sidewndr46 38 days ago
impeachment is effectively a legal fantasy in the United States. The government does not punish it's own. We couldn't impeach Richard Nixon, a career criminal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_efforts_to_impeach_pre...

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