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

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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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    Yes. That’s the idea asshole.

    Consequences for crimes.

    Fuck around, find out.

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    I thought you dumbasses professed to be the “law and order” party? Guess that was just another big fucking lie like all your other claims…

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      The biggest bullshit is that legally speaking, he will get away with everything he did. the supreme court declared that everything the president does is legal. that was some major bullshit.

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        if what the president is doing now is “legal” then the new president can “legally” have the old president marched into a meat grinder.

        “sorry bro, but it was an official act of the president, nothing we can do about it”

        • what Biden should have done when the supreme court decided that. immediately and illegally expand the supreme court or illegally arrest the conservative judges that voted for that. so the new supreme court would reverse that stupid decision.

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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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      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. It’s never a bad idea to put an evil dictator’s crimes on the permanent written record for all time.

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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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      I sure hope it doesn’t end with just impeaching donnie, either.

      All of his accomplices should be hounded with lawsuits and prison time for the rest of their miserable lives.

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      Impeachment itself means nothing. But they can open investigations into all sorts of stuff under the guise of impeachment preparation. They can bring everything to light and leak it all to the press. Done correctly, the whole first family can be dragged through the gutters forever.

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        Done correctly

        Two little words doing some heavy lifting there.

        Dems couldn’t “done correctly” a fuck in a brothel.

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      Removal of his head from his shoulders, and same for the rest of his administration. Fucking INSANE the word “treason” isn’t used more.

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        People get all pedantic about the exact legal definition of treason, forgetting that the word has a common understanding of betraying one’s country.

        We don’t need to litigate the specifics, trump has done treason.

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      Oh, the Democrats wont hesitate to impeach him. They know it gets them brownie points, while nothing tangible actually happens.

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          Maybe they should send registered Democrat voters another text message saying, “omg isn’t Trump bad?! Send me money” /s

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          Impeach and remove him from office for crimes perpetrated as the representative of the people. That’s just the start of what should happen.

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          Most of them should recieve the harshest justice a mob can dispense to traitors. Neoliberals are conservatives and need to be dealt with as brutally as any other fascist.

          Sherman’s work is not done yet.

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            That doesn’t really answer my question. If Democrats win majorities in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterms, what should they do? I’m assuming they won’t have enough votes to remove Trump from office, just like last time.

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      Oh yeah, MAGA is sure that they’re going to be investigated and imprisoned because they know how guilty they are, and they wouldn’t hesitate to go on the attack if the situation were reversed.

      Like one Nazi General said, after hearing that the Russians had beaten the Nazis, crossed the Volga, and were marching toward Berlin: “If they treat us half as bad as we treated them, we’re in big trouble.”

      That’s how MAGA sees it, even if we know that Dems have been too insipid and feckless to fight back in the past. The new crop of Dems coming after the Midterms won’t have that same cowardly attitude. They’re pissed as Hell, and looking for scalps, and nobody knows it, and FEARS it, more than MAGA.

      We should INDULGE them.

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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.