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Democrat says Trump is ‘stealing’ from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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As an outside observer - does impeaching do anything? I thought he'd got two of those under his belt already and it made no difference.
Impeachment is done in the House of Representatives and is similar to an indictment. After the House impeaches a government official a trial is held in the Senate. A conviction requires a two thirds vote in the Senate. If convicted the official is removed from office and may be barred from holding future office.
Trump has been impeached twice but neither trial has resulted in the 67 votes required for conviction in the Senate.
You have to impeach in order to remove from office. So far impeachment hasn't led to that, but it could.
the gop will never remove one of thier own office, they may virtue signalling by doing it in the house, but they made deals ahead of time knowing the senate will not convict.
It absolutely couldn't. Best estimates show dems gaining a couple seats in the midterms, and conviction requires 2/3 of the senate. There's no way 15+ of the GQP are gonna suddenly not be fascist bootlickers.
They're talking about the parliamentary process, not the political reality.
I was asking about the political reality.
The House has the power to impeach him...but only the Senate has the power to remove him. All the other times Democrats had control of the House, while Republicans controlled the Senate.