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Yavin4

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Fri Dec 18, 2020, 06:39 PM Dec 2020

Happy Anniversary, President Trump!

On this day a year ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach you. Making you the third U.S. president that was impeached.

The impeachment of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was initiated on December 18, 2019, when the House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate acquitted Trump of these charges on February 5, 2020.[2]

Trump's impeachment came after a formal House inquiry alleged that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony. The inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's political opponent Joe Biden and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump
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Happy Anniversary, President Trump! (Original Post) Yavin4 Dec 2020 OP
Perfect phone call underpants Dec 2020 #1
Interesting. I was thinking how, until we had the smoking gun question everything Dec 2020 #2

question everything

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2. Interesting. I was thinking how, until we had the smoking gun
Fri Dec 18, 2020, 06:44 PM
Dec 2020

I was hesitant about impeachment, knowing that the senate would not convict him and that this would embolden him in the upcoming campaign. And yet it was not an issue.

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