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[QUOTE]Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that President Trump’s first weeks in office have been deeply troubling, but offer no grounds for impeachment.
The House minority leader was responding to recent comments from Rep. Maxine Waters, a fellow California Democrat, who said last week that her “greatest desire is to lead [Trump] right into impeachment.”
Pelosi was more cautious, saying the new president has been reckless and incompetent but hasn’t done anything criminal to merit his removal by Congress.
“[There] are grounds for displeasure and unease in the public about the performance of this president, who has acted in a way that is strategically incoherent, that is incompetent and that is reckless,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “And that is not grounds for impeachment.
“When and if he breaks the law, that is when something like that would come up. But that’s not the subject of today.”
Waters, appearing on the dais beside Pelosi, clarified her earlier comments, saying they came in response to the “questions and pleas” she’s hearing from constituents about Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and his friendly relationship with the Kremlin, among other contentious issues.
Any threat to Trump’s presidency has been self-inflicted, Waters said, while stipulating that Congress must step in at some point if he continues down the path of aggressive and unilateral policymaking he’s adopted in the first two weeks.
“I have not called for the impeachment — yet. He’s doing it himself,” Waters said.
“I think he is leading himself into that kind of position, where folks will begin to ask, ‘What are we going to do?’ And the answer’s going to be, eventually, we’ve got to do something about him. We cannot continue to have a president who’s acting in this manner. It is dangerous to the United States of America.”
Trump has set a dizzying pace in his first weeks in office, issuing a string of executive orders designed to eliminate many of the legislative achievements of President Obama and the Democrats, including ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Last week, a federal judge said Trump had overstepped when he put a blanket travel ban on refugees and most travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Pelosi said she’d been optimistic that Democrats in Congress would be able to forge an effective working relationship with Trump, but his initial actions have quickly eroded those hopes.
“While it’s only a couple of weeks since the inauguration … we’ve seen nothing that we can work — that I can work — with President [Trump] on,” Pelosi said. “And I’m disappointed, because I thought that there might be some interest because of what he said in the campaign.”
Monday’s press conference was called to hammer Trump’s recent executive orders vowing to scale back regulations on Wall Street banks, including those installed by Democrats with the 2010 passage of Dodd-Frank.
Pelosi said Trump’s actions are evidence that his campaign promise to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of the middle class was merely “a hoax.”
“President Trump and his billionaire Cabinet and his advisers … are putting forth a Wall Street-first policy at the expense of the American people,” she said. “They want to take us back.”[/QUOTE]
Yet.
I get the impression that everyone is just getting sick of him.
Good to know that even though Trump is doing horrible stuff, he at least is doing it legally.
I worry that nothing will be done about the behavior of Trump and his administration until it's too late. I sure hope at that point they don't do irreversable damage to the country and its citizens.
[QUOTE=David29;51790637]I get the impression that everyone is just getting sick of him.[/QUOTE]
depends. with a guy like Trump you either remove him to assuage public opinion, or consolidate power so that opinion doesn't matter. so if Republicans don't act towards the latter soon they're probably planning to go for the former. at least that's how it looks to me.
You would think there would be a way to impeach a president if they are not mentally fit for the job.
A man who throws fits when he doesn't get what he wants like a 5 year old shouldn't be running a whole country.
[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;51790792]You would think there would be a way to impeach a president if they are not mentally fit for the job.
A man who throws fits when he doesn't get what he wants like a 5 year old shouldn't be running a whole country.[/QUOTE]
Other countries have motions of no confidence, and the US has on very, very rare occasions had them, but there's no rule about what happens when a motion of no confidence is made so the person being judged can just shrug and carry on.
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;51790611]Yet.[/QUOTE]
I mean, you could go murder a guy tomorrow. You just haven't done it yet.
[QUOTE=Smoot;51791030]I mean, you could go murder a guy tomorrow. You just haven't done it yet.[/QUOTE]
Trump willingly tries to implement unconstitutional bans.
[QUOTE=Smoot;51791030]I mean, you could go murder a guy tomorrow. You just haven't done it yet.[/QUOTE]
trump is well on the way to starting several international crises via breaking ties with longstanding allies and trade partners because his edgy narcissistic businessman attitude makes him hang up on phone calls and twitter-bitch about entire goddamn countries. Bannon even said we could be at war with china soon, and that's after trump has visibly offered to mobilize the US military into fucking mexico and even 'sending in the feds' to do (what????) in chicago, showing absolutely no restraint nor knowledge in the situations in and around the country. He constantly whines about literally all of the media being false and that he's the only bastion of truth, but he doesn't even seem to be aware of what the fuck our governmental checks and balances are and keeps tweeting about how unfair it is that the judicial branch is trying to strike down his shitty ban
don't give me that 'theoretically anything can happen but it's unlikely' bullshit, we're just [i]weeks[/i] into this circus and it feels like he's actively lighting the tent on fire
no spine at all
[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;51790792]You would think there would be a way to impeach a president if they are not mentally fit for the job.
A man who throws fits when he doesn't get what he wants like a 5 year old shouldn't be running a whole country.[/QUOTE]
I wish the US had a vote of no confidence system. Though the only way I can see it not being abused would be for it to be a referendum instead of leaving it to a party controlled House or Senate.
idk throwing the country in to economical turmoil to build a giant monument to american stupidity on its southern border and ruining country relations is impeachable imho
I think they just don't want to cry wolf. If they throw around that word too much, it'll take the power away from later on when they have a real case. After all, it'll get absolutely no where until Republicans are on board as well.
I think if the President has [I]disapproval[/I] rating of 60% or higher (or you know, approval of 40% or lower) for at least 6 months, that should be grounds for impeachment right there. A little more than half of the entire fucking nation doesn't like you or what you're doing, and hasn't for nearly half a year by that point. You're clearly doing something wrong. And you've continued fucking up that bad for far too long if you've kept it at 60% or higher for half a year.
How? He literally violates ethics laws by continuing to directly run his businesses, doesn't he?
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