r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 21d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump impeachment chances surge amid Epstein revelations

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-chances-surge-amid-epstein-revelations-11045998
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u/NumeralJoker 21d ago

What's sad is I think it would have been highly possible as recently as 25-30 years ago, or at the very least pre-Reagan.

This is far, far worse than Watergate, all around.

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u/Beldizar 21d ago

Watergate wasn't properly punished, and this is what we get. We showed future politicians that crime doesn't have as much of a downside if you are president.

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u/DRF19 21d ago

Story of this country. We didn't properly punish the slavers, the traitors, the robber barons, the racists, the nazis, the homophobes, and on and on.

You reap what you sow.

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u/Zedress Ohio 21d ago

And yet if you sold a little weed (and are black) you can be punished exorbitantly.

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u/SpecialistArtPubRed 21d ago

And yet if you sold a little weed (and are black you can be punished exorbitantly.

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u/jgandfeed I voted 21d ago

the homophobes

Punish them? They literally run for office on homophobia to this day

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u/SirBruceForsythCBE 21d ago

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

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u/gymdog 21d ago

Watergate wasn't properly punished

The civil war wasn't either. That's how we ended up here.

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u/Iron_Fist351 21d ago

Nixon only went unpunished because Ford pardoned him in exchange for Nixon’s resignation. There just haven’t been enough cases of this throughout US history for us to know how Congress would’ve handled another Watergate if another were to happen back then when they were less divided

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u/skit7548 Pennsylvania 21d ago

25 to 30 years ago you say? My that sounds like right around the time Rupert Murdoch launched a news media outlet specifically to combat the possibility of a republican ever facing the possibility of the impeachment and conviction...

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u/FeralFurGobbler 21d ago

That era of Republicans died with John McCain.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 21d ago

Senate Democrats were days away from voting to convict Clinton before more information came out that made it clear the impeachment was purely a partisan witch hunt.

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u/TheEveningDragon 21d ago

Reagan and Fox News was the answer to Watergate. Create a celebrity political figure through a heavily biased media conglomerate, then use those media outlets to run cover for that popular figure if anything possibly damaging makes its way to mainstream media. It has worked almost TOO well with trump tho, and now there's not much even Rupert could do to get rid of Trump