President Trump Should Be Impeached
December 2, 2019
After the news about the Ukraine scandal, Americans supporting President Trump’s impeachment has reached the percentage of 48.8% according to FiveThirtyEight. With the continuation of the impeachment process, that number will only rise.
President Trump has showed no proof that he is capable of handling the issues of presidency. His policies have put people in danger and have ultimately destroyed any sort of sympathy towards keeping Trump as president. The Atlantic writes that President Trumps “ego, false words, and lack of empathy” make it completely justifiable to impeach him.
When half of America is supporting to get rid of a president, it’s pretty clear he should be impeached. For half of the population to hate their president shows Donald Trump’s success. Even if the hearing doesn’t last until the 2020 election, it still gives an image, not just our country but the whole world, that we do not agree with the egocentric President Trump.
NCS student • Dec 21, 2019 at 10:15 pm
Anonymous NCS student (the reason I’m not disclosing my name is so I don’t sever my relationship with author/start a flame war/beef lol): Ok, to preface this, I support the Democratic Party and agree that president trump should be impeached. But, this article completely mischaracterizes the argument for impeachment and frankly contradicts itself. First of all, the argument for impeachment is not because of his ego and lack of empathy, which is practically the only argument in this article. There was a point in time when people said that they didn’t like Obama because of his ego and subtle secrecy, but this was not a reason why he should be impeached. Simply saying that trump has a poor ego and is disrespectful is not an actual argument and should be rejected on face. I’m going to give a coherent argument for impeachment now because this one is a slap in the face to members of Congress who are actually trying to carry through with impeachment. Congressman Adam Schliff sums up the argument for impeachment really well, “The President engaged in this course of conduct for the benefit of his own presidential re-election, to harm the election prospects of a political rival, and to influence our nation’s upcoming presidential election to his advantage,” the report says. “In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security.” As you can see, these are actual reasons to impeach trump, rather than the “Trump=meanie” argument that this article forwards. I think it is important that communities discuss the importance of this issue in an informative manner with warrants given for either side. Although i agree with the thesis of the article, it seems to me that it equates to trump calling the inquiry a “hoax” in the first place. This debate should be a question of did he commit a crime or not. The reason I wrote this response is because the content of this article seems to contribute to the awful clash of media. The reason that Fox currently trolls the left because trump can’t actually get convicted by the senate is because things like this article say he is being impeached for reasons that are just false. The second reason for this comment was a simple contradiction. The author cites a study that says that 48% of the population want to impeach trump, but later says that it is clear half of the country thinks that he should be impeached. However, a quick trip to the calculator indicates that 52% of the country think trump should not be impeached. Although this was a simple error, it becomes important when actual impeachment before the senate trial is a question of 50/50. In conclusion, I think it is important to highlight that this article does not do justice to the impeachment inquiry and should be disregarded. In touchy subjects like impeachment, no matter which side you are on, it is of the utmost importance to provide solid arguments that allow a stasis point for responses.
sydney o'connell • Dec 3, 2019 at 12:28 pm
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