Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Sunday predicted that Democrats will impeach Trump for a third time between his two presidencies if they take control of the House after the November midterm elections.

Jordan suggested in an interview on “Cats Roundtable,” the WABC 770 AM radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis, that Democrats will take the legislative branch’s oversight capability “and turn it into a weaponization of government.”

“They say they’re not going to, but we know they will –– they’ll do a third impeachment of President Trump,” Jordan told the host. “But that’s just part of it. They’re going to investigate the first family, they’re going to investigate cabinet secretaries.”

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      4 days ago

      Laws or enforcement doesn’t seem to mean anything in the USA any more.

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    Impeachment means nothing if the Senate does not remove him from office. Which they won’t because the corporate overlords are making money hand over fist becoming the worlds gas station.

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    What did the first two impeachments accomplish? His term wasn’t cut short and he faced no consequences at all. Maybe democrats think the impeachments count as a “black mark” on his record or some dumb thing like that, but in practice they didn’t matter. Democrats had the opportunity to prosecute trump after 2020 with plenty to prosecute him for, including Jan 6th, and yet they sat around and did nothing for four years. I’m sick of this dog and pony show.

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    Accountability is by default. The fact that MAGA tries to avoid it, taking rather than fairly trading, is the problem.

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    Why would a Republican make statements that make people vote Democrat?

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    Impeachment? This dude should be in an old folks home. He’s barely lucid, and they’ve been doing a Weekend at Bernies for 2 years with his barely there corpse.

    If they weren’t complicit in his crimes, he’d have been removed from office a long time ago.

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    I hope the impeachment process takes just 2-3 days. Here’s 100 reasons, just shut up and vote.

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      Any time and effort they spend fighting impeachment is less time they spend fucking up everything else.

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      Literally everyone I knew thought impeachments automatically kicked you out of office until his first one, and it’s insane that they don’t do that.

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        Basically everything requires agreement between the house and the senate. The house impeaches, and the senate convicts, thereby agreeing with the house. If they disagree, it stops there just like any other legislation.

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          I feel like the big official sounding word of “impeachment” should be reserved for after the Senate convicts. Otherwise it’s just a meaningless gesture on behalf of the House.

          I began searching to see how Bill Clinton was removed, then I realized the Senate acquitted him and his term naturally ended later that month. Andrew Johnson also wasn’t convicted.

          This mechanism of removing the president from office has literally never worked before! The whole impeachment process is an overhyped nothing burger!

          Edit: I should add that all three presidents had the majority of Senate vote to convict at least one of the impeachment charges, but they needed a 2/3rds supermajority because why not?

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            Clinton’s impeachment is why not. People forget that the blow job he lied about getting that he was impeached for wasn’t what he was being investigated for. The investigation was for a supposed shady land deal that turned out to be completely above board. They just kept desperately searching for anything they could because they knew they couldn’t win the next election.

            The 2/3rds rule makes it hard to convict so that type of purely political move isn’t a normal function of congress.

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      It made MAGA jump through hoops in a panic, and the entire world was talking about Trump’s corruption. That’s not nothing.

      And history will NEVER forget it.