October 28, 2016

"Could Trump Be Impeached Shortly After He Takes Office?/It's highly improbable, but law scholars and political junkies are speculating about it."

Oh, that's just something from last April, in Politico. It popped up first when I Googled "impeaching before elected" after reading the breaking news: "F.B.I. Reviewing New Emails in Hillary Clinton Case":
The F.B.I. said Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the closed investigation into whether Hillary Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information, potentially reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.

In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, and that they “appear to be pertinent to the investigation.”

Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was taking steps to “determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.” He said he did not know how long it would take to review the emails, or whether the new information was significant.
And here's the article I was looking for with that Google search, Andrew McCarthy in The National Review: "Impeach Clinton to Bar Her from Holding Federal Office. It’s Constitutional."

ADDED: "New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices."
Federal law enforcement officials said Friday that the new emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server were discovered after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton, and her husband, Anthony Weiner. The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina....
This is one of these Friday afternoons.

AND: That last link goes to the NYT where the top-rated (by far) comment is: "And with one strangely opaque and noncommittal letter James Comey puts his thumb on the scales of the presidential election with 11 days to go. Truly this is a never ending nightmare."

ALSO: I removed the link on "F.B.I. Reviewing New Emails in Hillary Clinton Case" because it's gone dead. The material that was at the link is now at "New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices" (which is in the "ADDED" section above).

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bflat879 said...

One thing for sure, it's really important to, not only have a Republican Senate, but one that has majorities sufficient enough to make sure that, should Hillary be elected, they have sufficient majorities to be ensure she's convicted in the evidence is there in impeachment. Her husband got off because Democrats were willing to make a deal with him so they wouldn't vote to convict.

MadisonMan said...

I don't want the country to go through a recently-elected President being impeached. It's far better that she is not elected, and I'll vote for Trump to prevent that. I was going to vote for Trump because Hillary was likely winning, but now my vote for Trump is to prevent Hillary from winning. I think it would be a disaster, politically, if she wins. I'd like to think that Democrats would wake up to the damage she was causing (1) the country and (2) their brand, but as you say one can't rely on that, and I certainly don't expect her to resign -- heck, she's worked her entire life for this.

Greek Tragedy, and great opera.

OLDFART said...

No, Trump could not be impeached but hillary certainly would!

wildswan said...

What about this? Maybe Hillary sent classified e-mail to Huma at the Yahoo address recently after all the investigations and Huma kept it - after all the investigations - on an unsecured computer. Then that would show intent because the FBI investigations warned them not to do that. So all deals are off. Furthermore, the FBI concluded that if Hillary could not learn from the last year how to handle classified material then she never would and it was not safe for her to be President.

Or maybe
Hillary knows what she sent to Huma at Yahoo and does not have to ask the FBI for what she sent. But what if Wiener had a file of Huma to Hillary e-mails for some purpose of his own and Hillary does not know which e-mails he took?

Or maybe Wiener is retaliating for them putting him under house-arrest (virtually) all day in the apartment. He roamed around the computer reading his wife's e-mail and saw ... what? and told the FBI in exchange for a lesser sentence on sexting a 15 year-old.

The real point being illustrated is that squalid people like Bill, Hillary, Huma and Anthony cannot be near national security because they only think about personal security.

Ambrose said...

What's all this I am reading about not accepting the results of the election? Is that bad or good, I am trying to keep up here?

wildswan said...

Or maybe Huma set up her e-mail accounts to back up on her/his desktop and did not know she did it - just one of those buttons you push at setup. But Anthony did know or found out and put some of these e-mails on his phone for some reason. Where the FBI found them and before anyone could stop them found the backup which has classified material. BLAM

madAsHell said...

I mean, does anybody really know what she did to be fired?

She was fabricating evidence. They were getting ready to impeach a president. She wanted to promote her brand, and spike the football in the end zone with fabricated evidence.

She's wanted to be president for a long time.

Bruce Hayden said...

I don't think that it si necessarily as complex as some here have thought. I have always had a soft spot for Huma. She seems to actually love Crooked Hillary, and isn't there just to use her to get ahead. Maybe almost like Hillary's wife. Something like that. Clinton's closest associate. Almost a daughter. The Clintons seem to have put Huma together with Weiner as some sort of dynastic, arranged, marriage, the rapidly rising NY Dem politician and Crooked's protege. And as a dutiful Muslim woman, she did was everyone expected of her - married the guy. And, stuck by him. Muslim women do this all the time. Brought in a second (Clinton Foundation) and third (Teneo) salary, when her husband lost his job by, essentially, being a pervert. But, a lot of Muslims are perverts, so no reason to divorce him, so she stuck by him. Then, he got caught again. And, finally, again, but with her son in the video.

She seems to be a fairly loving person, at least in regards to Crooked Hillary, who, I think most will admit here, is a hard person to love. They got close. Maybe too close. So, maybe no surprise, late at night, or when she was home with her baby, she and Crooked would keep in close touch by email. More empathetic maybe than bright, when the Clinton camp deleted, then wiped/bleached half of Crooked Hillary's emails to keep them from the VSR (Vast Rightwing Conspiracy, in the form of Congress and FOI applicants), no one put 2+2 together to figure out that Huma should do the same, that her emails with Clinton are likely a treasure trove of incriminating emails that had been deleted on the Clinton end. Not about Clinton's daughter, grandkid, or yoga practice, but about the coverup, and, maybe some classified stuff to boot.

It may ultimately be a lesson in hubris. A classic tragic comedy. A sexual predator and his enabling wife set her closest aide up with a rising star to benefit both of them. But, the rising star turns out to be a pervert, is repeatedly exposed, and his exposure essentially brings down the enabling wife and her sexual predator husband, thanks to the naive aide just trying to help her mentor, staying up late at night talking to her.

Bruce Hayden said...

Sorry if my apparent Muslim prejudices offended anyone in my last post. The problem is that Huma is not really a modern Muslim woman, but rather seems to have come out of a more fundamentalist tradition. Her mother still apparently wears a head covering in public, and is still editing a magazine that her husband started, that is closely aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood (and, her brothers seem to be involved too). (As a side note - that probably should have kept her from getting a security clearance, but she was working for a Clinton, where the normal rules don't apply). We are talking the environment of honor killings, female genital mutilation, and arranged marriages. Not like most of the Muslims that we mostly meet in this country. Because of the sexual mores, pederasty, and even bestiality are tolerated, while out of marriage heterosexual relations are not.

David said...

Things that you have been assiduously hiding for years tend to come out at inconvenient times. If Hillary had not schemed and lied and deleted for so long, things would have come out more than 11 days before the election.

The Democrats were more fair about it. They came up with the allegations about Trump's groping about 15-20 days before the election. With more each day and every day.

Karma is a real bitch.

David said...

It's not going to change the result, people, unless there is a real smoking gun. If any inferences are required, the coverup will remain successful.

2klbofun said...

Maybe Congress could actually come together and preemptively impeach both Hillary and Donald on the same ballot, making them both ineligible to hold office. It would definitely be an exercise of the checks and balances the founders thought needed to be in place.

Fen said...

"But I’m interested to hear the details of what they had to say. For instance – what they thought about polling accuracy."

Short version is that MSM polls are not being used to report votes, they are being used to herd votes. Wikileaks has proof of Dems advising the MSM where to go to oversample support for Hillary. The goal is to suppress turnout and try to kickstart some motivation for Hillary.

The MSM is so far in the tank for the Dems that they should be subject to campaign finance laws.

Michael The Magnificent said...

I bet the FBI, while investigating Anthony Weiner, stumbled across Huma Abedin's stash of blue Gap dresses, emails incriminating Hillary that she forwarded to her private email account as insurance should Hillary decide to toss her under the bus.

Matt Sablan said...

My real question though is: How did the FBI not seize Huma Abedin's devices when they were investigating her for hiding secret emails?

Why did it take them investigating her husband sexting teens for them to decide to seize her devices?

What logic caused one team to say: "We don't need to see Sec. Clinton's right hand's electronic devices," and another to say, "Maybe her husband sent an under aged teenager a sext from his wife's phone."

Matt Sablan said...

"If Abedin doesn't give a full and unfettered press conference in the next 3 days, then you know it is really, really bad for Clinton."

-- I have a little sympathy in not wanting to put Abedin in the situation of having to answer questions like, "How do you feel about your husband sending pictures to under aged girls while your toddler is in the room?" I'm perfectly fine with Clinton being Abedin's surrogate in this case, and I actually find it somewhat nice that Clinton was willing to go out and get punched in the face so Abedin didn't have to.

Qwinn said...

"It's not going to change the result, people, unless there is a real smoking gun."

Between Podesta emails, James O'Keefe and what Comey has already admitted Hillary did back in July, I think the number of smoking guns already uncovered is in double digits territory.

Even smoking guns are not enough, if you have a complicit media and DOJ, and a voting base that actively despises America.

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