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    UNIMPEACHABLY YOURS

    May 21, 2019 4 minutes
    BY RICHARD BROOKHISER

    Since Donald Trump’s election, his most passionate opponents have been transfixed by the vision of impeaching him. Website Impeach-DonaldTrumpNow.org appeared as the inaugural confetti was being swept up.

    Trump’s Russophilia looked for months as if it might supply the legal MacGuffin. Former CIA director John Brennan declared Trump’s performance at a 2018 press conference with Vladimir Putin “imbecilic,” “treasonous,” and beyond the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. Once the Mueller report found no collusion, impeachers shifted focus to Trump’s tax returns, said to be as ugly as a yeti; they are certainly as elusive. In March , blue America’s , ran a think piece titled “The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump.” To many readers, the big reveal will be that there are cons.

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