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erpowers

(9,350 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2019, 01:03 PM Nov 2019

Robert Reich: Would the Founding Fathers Impeach Trump?

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Robert Reich: Would the Founding Fathers Impeach Trump? (Original Post) erpowers Nov 2019 OP

In the time of our founding fathers tazkcmo Nov 2019 #1

That's about how I'd see it Vogon_Glory Nov 2019 #2

The Founding Fathers. . . Collimator Nov 2019 #3

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)

1. In the time of our founding fathers

Reply to erpowers (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2019, 02:42 PM

Nov 2019

Trump would have been challenged to a duel and killed.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)

2. That's about how I'd see it

Reply to tazkcmo (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 5, 2019, 03:05 PM

Nov 2019

Unless someone chased him down 1780’s New York with a raised walking stick. There were a lot of rough-and-ready folk Orange Man would not have wanted to cross.

I’m sure that Aaron Burr wasn’t the only duelist with notches on his flintlock pistols back then.

Collimator

(1,639 posts)

3. The Founding Fathers. . .

Reply to erpowers (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2019, 03:11 PM

Nov 2019

. . .would have shaken their heads in confusion first after listening to Trump's "communication" style. Then they would have had him led off to a nice little sanitorium. No matter that they were around before the 25th Amendment.

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