Executive privilege...

[Benton]

(05-24-2019, 02:06 PM)hollodero Wrote: But for an impeachment, one would also need evidence. Witnesses. Documents. All things that can be put under executive privilege, obviously. Now all you need is a party of non-Amashes that cover for you no matter what, and you're pretty much untouchable. That's how it appears to me.

So there seems to be no way to investigate him if he chooses to prohibit it. From obvious crimes to questionable security clearances and everything in between.

That's good to have, but I don't think really necessary. Impeachment is a political mechanism for removing someone from office, not a criminal trial. 

If I'm not mistaken, and I may be because that was a long time ago, there wasn't any evidence in Clinton's impeachment outside of the dress. It was all just claims that he had perjured and that he had obstructed. So it's not like a court of law where you have to prove something happened, it's just where you have to convince enough members of Congress that they should vote as if something happened.

The "did Trump do something impeachable" issue has really been more about if Democrats want to play the political theater the Republicans did in the 90s with Clinton, or if they want to just use it as marketing material.