Opinion: Trump’s 'scandalous harangues' are an impeachable offense
By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist May 3 The landing of the Mueller report after the administration’s initial misdirection revived a debate about whether President Trump’s actions are impeachable.In 1868, the House impeached President Andrew Johnson because of his firing of Edwin Stanton as secretary of war and, at root, Johnson’s thwarting of Reconstruction.
Loud threats and bitter menaces in front of jeering crowds? Intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues? House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy concurred that the investigation was an attempted “coup.” GOP lawmakers just described Mueller to Politico as egotistical, duplicitous, partisan, “petty and peevish.”
When the framers used the phrase “crimes and misdemeanors,” borrowed from English law, they weren’t using misdemeanors in the sense of trespassing, or other crimes below felonies. They were talking about bad behavior; impeachment, James Madison wrote, was protection against a president’s “incapacity, negligence, or perfidy.”
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