#GOP: The Constitution's remedy is Congress and acts of impeachment and removal by trial in the Senate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
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#GOP: The Constitution's remedy is Congress and acts of impeachment and removal by trial in the Senate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/the-constitutions-answer-to-trumps-misconduct-remains-impeachment-not-criminal-prosecution/
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| 0:36.2 | We're discussing the complications to do with Donald Trump's candidacy for the nomination for the Republican Party for the presidency. |
| 0:45.8 | We turn to a trial pending trial that has not been changed in start date, to my knowledge, |
| 0:51.4 | beginning of March, by a federal prosecutor, Mr. Smith, having to do with |
| 0:56.2 | the events of January 6th. The question here going forward is to what is to be done, is the |
| 1:01.8 | trial of remedy to the possibility of |
| 1:04.8 | Donald Trump becoming president or becoming the nominee for the Republican |
| 1:08.8 | Party. Andy you have written that the trial is not appropriate that the word as you said the |
| 1:14.8 | insurrection word doesn't appear in the indictment and that the conviction doesn't |
| 1:19.9 | lead to an end of Donald Trump's candidacy. |
| 1:23.5 | You recommend impeachment, is that correct? |
| 1:26.0 | In other words, the familiar the House moves |
| 1:28.7 | to indict and the Senate judges. |
| 1:31.3 | That's your recommendation. |
| 1:33.3 | Yes, now that would not happen. |
| 1:35.8 | My only point is that the appropriate constitutional remedy |
| 1:39.5 | is impeachment and that criminal prosecution, no matter how anxious the Biden Justice Department is to achieve it on a schedule that accords with what they think is propitious for the 2024 campaign, that is not a substitute for impeachment |
| 1:58.8 | and for the reason that you just suggested, John, even if Trump were to be tried and convicted, and there's any |
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