The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Chaos isn't a by-product; it's the goal. Washington's newest pastime is counting the number of impeachable offenses Trump commits in his first 100 days.

Posted by Corky at 06:05 PM | 1 COMMENT | permalink

It's a parlor game rather than a government proceeding because you don't impeach a president less than three months into his term, and besides, the Republicans' three-vote majority in the House means the House wouldn't impeach Trump even if (in Trump's own famous formulation) he were to "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody."

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"No president in history"not even Trump in his first term"ever logged so many illegal actions in so short a time.

On January 20, a public-interest group called Free Speech for the People called for Trump's immediate impeachment based on his ever-bolder violations of the Constitution's emoluments clauses, which included, just a few days before the inauguration, the selling of a crypto memecoin that increased Trump's net worth by several billion dollars.

It later added to its brief Trump's January 6 pardons, which can be construed as Trump protecting himself from further investigation of his role in that 2021 insurrection.

Trump's executive order nullifying birthright citizenship (and therefore part of the Fourteenth Amendment) is another impeachable offense, blocked at the moment by a federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Trump also fired about 17 inspectors general without providing the legally required 30 days' advance notice and "substantive rationale" for their dismissal, and he ordered military units dispatched to the southern border, in apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act."