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So you think Congress has the power to remove a sitting president?
You must have skipped civics apparently.
Impeachment involves both houses. And requires a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate.
Congress wont impeach, they know the optics of doing that leading up to a the 2020 election will be bad.
Given what little information could be gleaned from Mueller's report today, the optics could also make the Congressional Republicans appear to be shielding a known felon (aka, unindicted co-conspirator) which will most certainly not help them in 2020. I believe that, as happened with Nixon, there is a point at which the evidence against Trump will be so compelling that the Republican Congressional leaders who have a conscience will go to Trump and tell him that he has two choices--resign or be impeached and removed from office. There are Republicans with standards (just as there are Democrats I wouldn't trust to take out my garbage). (I do not include the chinless and spineless wonder, Mitch McConnell, in the "with standards" group.) And, remember that as the Democrats hold 48 of the Senate seats, and the Republicans hold 52 (the numbers keep changing thanks to cases of election malfeasance), they only need 12 Republicans to change their minds on the subject. Murkowski, and Collins come to mind as early possibilities. Even if they didn't get to 60 votes for, the political damage would be such that Trump would almost have to resign.
I do not think it will go as far as actual impeachment--neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want it to go that far. It's never gone that far in our history. Two Presidents have been indicted, but neither was convicted by the Senate. However, it will take a stern "talking to" to get Trump to put down his cheeseburger long enough to listen and understand.
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