[ExI] Trump suggests not letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 21:20, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> >...So now you're relying on impeachment to enforce the constitution. A
> thing which, as you said, has never been successful (as in, resulted in the
> removal of a president from office) and is never likely to be.
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> Ja.
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> Impeachment is equivalent to indictment.  It has been done successfully,
> twice.  But you can indict a ham sandwich.  If we say that impeachment must
> result in removal from office to be successful, it implies that a successful
> indictment must result in a conviction.  But the defendant might be
> innocent, which is why we have a trial.  If the defendant is innocent, then
> a conviction is a failure.


You are avoiding the point. If impeachment is the ultimate recourse for enforcing the constitution, and impeachment is never likely to remove the president from office, then nothing stops him from ignoring the constitution.
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Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein