OPINION
Beware, Dems: History shows that impeachment is high-risk
By Michael Barone
September 27, 2019 | 8:13pm
REUTERS
Precedents abound in a country whose first presidential election took place 230 years ago. Three of our 44 presidents have faced impeachment proceedings — Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — and now it seems Donald Trump will be the fourth.
Democrats have been itching to oust Trump from office since election night nearly three years ago. High law-enforcement and intelligence officials started trying to keep him from the White House months earlier and for three years pushed the theory that he and his campaign were acting in collusion with Russia.
Collusiongate finally collapsed, in the words of New York Times editor Dean Baquet, “the day Bob Mueller walked off that witness stand,” when “our readers who want Donald Trump to go away” realized that wasn’t going to happen.
So, now, we hear that a whistleblower had been told Trump abused his powers in a telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Trump announced he would release the transcript, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the Democratic-majority House was officially considering impeachment.
The transcript doesn’t read exactly as the still-anonymous whistleblower had claimed. Trump asked the newly installed Ukrainian president to investigate 2016 anti-Trump efforts there.
Democrats claimed Trump offered a quid pro quo by suggesting he’d released US aid he’d been holding up. But Trump said nothing about that. Given his broad powers, any request the president makes of a foreign government could be called a threat.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/09/27/beware-dems-history-shows-that-impeachment-is-high-risk/
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Trump’s support has remained impervious to charges of personal or professional misconduct, just as his detractors remain impervious to claims that his policies have been successful. What could hurt Democrats in times of discontent, when impeachment is unpopular, is their opportunism in seizing on any excuse to vent their rage. The Ukrainian phone call is much smaller potatoes than collusion with Russia would have been.
But Democrats “who want Donald Trump to go away” just couldn’t wait to let voters make that choice. They risk four more years of angry frustration.
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