TRUMP IS JUST SIX SENATE VOTES AWAY FROM IMPEACHMENT.

[elleng]

This article first appeared on the Brookings Institution site.

'At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: “Mr. President, we don’t have the votes,” at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.

This scenario actually occurred forty-three years ago this summer when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked into the Oval Office and told Republican President Richard Nixon that they didn’t have the votes in the Senate to save his presidency.

Following impeachment in the House, a trial takes place in the Senate. Conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate and by my count there are already twelve senators who have shown a willingness to take on the president when they believe he is in the wrong.

If you add that to the forty-eight Democrats in the Senate (who have shown no inclination to work with this President), Donald Trump could be six votes away from conviction in the Senate.'>>>

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-just-six-senate-votes-away-impeachment-651857?piano_t=1

[Va Lefty]

1. The House has to send articles of impeachment to the Senate

not gonna happen with this House

[GeoWilliam750]

2. If you assume those 12 and no other changes in the Senate in 2018

They would need 7 more votes. A two thirds or greater number of senators is required to remove him from office. 66 would be one shy of two thirds

[onenote]

3. The fact that 12 repub senators have taken on Trump on occasion is a far cry

from assuming that they'd all, or even most of them, would vote to remove him from office. A very very far cry.

[Doug the Dem]

4. Agreed

This Senate? No. And not the 2019 version either.

[yellowcanine]

5. House has to impeach first, then the trial in the Senate with a 2/3 vote to make it stick.

Not going to happen. Nice pipe dream though.