Rep. Adam Schiff: Dont look for Trump impeachment soon

[oberliner]

Democrats feverishly looking to send President Trump to an early retirement should step back and take a deep breath, a leading California Democrat said Thursday.

With the GOP controlling both houses of Congress, nothing is going to happen until Republican members are presented with examples “of very specific conduct that says their vote (to impeach Trump) is justified,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, told The Chronicle’s editorial board. “My Republican colleagues are nowhere near ready to make that conclusion.”

On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of Hillsborough said in a tweet that the president “is showing signs of erratic behavior and mental instability that place the country in grave danger. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment,” which allows a president to be removed from office.

Other Democrats, including Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, and Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles County), have long called for Trump’s impeachment, and the number is likely to grow after the president’s controversial comments this week in response to the death of a protester during a white supremacist event in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Rep-Adam-Schiff-Don-t-look-for-Trump-11882912.php

[Willie Pep]

1. That is fine with me since I think Pence is way more dangerous.

Pence would likely be far more competent than Trump at getting legislation passed. Right now Trump is like an albatross around the neck of the GOP so that might help the Democrats in 2018.

[get the red out]

5. Pence would be better for their agenda

Which is why I have wondered why the Rs won't get Trump out of there?

[Willie Pep]

6. They are afraid of Trump's hardcore supporters.

They don't want angry and possibly armed Trump supporters showing up at their offices or even their homes.

[Funtatlaguy]

17. They want to get thru midterms first.

Then the knives come out for Trump and the praise for new Pres/Pastor Pence.

[Raven123]

19. I think you may be correct

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Interesting that Pence, not Trump, was the face of

the administration yesterday.

I'd have to agree with the posit that Rs are scared of Trump's crazy base because Pence would put a much more benign face on the GOP agenda and be a rubberstamp for every bill that crosses his desk. Rs must be secretly pining for him to call a cabinet meeting and invoke the 25th amendment removing Trump from his duties.

[tblue37]

21. +1. nt

[Not Ruth]

2. What about the subpoenas, indictments and grand juries?

I think that Schiff is messing with someone.

[oberliner]

3. What about them?

Trump himself has not been implicated in anything.

[Not Ruth]

4. You have no way of knowing that

The existence of a special counsel means that he has been implicated to some degree already. Whether or not it is to a degree that justifies further legal action is what is being investigated.

[oberliner]

12. True

I could definitely be wrong.

[JDC]

9. It feels like there is much implication

But no direct Exposed correlation. I think that is by design however; if specific proof re Trump himself were made public, he would do everything he could to close the investigation, including firing everyone involved in it. If it feels to him(trump) that it's just those around him that are in trouble, his literally insane ego will tell him he is once again untouchable because he's "like a really smart person." The reality is if he has done an illegal financial desl(s) w/ criminals, he'll be caught. He's not smart enough to cover his tracks so that the likes of Mueller's team won't find it. Mueller is going to make an ironclad case. No weaseling out of this one. It's gonna take time. Schiff is commenting on that imo

[exboyfil]

7. I think it is strategic for Democrats to not bring up impeachment

They should continue to say that the Republican leadership needs to do its job of executive oversight. Tie their failure to do their job around their necks.

I could imagine a speech like the Game of Thrones ruler Lyanna of Bear Island.

Ryan when Trump allied with racists you refused the call. McConnell when Trump told your constituents they should just move for jobs you refused the call. etc.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I think it has to be up to the Republicans

And we have a precedent.

[Achilleaze]

11. Comrade Casino* IS the ultimate republican family-values role model

He is everything they want to be, and apparently - based on the evidence -
republicans are delighted to have him serve as a model for their children and grandchildren. None of the republican so-called "spiritual leaders" has uttered so much as a peep of dissent about his overt racism or his sexual assault or any of the other sub-human, anti-American crap he has spewed; instead they hold him up as their super special "god-appointed" leader. That speaks volumes about who they really are. Let no one be deceived.

* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

[oberliner]

13. They don't like Hippy Jesus

Their version is totally different.

Not that Trump gives a crap about religion in the slightest.

[klook]

16. "Forget all that crap."

[oberliner]

18. Love it

Hits the nail right on the head.

[njhoneybadger]

20. They actually hate the Jesus of the new testament

and they hate liberals and progressives because they're more like that Jesus than they are

[tblue37]

22. He didn't look like that. Here is a link to a page with an image of what

He probably looked like (I can't copy and post the image ):

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/

[Achilleaze]

23. OMG - the nazi KKK repube KristoFascists would attack this guy (Christ) with bats & chains

[tblue37]

24. Thanks for bringing the image over from my link. I couldn't get

my little tablet to copy the image address.

[kentuck]

14. In the new norm, only Democratic Presidents are impeached.

Hillary would have already been impeached if she were in the White House.

[oberliner]

15. Very true

I try to imagine how Fox News would be covering current events if it was Hillary doing and saying the things Trump are saying and doing. Not to mention how Congressional Republicans would be responding.

[MrsCoffee]

25. Fuck impeachment. Lock him the fuck up.

[whathehell]

26. Invoking the 25th Amendment works for me too. n/t