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Opinion: The nightmare scenario for Democrats on Trump's corruption
The Plum Line Opinion
The nightmare scenario for Democrats on Trumps corruption
By Greg Sargent, Opinion writer covering national politics
May 7 at 10:37 AM
The administrations categorical refusal to release President Trumps tax returns heightens the difficult question Democrats face, and raises the prospect of a nightmare scenario both in political and substantive terms.
Democrats must now choose between continuing to pursue the returns through conventional channels, which carries some risk of failure, and getting serious about impeachment hearings, which would likely minimize that risk to the greatest extent possible.
If Democrats go with the first, it raises at least the possibility that they could squander months in court, only to fail to secure Trumps returns at the end at which point theyd decide its too late to pursue impeachment, because 2020 would be looming.
To be sure, there are many other reasons to initiate an impeachment inquiry, beyond overcoming resistance to releasing the returns. But this dispute throws the broader choice Democrats face into sharper relief.
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
The nightmare scenario for Democrats on Trumps corruption
By Greg Sargent, Opinion writer covering national politics
May 7 at 10:37 AM
The administrations categorical refusal to release President Trumps tax returns heightens the difficult question Democrats face, and raises the prospect of a nightmare scenario both in political and substantive terms.
Democrats must now choose between continuing to pursue the returns through conventional channels, which carries some risk of failure, and getting serious about impeachment hearings, which would likely minimize that risk to the greatest extent possible.
If Democrats go with the first, it raises at least the possibility that they could squander months in court, only to fail to secure Trumps returns at the end at which point theyd decide its too late to pursue impeachment, because 2020 would be looming.
To be sure, there are many other reasons to initiate an impeachment inquiry, beyond overcoming resistance to releasing the returns. But this dispute throws the broader choice Democrats face into sharper relief.
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
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Opinion: The nightmare scenario for Democrats on Trump's corruption (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2019
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mopinko
(69,806 posts)1. nancy is right. they are baiting us. daily.
why they would take such a risky approach is sorta obvious. it's their only fucking hope.
impeachment is the only way to stop them from running out the clock.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)2. They need to stop talking about what they can or cannot achieve in the end.
They need to start House committee hearings. Every day, day after day, hearing after hearing. The end-game is unimportant. What we need to achieve right now is saying Trump's name and 'congressional hearings' in the same sentence as many tmes as possible.