Trump Impeachment Archives

Apparently, Proxy Voting Has Its Rewards

April 29, 2022 Buck Banks

“I like being able to brag to my grandchildren, I got to vote to impeach Donald Trump six times.”

— Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), quoted by Insider, on proxy voting.

Professor Says Trump Lawyers Misrepresented His Words

February 10, 2021 Buck Banks

“The worst part is the three places where they said I said something when, in fact, I said the opposite.”

— Michigan State University professor Brian Kalt, “a constitutional law professor whose work is cited extensively by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers in their impeachment defense brief says his work has been seriously misrepresented,” NPR reports.

Kinzinger Calls on GOP to Hold Trump Accountable

February 10, 2021 Buck Banks

“If the GOP doesn’t take a stand, the chaos of the past few months, and the past few years, could quickly return. The future of our party and our country depends on confronting what happened — so it doesn’t happen again.”

— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argues in the Washington Post why his fellow Republicans must hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

A new CBS News poll finds a 56% majority of Americans would like the Senate to vote to convict President Trump, and the same percentage say he encouraged violence at the Capitol — views that are still somewhat linked to Americans’ presidential votes in 2020, reflecting ongoing partisan division.

Cheney: Trump Has No Leadership Role in GOP

February 8, 2021 Buck Banks

“Somebody who has provoked an attack on the United States Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in five people dying, who refused to stand up immediately when he was asked to stop the violence, that is a person who does not have a role as the leader of our party going forward. We should not be embracing the former president.”

— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), in an interview on Fox News.

Cheney Cites Oath, Constitution to Justify Impeachment Vote

February 8, 2021 Buck Banks

“The oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment and it doesn’t bend to partisanship, it doesn’t bend to political pressure.”

— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by The Hill.

A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds 56% of Americans say Donald Trump should be convicted at his second impeachment trial and barred from holding office again, and 43% say he should not be.

Americans Split on Convicting Trump

February 5, 2021 Buck Banks

50% to 45%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 50% of Americans say the U.S. Senate should convict former President Donald Trump while 45% say the Senate should not convict him.

Prepare the Perjury Trap!

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Buck Banks

Donald Trump has been known, on occasion, to speechify,
And now he’ll have a chance his actions to justify.
So ready the fact-checkers,
The pundits and lie-counters —
It’s Impeachment Time, and Trump is going to testify.

Congressional Aides Call for Trump’s Impeachment

February 4, 2021 Buck Banks

370

“More than 370 Democratic congressional aides will issue an unusual public appeal on Wednesday, imploring senators — in some cases their own bosses — to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting a violent ‘attack on our workplace’ that threatened the peaceful transition of power,” the New York Times reports.

“I like being able to brag to my grandchildren, I got to vote to impeach Donald Trump six times.”

— Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), quoted by Insider, on proxy voting.

“The worst part is the three places where they said I said something when, in fact, I said the opposite.”

— Michigan State University professor Brian Kalt, “a constitutional law professor whose work is cited extensively by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers in their impeachment defense brief says his work has been seriously misrepresented,” NPR reports.

“If the GOP doesn’t take a stand, the chaos of the past few months, and the past few years, could quickly return. The future of our party and our country depends on confronting what happened — so it doesn’t happen again.”

— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argues in the Washington Post why his fellow Republicans must hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

56%

— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), in an interview on Fox News.

“The oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment and it doesn’t bend to partisanship, it doesn’t bend to political pressure.”

— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by The Hill.

56%

A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds 56% of Americans say Donald Trump should be convicted at his second impeachment trial and barred from holding office again, and 43% say he should not be.

50% to 45%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 50% of Americans say the U.S. Senate should convict former President Donald Trump while 45% say the Senate should not convict him.

370

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East. And we’re not fixing our roads in this country. How stupid is it? We’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even.”

— President Trump, speaking in 2020.

— Derek Thompson

“The defense secretary [Pete Hegseth] appears unable to approach matters of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility.”

— Peter Wehner

Numerati

56%

G. Elliot Morris: “According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. … When ignoring ‘don’t know’ respondents, 56% disapprove.”

92,000

“The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, a sign that the job market continues to struggle across a broad range of sectors,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The unemployment ticked slightly higher to 4.4%.”

72%

A new Fox News poll finds 72% of independents disapprove of President Trump’s job performance and 78% think he is focused on the wrong issues.

+47,000

54% to 41%