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Trump, Impeachments and Presidential Legacies
Fred Lucas | Posted: Jul 06, 2021 12:01 AM
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C-SPAN’s first post-Donald Trump survey of greatest presidents indicates impeachment really is a scar on a president’s legacy—which should please House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who all but stated that was her goal. Trump’s impeachment seems to have made the topic fresh enough to have tainted (or re-tainted) the legacies of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. And, perhaps nominally Andrew Johnson.
As noted in my book “Abuse of Power,” one day after Trump’s acquittal in the first impeachment over non-criminal articles, an angry Pelosi said at a press conference: “You’re impeached forever. You’re never getting rid of that scar.”
In an interview for the book, Robert Ray, one of Trump’s attorneys in the impeachment trial noted, “What also, I think, lasts forever is the judgment of acquittal.”
Trump was actually twice acquitted in Senate impeachment trials, but that might indeed have less of an aura than being twice impeached—which was likely a big contributor to Trump’s first ranking as a former president at 41.
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