Impeachment Lite News Today

  It appears that some Democrats have come to terms with the inevitability that another impeachment circus won’t work out in their favor. Several left-leaning lawmakers are trying to convince their colleagues to vote for censuring former President Donald Trump instead of attempting to convict him during impeachment proceedings. It appears they are willing to settle for Diet Impeachment™ rather than the real thing. The Hill noted, “members of the upper chamber are pitching their colleagu...

Youre going to need a large voter turnout, and i think our campaign is that campaign. >> one day after the upcoming iowa caucuses on february 4th, trump is set to deliver his state of the union address. we have seen this before. in january 1999, bill clinton delivered his state of the union address while his impeachment trial was under way, but he did not mention his trial at all during his 77-minute speech. trump, however, has been more than willing to discuss his impeachment and to openly ques...

Going forward. he will forever be a president who was impeached. the at the same time, hes trying to trivialize it, impeachment lite. hes not participating in the process unlike the clinton and nixon white houses where hes just openly defying subpoenas, not supplying witnesses and so on. hes trying to make impeachment not about a referendum on his actions as president but rather claiming its the democrats making judgments about him as a person and also his supporters. he was striking the republi...

Impeachment-lite. its impeachment-lite. thats why, with richard nixon, i just see it as a very dark era, very dark, very -- oh, you dont even like to think. i dont know about you, but im having a good time, its crazy. so, im not worried. im not worried. because its always good when you dont do anything wrong, you get impeached, that may be a record that will last forever. >> he has talked about impeachment before. a lot. back in 08, he talked about it in relation to the impressive new speaker of...

Transcript. no bribe on the call, no pressure. >> here are the facts on shifty schiff, dishonest guy, makes up standards. he said the president of ukraine repeatedly declared that there was no pressure, but he didnt want to say that. we said, say it. say it, you crooked bastard, say it. [cheers and applause] remember bribery and this and that. where are they? they said these two things are not even a crime. this is the lightest, weakest impeachment, this is impeachment lite. [laughter] jesse: la...

Transcript. no bribe on the call, no pressure. >> here are the facts on shifty schiff, dishonest guy, makes up standards. he said the president of ukraine repeatedly declared that there was no pressure, but he didnt want to say that. we said, say it. say it, you crooked bastard, say it. [cheers and applause] remember bribery and this and that. where are they? they said these two things are not even a crime. this is the lightest, weakest impeachment, this is impeachment lite. [laughter] jesse: la...

Transcript. no bribe on the call, no pressure. >> here are the facts on shifty schiff, dishonest guy, makes up standards. he said the president of ukraine repeatedly declared that there was no pressure, but he didnt want to say that. we said, say it. say it, you crooked bastard, say it. [cheers and applause] remember bribery and this and that. where are they? they said these two things are not even a crime. this is the lightest, weakest impeachment, this is impeachment lite. [laughter] jesse: la...

Impeachment with facts and evidence. this is bird shot. >> come on! get real. be serious. we know exactly what happened here. 17 witnesses. its uncontradicted. >> they all confirm that donald trump pressured a foreign government to target an american citizen for political gain. >> reporter: president trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. he calls it "impeachment lite." >> the president is wrong. >> reporter: madam speaker, you yourself accused him of bribery. why did yo...

Downplaying this impeachment. at the rally last night in impeach, the president was calling this impeachment-lite, called the articles of impeachment pathetic and flimsy, downplaying it essentially, almost mocking democrats for not coming up with something stronger, but privately, don, were told that the president has been griping about the fact that he is all but certain to become the third president in history to be impeached. this is not a stain on his legacy that he wants. its something, in ...

About this investigation. the president is also down playing these two articles of impeachment calling them flimsy, pathetic and ridiculous. >> you saw their so-called articles of impeachment today. people are saying theyre not even a crime. what happened? all of these horrible things, remember bribery and this and that. where are they? they sent these two things. theyre not even a crime. this is the lightest, weakest impeachment. this is impeachment lite. >> reporter: you can hear in the presid...