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Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:33 PM Jan 2021

Expand the Impeachment charges

to include Trump's misdeeds in trying to change the election results in Georgia. There's the Raffensperger phone call and now the Rosen / Clark attempt to undermine the results .
Seems like enough there to support another entire Article of Impeachment?

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Expand the Impeachment charges (Original Post) Pantagruel Jan 2021 OP
But it pales in comparison to the January 6th attack on the Capitol and on police... secondwind Jan 2021 #1
The hits just keep on coming. gibraltar72 Jan 2021 #2
They can't Botany Jan 2021 #3
I think they can Pantagruel Jan 2021 #7
The article does refer (w language "includes, but not limited to") the Georgia extortion call. nt FreepFryer Jan 2021 #4
It's all connected to the coup attempt. kentuck Jan 2021 #5
His phone call in regards to the Georgia election Hav Jan 2021 #6
 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
7. I think they can
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:46 PM
Jan 2021

but it will probably be challenged. The Raffensperger extortion was timely, not sure about the Rosen charges timing. Maybe an entirely new Articles would have to pass the House?


https://www.rollcall.com/2020/01/10/even-after-the-senate-trial-begins-the-house-could-still-add-more-impeachment-articles/

Hav

(5,969 posts)
6. His phone call in regards to the Georgia election
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:45 PM
Jan 2021

was explicitly mentioned in the impeachment article but it seems it wasn't a separate charge, it was one of the examples that led to inciting the violence. I guess it was mainly about the insurrection.
Maybe a separate article just for trying to overturn election results would have had a higher chance to get the needed votes given the recent news that make this case very clear.

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