Legal merits aside, spending years accusing Trump of treason, bribery, & collusion and then impeaching him for none of those things *but including an article on obstruction of Congress* as one of the 2 charges seems like disastrously inside-Beltway politics.
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The obstruction count does not include any charge of perjury, witness tampering, anything like that. It's literally just "you refused to cooperate with our investigation of you." Knowing you lack the votes in the Senate, why include this? Who is the man-in-the-street audience?
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Let's face it, a lot of people feel that (1) Trump was elected, basically, to give Congress the finger & (2) Trump has no obligation to help anybody investigate him. I don't endorse those sentiments, but this is not the hill to die on.
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If I was a Democrat, I'd likely support impeaching Trump *precisely because impeachment under these circumstances is an exercise in political messaging.* The House can, if it likes, use impeachment to make a case of presidential unfitness ahead of an election. But then sell that!
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Not one vote is going to change to Trump's detriment next November by accusing Trump of refusing to help Congress remove him from office. I just don't see the political rationale.
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The funny thing is when the "obstruction of Congress" fails in the Senate, that will mean Trump can "obstruct" Dems in the House even more since he would have been "acquitted" of that. Haha.
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