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Originally Posted by Damien
It would have happened had Nixon not resigned to avoid it though. He simply jumped before he was pushed.
I agree it won't happen though. For a start neither the Republicans nor Democrats seem to want it. At the moment the Democrats probably prefer him to stay in place.
The idea that a Militia could seriously challenge the power of the U.S government these days is a bit unbelievable though. I am also skeptical that many would take up arms to the cost life imprisonment/death to defend Trump from impeachment, especially if the impeachment is coming from illegality being discovered. No one took up arms to defend Nixon or Clinton from impeachment.
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You're forgetting, the President is the Commander and chief of the army. He could order them to stand down, are they obliged to obey?
What's the actual process to physically removing the President from the White House/Power.... ?
Are the Secret Service ordered to stand down, who gives them that order ?
With Nixon resigning, so impeachment did not apply. He also lost extensive support.
Clinton was cleared by the Senate, so full impeachment was not fulfilled. Clinton survived.
There was no need for some kind of civil unrest in either case because the removal process never actually took place.
So while Clinton was Impeached in House of Representatives, he was acquitted in the Senate because of the two-thirds of the Senate — 67 votes needed — is a very high threshold that’s almost never achieved on any matter that’s remotely partisan, which is why Trump is in no danger, even if Democrats take ALL 10 Republican Senate Seats up for re-election after the Mid-terms, the numbers just are not there, there would have to be very damning evidence of a high crime for Trump to lose Republican Senators support.
The Founding Fathers did not make it easy for Congress to remove a democratically elected president from power. Bill Clinton's Impeachment proceedings showed that, even after he was technically guilty of lying of having his affair.