1. impeachment (basically filing a charge against POTUS in the House) and removal from office (a conviction after trial in the Senate) are political processes, not legal ones.
2. which means politics will dictate what happens.
3. as long as the Republican party controls both houses of Congress there's basically no chance he'll be impeached let alone removed from office ("I could shoot a man dead in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any support").
4. there's disagreement as to whether a sitting POTUS can be criminally charged in federal court. most federal prosecutors won't attempt it. i dunno if there's even one out there. i dunno if any federal judge would allow the proceeding to go on beyond the initial stage. i expect a motion to dismiss would be filed right away and probably granted.
5. but a sitting POTUS probably can be criminally charged in state court. i would expect the matter would be delayed delayed delayed until after POTUS is out of office. i dunno that we could trust any criminal proceeding against a sitting POTUS (way too much likelihood of judge/jury/prosecutorial bias running in all directions). it'd be a mess.
the best we can realistically hope for is that he loses in 2020.
9. "#5. Rumor is ny is working on it" In response to Reply # 8
And depending on how far down the rabbit hole u wanna go, there's already sealed indictments
I agree that a criminal case b4 2018/2020 is a longshot, but I don't see how mueller is pulling bank records, rico experts, etc and then gonna sit in front of a table of evidence and say- technically were not allowed to charge him
OTOH, that's basically what comey did with Hillary's emails
And 2018 is already gerrymandered to death
Only speed up to the process will be if it gets bad enough that millions camp out in front of the white house until he resigns. South Korea did that in 1week
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