New York Times (April 23)
“We can wait to reject this appalling worst-president-ever in the next election. Impeachment would drive the whole country even further apart. The Republicans in the Senate would never go for it anyway. And by the time we staggered to the inevitable stalemate, it’d be well into 2020. Let’s just vote the sucker out.”
Tags: Appalling, Election, Impeachment, President, Reject, Republicans, Stalemate, Trump, Vote 2020, Worst
Washington Post (April 18)
“The report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is not what the American public had been led to expect.” As a next step, “the House Judiciary Committee must hear directly from Mr. Mueller.” They also need access to the complete, unredacted report. Ultimately, lawmakers will “face a difficult balancing act between the many valid reasons to regard impeachment as a last resort, and their responsibility to ensure that no one is above the law.”
Tags: Access, Impeachment, Last resort, Lawmakers, Mueller, Responsibility, Special counsel, Unredacted report
Bloomberg (March 3)
The submission of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “long-awaited final report…will be only the start of an explosive chain of events. There will be a struggle in Congress, on cable TV and social media and probably in the courts over how much must be disclosed. There also will be an epic political fight over whether the findings implicate President Donald Trump in wrongdoing that may even merit his impeachment.”
Tags: Congress, Courts, Epic, Explosive, Fight, Impeachment, Mueller, Report, Struggle, Trump, Wrongdoing
Washington Post (January 6)
Democrats must consider “the end game.” If their “ultimate objective is impeachment and removal from office, House Democrats will be attempting to perform a political miracle. If the final goal is censure, however, it will be far easier to send a clear message to the American people that progressives stand for the rule of law and good government.”
Tags: Censure, Democrats, Good government, Impeachment, Miracle, Objective, Progressives, Rule of law, U.S.
The Guardian (October 17)
“If Brazil’s recent decline could be plotted in the falling popularity of its presidents, Michel Temer represents the bottom of the curve.” Overall, his popularity now sits at 3%, but “among under 24-year-olds, Temer’s approval hit zero.” Brazil’s president “has been charged with corruption, racketeering and obstruction of justice.” He may conceivably “escape impeachment, but the ongoing political crisis undermines democracy and opens the door to authoritarian hardliners.”
Tags: Approval, Brazil, Corruption, Crisis, Democracy, Impeachment, Obstruction of justice, Popularity, Racketeering, Temer, Zero
Chicago Tribune (June 15)
“Donald Trump should be extremely worried about his presidency.” It’s easy to see why he “is still ruminating about firing Mueller,” the special counsel, even though that “would be politically disastrous, fueling impeachment fever…. His presidency is imperiled so long as Mueller compels witnesses to testify, accumulates written evidence and traces the myriad of ties between the Trump team and Russians.”
Tags: Disastrous, Evidence, Impeachment, Imperiled, Mueller, Russia, Special counsel, Testify, Trump, U.S., Witnesses, Worried
LA Times (June 10)
We believe Donald Trump’s “election and continuing tenure as commander in chief are bad for the nation. We see no evidence that he will grow into the job. We look forward to the day when he is no longer president.” Still, it is not yet “time to draw up articles of impeachment.” Barring “some intervening revelation of intolerable action on the president’s part,” the investigations should be completed before beginning the “move toward impeachment.”
Tags: Bad, Election, Impeachment, Intolerable, Investigations, President, Trump
Korea Times (March 13)
Former President Park Geun-hye continues to display an “irresponsible attitude.” Despite a ruling of the Constitutional Court upholding her impeachment, Park “indicated that she would not accept the court ruling.” But it is not her choice. The ruling “is final and unchallengeable…. If Park had any sense of responsibility as a head of state and had felt appreciation toward her supporters, she should have told them that it was time to accept the court ruling and asked them to stop holding violent protests.”
Wall Street Journal (November 20)
“South Korea would benefit most from a thorough investigation that prompts political reform rather than a rush to impeachment.” Furthermore, securing President Park’s resignation or impeachment “could reverse many hard-fought decisions that the Korean electorate gave her a mandate to make,” like closing down the Kaesong Industrial Complex, deploying a U.S. missile-defense system and sharing intelligence with Japan to counter the North Korean threat.
Tags: Impeachment, Intelligence, Investigation, Japan, Kaesong Industrial Complex, North Korean, Political reform, Resignation, South Korea, U.S. missile defense
New York Times (July 31)
“Coming on top of the Zika epidemic, reports of terrible conditions in the Olympic Village, low ticket sales, police violence, a suspended president facing impeachment and a Russian team depleted by the doping scandal, the news of the contaminated waters certify that the Rio Olympics will be one of the most disorderly and woebegone in the 120 years since the modern Games began in Athens.”
Tags: Athens, Contaminated waters, Disorderly, Doping scandal, Epidemic, Impeachment, Olympic Village, Police violence, Rio Olympics, Russia, Ticket sales, Zika
