Impeachment is broken. Impeach Trump, anyway. 

youre part of the machine the one designed to keep us at each others throats suppressed and angry dont give vox your info via survey they will sell you the f out

I liked the presentation. I learned. We need more civics lessons.

I don't support people who are tearing apart this nation.

Many other countries have changed impeachment and varying forms of removal from office to reflect these difficulties. Many with directly elected officials, especially presidential republics like the US, allow recalls, as do many individual American states. The voters themselves decide whether the official they put into office has committed political offenses that are disreputable to the society but not necessarily illegal. The judiciary in many countries is designed as a more insulated body, with a special judicial council or commission to oversee the appointment and removal of judges, often a designed to be inclusive process changing over time, involving many political and legal actors with strong experience, especially the aspects related to the highest court in the country. The impeachment process doesn't need to be used for the judiciary and risk politicizing the judiciary. The highest court, more specifically the constitutional court, often the only body allowed to hold an impeachment trial and in some countries, the primary or only way to declare a law unconstitutional, is often a delicate balance, such as giving the cabinet, the judiciary itself, and the legislature, both houses of it if bicameral, influence, such as giving each one a set number of appointments to make on the court, for a fixed term, usually 9 to 12 years long, non renewable, and staggered. It's recognized to be a political actor, interpreting the constitution, reflecting on laws and executive policy, and often deciding the fate of political actors, so they need to be widely respected to work. The legislature often has the option to impeach a president or high official for actual crimes that are actually illegal or expressly unconstitutional or in violation of specific court orders, by holding a vote or proposal in the legislature and holding a trial in the constitutional court, allowing an actual trial to be held for actual accusations of crimes, and not giving politicians the power to determine whether an individual committed a crime or not, merely to initiate the trial. Other legislatures hold the power to refer such officials to the people to decide, such as the Romanian constitution giving the legislature the right to hold a vote on holding a referendum on whether to retain the president or not, and the Romanian president is an executive figure not merely a ceremonial parliamentary officer. They also tend to clarify presidential immunity too, such as expressly forbidding prosecution or civil suit of an incumbent president but also suspending the statute of limitations and all deadlines associated with prosecutions or civil suits during their time in office, and many constitutions now forbid the amendment of any clause imposing term limits to relax or repeal them, to prevent any president from holding immunity forever.

Why won't you tell the truth?

Not yet

Im afriad he will pull a Sadam Hussien and read off a list of enemy names during the next state of the union What would happen if he had guards execute the Democratic leadership next to a stack of presigned pardons?

Morty Sanchez “from this day forth the United States will be reorganised into the first North American Empire for a safer and securer society”

Morty Sanchez that would entail the house inviting him for the address and a president currently in the impeachment process isn’t one that is likely to be invited.

@@davidthewhale7556 The best empire, all the people are saying it, you know, a lot of people told me I should be emporer, a lot of people, the best people, Hillary Clintons emails are a disgrace, and Hunter Biden, dont even get me started, Wikileaks!

Me too. Anyone know the artist?

Ah, Ah....

@The Lavian Bless you. lol

The Lavian good eye!

@@JO-fj9bp microsoft

Probably an important point to bring up. I also don't think he said that about the senate because of their 6 year terms and how they were staggered, but because they weren't popularly elected.

Why was it switched from state legislatures to popular vote?

@@faranocks maybe people need to complain again to switch it back

Solid point.

manofsan lol!!!! Well there’s pros and cons. If the state legislature has been filled with the same partisan nonsense, it would be somewhat silly to let them speak for you when it comes to representing you nationally when they cannot adequately represent you statewide. I can see why people didn’t appreciate that concept.

That's a fair point.

In some states even, Senators were appointed by Governor’s, and the choice of a state in choosing how to elect their Senator (governor appointment, State Representative approval/elected, or popular vote) was ended by the 17th amendment, requiring all states to have a popular vote with all eligible citizens to decide their Senator.

If senators were still chosen in this way, it would still be partisan in nature. Pretending otherwise is pretty silly, and sounds like you're blaming democracy for the failures of our constitution.

Yahoo, someone who knows what he is talking about. This little smurf who is telling me about Trump, doesn't understand today's politics and how the Dems have been acting for the last three years. A comparison would be, the Democratic GANG owns the city. One day an honest cop shows up walking the beat. And, he's looking in their widows and getting ready to kick down a couple doors.

That seems like a much better system, why did it change?

Sky. Sad, but true.

SKY HIGH this is precisely why you need 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. It is a failsafe against decisions based on strength of party, and at 2/3rds vote you can rest pretty assured that the president is guilty. Therefore the system is not broken.

@@kerrywsmyth The system is broken because the Senators will vote partisan, guilty or not. Republican Senators will vote their party and justify their President no matter what. They don't care about facts, they are just making a political calculation. The President can be totally guilty and they still will give him a pass. That's why the system is broken.

@@AlexTule Or vice versa but you wouldn't say that right now since it's not to your liking.

@@AlexTule so in your mind if democrats feel Trump is guilty, then that means he's guilty huh? And of course they wouldn't be voting partisan like those evil republicans right? lol

Derek Wheeler and yet the Senate is elected directly by the people now. If anything that changes the dynamic to make Senators more beholden to their people not to their party. That sadly isn’t the case.

@@themarcusismael13 We already had the Peoples' House, which is the House of Representatives. That was the peoples' direct vote being used. The Senate was suppose to be different. Once again, Democrats do not understand the Constitution, nor do they understand the foundings of this country.

Yup that changed a lot

@@JustinStrife Government is supposed to work for the people. With all the Gerrymandering in America, how can you expect fair senate appointments? Republicans already hold 7 more seats due to district gerrymandering, think what 7 seats would be in the 100 people senate.

@Danilo Lee you’re right, senators have States right now. What he means is that public an hold more state level-legislatures because of gerrymandering and therefor could make more unfair appointments. State legislatures are district based.

I like turtles

Thank you!

It's nice

It’s a perfect backdrop for this kind of video!

I agree, it is very nice

Uhohhotdog Gaming ik it’s pretty disappointing

60% I got popcorn 39% Star Wars 1% Arguments.

No, at least 5% are complementing the video backdrop.

Comments are a gift from God !!!

I personally am enjoying the relative lack of hate - fueled attacks. And the additional helpful historical fact - based comments are like dessert topping...But it's still early...

✋ here!

Wise words

@@masudaahmed7990 Yes🤣🤣🤣

Palpatine is the Senate Ergo Ian McDiarmid shall decide Trump’s fate

Adam Bailey not, yet...

*He is the senate*

He *is* the senate

Impeach Nancy and Nadler

ah yes, rational comments

And healthy discussions...

The Sherman Tank was the best tank of WW2

Ah yes of course

@R RQ Can you stop pushing your agenda? Jeez...

*WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE YOU’RE RUNNING OUT IF TIME, WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE YOU NEED IT TO SURVIVE?*

TRUMP IS THE WINNER EVERYTIME.

This will escalate into civil war when Emperor Trump, trumps the competition and they pull a john wilks booth on him. trump will win and i’m not tired

MR TRUMP MR FARAGE MR JOHNSON you are evidence that Trump supporters are a cult

Was Poppin - Faulty Generalization much?

All he had to do was say no to this.

Bet he would feel helpless

That's good.

I heard its almost impossible to get tickets.

I don't know If It was intended, but I loved the refference

RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING THE REPUBLICANS SINCE 2015. TRUMP IS NOT AN AMERICAN -HE IS A RUSSIAN ASSET .

@@mmcken3354 Mind actually talking instead of breaking your keyboard, dude? The all caps was funny in 2009, but it's gotten old.

@@mmcken3354 he's quite the jack asset.

He was like what?

WE WILL SUPPORT COMRADE TRUMP.

its not half the country, only roughly half of the voting population which iirc is less than half the US

@@JWBrinker3 you mean 90% of the country by landmass supports trump? Because have you looked at a map of the election? how lush and red that map was?

What if you are, how could you tell?

Indeed, but which half?

@@hadenwilson7278 I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but cornfields and tumbleweed do not count as people.

He does seem less intense.

I find Ezra Klein a little annoying.

Leaning a little bit to the left?

everything about his body language reveals how nauseatingly self-righteous he is

dude is a snake

Alexis De leon lol robot chicken

I AM THE SENATE

"Just get me a turkey club. Uhhh, coleslaw I guess, I'm not even gonna eat it. Wh-wh-what are you getting?"

Alexis De leon It’s true I was there, I was the Senate

"Call for papa Palpatine" "You have a collect call from *breathing* Darth Vader" "Oh I gotta take this, hold on..."

funkydanieluk America has horrible politics

2020; now his approval ratings are low.

Spittin' lines

He wrote the other 51!

I saw Jacksfilms dressed as Hamilton 😅

HAMILTON WROTE *THE OTHER FIFTY ONE*

Elizabeth Powell how do you write like you're running out of time?

Sashimiroll he really shouldn’t have assumed he was the smartest in the room. I mean, how could he have known something great would become so corrupted and perverse over 2 centuries later

The man was non stop.

Are you okay? It seems like you're writing like you're running out of time.

huh

Very well said

@@joshuamoore1091 very republican, much said.

@@cheruba6240 Its called being rational.

@@shr00mhead Rational? 'Not every impeachable offense should be impeached' is rational? This mindset is exactly how executives will overstep boundaries and become corrupt, this is not rational.

Yay

I lived through it and this is much worse. At least Nixon wasn't selling out our country and had some morals.

@@georgeplimpton5156 Yes. Nixon made mistakes -- unforgivable ones, I think. But at least he had an interest in the common good, and cared about the welfare of the American people. Trump seems devoid of empathy, common sense, knowledge, and competence.

@@UTU49 Nixon did some things that by todays standards would be stuff a liberal president would do. Like with the labor unions , solar panels,ect.

@larry5200 How is this a coup? No one is using a occupying power to force out the current government and replace it with themselves. They are attempting to remove one person from one seat, the Presidency, and replace him with his chosen and elected Vice President (unless that Vice President gets impeached too, then you just go down the order of succession). The rest of the government remains the same.

@@ArticBlueFox96 for someone looking from outside the US, it looks like a coup because its been in motion since before he even got elected. It feels like they are just using political processes to remove him not for his work, but because he won, otherwise they would've waited alot longer to take these measures... they have for several times said "havent read X yet, but we have proof, we'll go ahead!", this makes them look desperate and then even IF they are correct, make it harder for themselfs because people start doubting their motives and the process itself... For now this looks like a Roadrunner sketch: the coyote (democrats) see the roadrunner (Trump) and say "we must stop him!", then they set up a trap, it blows in their face just to go on setting more traps and so on. Im curious to see how this ends, i dont think he is as bad as the media paints him, i think alot of what he has done 99,99% of politicians would do/have done, the media just didnt report it. I can tell you one thing, so far in my 37 young years of life i have never seen anyone be so scrutinized for every single little thing he does or say.

@Dodd Frank parties are inevitable, but the two party system is not. we need an alternative vote system, no longer first past the post

Cannot be done. The current system is all that we are. People for high taxes and big government vs low taxes and small government. That is the most fundamental divide.

@@kloonaajakloonaaja A number of countries are examples that show this isn't true. Impractical: maybe. Unlikely: perhaps. Cannot be done: not so much. Not every system is divided along the same lines, and those lines change over time. The Wilmington Massacre doesn't really fit with the Democrats' current view of racial equality, for instance. Imagining the status quo is immutable is a bit misguided.

@@kloonaajakloonaaja Ha, that's funny. You think there's a party seeking lower taxes (for you)

Liam Collins two party system actually inevitable, it’s a mathematical phenomenon where in a country so large with a plurality rule election, naturally two parties will arise. 3 parties could never happen. Think about it what if the votes were split 33 33 34. Winner without a majority? Would not go over wel

Maximillian TM yah they said that in the video

@SteadyChasin MoneyBags didn't u watch the video

>won't be impeached Not with that attitude!

The thing is it would only strengthen his chances at reelection so there’s not really a point lol

Totally agree. And, of course, there's always a chance that things will change enough for the Senate to actually remove Trump. Remember, Trump's #1 priority is loyalty. So if Republican senators start saying things like, "We can't blindly vote along party lines. We need to vote our conscience.", how would Trump respond to that? He would be absolutely enraged. He would viciously attack any Republican senator who would even THINK about voting for his removal. Would that make the Republican senators more... or less... likely to vote in Trump's favor? I don't think Trump would like the answer to that question. The great thing about putting maximum pressure on Trump is that his responses only confirm people's concerns about him.

@@zuryandrade143 bla bla blaa... as if there was not mass shooting before trump..

Senate republicans will never impeach trump. But don’t worry, they will lose the upcoming elections. By a lot.

It is a disgrace to this nation

@@constantinshim4271 chill

Don't judge a book by its cover.

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Morty Sanchez HAMILTON WROTE, THE OTHER 51

Cant read that handwriting

How do you write like you're running out of time?

@@nyanveshika1152 We are all running out of time.

Jared Garbo Exactly lol

Every day you write like you are a running out of time (like you are running out of time) [like you are running out of time]

Hahahaha love it

Hahahaha love it

Seriously.. waste of 🍿🍿 and the backdrop irritates me tbh

I'm pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong) that during the Obama presidency the Republicans would have had more precedent to prosecute because they dominated the house.

LGizzile I can. I lived through the Clinton impeachment and what Clinton did was more trumped up than based on anything. Republicans would be babbling and screaming, posturing and preaching about “cleansing” the office of the presidency, just as they already did before, 24/7. The Democrats now are the adults in the House. Trump is the guilty criminal who can’t stop screaming about his “innocence,” “perfection,” “niceness,” and no one with two brain cells to rub together believes him because he is so obviously lying. We know Trump always lies, and when he should take responsibility he tries to smear and blame others instead.

He would be out immediately.

Oh, no doubt....Obama would already be out long before now, & serving time in Federal prison.

@@Keri-Lynn I am happy we can agree.

They have great videos about music.

you dont have to be subscribed to comment?

@@zero4430, hahaha. So true.

lots of those

Consider that it may be more likely many of these extremely antagonistic comments come from a foreign troll farm (eg. Russia)

@@AnontheOP did you even watch the video? Not only has he committed multiple crimes, but more importantly, he has abused his power to manipulate the coming election. Even more importantly, the president doesnt even need to commit a crime to be impeached. Clinton didnt

Wyatt Knowlton what crimes did he commit?

@@AnontheOP You were supposed to reply "Not yet". You've ruined it!

@@wyattknowlton8209 What crimes? Why is the left talkiing about crimes... yet can not site one??

2bRealist the ones explained in the video? The ones that you can do simple research to find.

Very well

And unfortunately, nothing in this video makes me believe otherwise

@Dhanushka Jayasinghe He didn't do anything worth impeaching. The Democratic party and its constituents have just created a boogie man out of him. Liberal loyalists would be irritated if Trump took a deep breath in their general vicinity. So it's easy for people who already hate the man to attach meaning to his statements that does objectively exist. Opinions are not enough for impeachment.

Light Artorias “He didn't do anything worth impeaching", you say. In this case, that's arguable. He pressured the President of Ukraine to supply him (Trump) with information that hopefully would be detrimental to his most likely opponent in the general election. Big deal? Well, kinda. With impeaching? Debatable. Combined with all the other dubious actions, policies, shady deals, shady hirings, shady firings, misuse of government funds, misappropriation of military budgets, incitement to violence and turmoil, egregious abuse of any moral standing as President of the United States, I'd say"ABSOLUTELY YES"

@Dhanushka Jayasinghe He didn't pressure he president though. The transcripts show he didn't pressure the Ukrainian President and The Ukrainian President backed up the transcripts also saying that Trump didn't pressure him on the call. Get your head out of the sand. You people hate him so much that you are just seeing what you want to see.

@@lightartorias552 none of what you said is true. are you listening NOW? he is a Russian asset-not a sitting President nor an American

To distract from the mess our country in that we can't do anything about? That's what I'm doing at least.

Same aha how are both Us and the US are both in such a mess

same south london

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@@TyWillCFC Because of misinformation and/or broken systems.

@Northern I also never said I support the bidens either

Big deal

Northern The media cant seem to handle the fact that people who arent Trump can do wrong.

Ask Trump

I think that it is made of colored wood planks

Painted blocks of wood. You think something so plain is so cool...

@@RNG-999There's beauty in simplicity, and that's cool

Bamboo from China. It use to be half of the current price but now we have a trade war happening. So you pay more.

@You Know How dare the president bring up ther fact that Biden committed major crime and admitted it on tape?!

Yeah it's part of the song

the microphone has tinnitus

sichadeb yes

I'm with K. Flynn on this one - pretty sure it's just part of the background music. You can hear the pitch start to change about 15 seconds later.

I thought my microwave was going off and got up to go look

What influence..? the election was never connected to internet

He was paraphrasing. Quoting directly would have slowed the pace of video. In any case I think he preserved the meaning of the paragraph.

He was, but it still wasn't a good system. Breaking impeachment was a byproduct of a greater good. People should always choose their representatives directly no matter what.

@@XhumpersX there will be no impeachment.

I was looking for a comment like this. You made my day, good sir.

John Jay got sick after writing five, Jame Madison wrote twenty-nine, Hamilton wrote the other 51

@@Odrosales18 Why do you write like your running out of time?

@Mulmius write day and night like you’re running out of time

me too

Ezra Klein is not a great political commentator in my opinion. He seems to value his career and popularity over truth or good-faith argumentation. Check Ezra Klein's podcast with Sam Harris for reference.

Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me Are you aware that we're making hist'ry? This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation The liberty behind deliberation

Lol James Comey is a good person? Next you're gonna say John Bolton is a good persion. And no I'm not a Trump supporter.

"good"

Comey and Brennan... both snakes

Human can make religion out of anything.

Because it says you can overthrow a tyrannical government. Does your country say that about itself?

misterOsc Yeah Im sure your woke democrats who want to ban straws are ALL WE NEED.

He will win again, if Democrats would focus on the people who voted for him in 2016 and focus on why they voted for him they would easily win next year. The more attention you give him will always be a win for Trump, this is precisely what happened in 2016, and it will happen again next election.

Well it’s tough to have a quid pro quo when one side isn’t aware anything is being left on the table (military funding) - Ukraine even said they weren’t even aware military funding had been withheld. Why do people choose not to see that part?

Sadly, republicans do not care. They believe in party over country.

@@angelgjr1999 As a Conservitive libertarian, america first. And trump is exposing corruption and draining the swamp. Trump pointed at a kid who stole a cookie from the cookie jar, and cookie jar thief's friends are all pointing at trump and lying, it's sickening how childish your party has become.

@@angelgjr1999 Some would say the same for the Democrats, my dude

I hate how accurate this is.

It just works

MagicFlyingMan FBM

omg yes...

I wish your comment had more likes omg

wantafanta01 *he lost by 3 million votes despite Russians hacking many state wide election ballots.

Angel Gutierrez that’s not how it works but ok

No evidence that any votes were changed by Russians. There was hacking, there were facebook memes. Thems the facts. Electoral college upheld our representative democracy as was intended.

Since when does America follow what the rest of the world wants? LOL

I was so concerned abt this too lol

They always show the music in the end credits.

Darude Sandstorm

@@Whacintosh dooo dodoo dodoo dooo

Baby Shark 🦈

Stock music for increasing drama to make an argument more emphatic

Epic gamer moment 😂

Trump: impeachment is unfair and harassment ban now! Dems in the house and the senate: Hoes mad

@Brianna Jones sorry its a smash ultimate reference.

The Great Gatsby I'm reading your book

@@devinrr "flattered" but its not my book. Its America's book i hope you love the book as much as i did

I like how the same photo of trump is used twice

It was because he hasn’t thrown away his shot😉

hey its me jop it’s not 4pm everywhere guy!

oh alright You know it's a serious Vox video when they wait until 11AM Universal Coordinated Time to upload it.

You know it's serious when Ezra is on it

And just like The Clinton Impeachment, the Impeachers WILL lose congressional seats. Learn from your enemies, don't mimic them.

Trump loss the popular vote, it’s surprising he’s even president at all. There’s no way he’ll be re-elected.

@@AxeSoul wrong, trump support base has trippled since the election. Get ready to be crying in 2020😂

Got em

Nothing the Senate does, can reverse Trump* being impeached.

@@stoneyll nothing the house does can stop from Trump* from being reelected.

@@stoneyll Pelosi has 1 year to hand over the articles or The resolution dies.

True, but it would look bad if the democrats didn't at least try. It would be admitting the president is above the law.

Tekmateak impeachment is just a charge. Clinton was impeached. He could be impeached easily.

If the inquiry goes through then he will get impeached...it’s just a charge and he will he tried...he won’t get kicked out...getting kick out of office and impeachment are two different things. You can be impeached and not kicked out of office

@@jw9099 You and I both know that's not true, at the very least not anymore.

Tekmateak omfg thank you!!!

Wally Schroeder senate wont convict

Check out Legal eagle on youtube. He is very good at breaking the legal side of things down for the average person and Has I think several videos on impeachment, 1 on the whistle blower complaint, another on hearsay (highly reccomend), another on quid pro quo, one breaking down impeachment and the history of past Impeachments and others I think

He's impeached. No one is surprised by that, I think most people would have guessed when the Democrats started the impeachment procedure that he would be impeached. Even in this video he never debated that

If by most you mean not the Republicans than yes

And you like that?

🦟

Can't know that until he releases his tax returns.

You think that powerful democrats in government or retired, don’t have the connections to get the exact details of his taxes. I’m sure that if there was a legitimate offense with his taxes it would have already been brought out

Remember when Obama came out strongly for Macron during the French election? Imagine if Putin or Xi Jinping had done the same thing for Trump or Clinton?

Maybe because the US donates such a lot of money to almost all foreign countries. And not the other way around. Google it. Could that be the reason?

Yes

No, but you can impeach someone for withholding much needed military aid to an american ally until they investigate your political rival.

That's a good thing.

Yes, but the Democrats are so incompetent that they cannot get their lies straight.

@@arandommobilebc2046 witholding the aid is not a problem. Using it to self benefit it IS (maybe).

And his tax returns while they're at it

@@Ski3HigH Yes! I don't get why they want to rush this! There are so many open questions.

@Will224000 What do you mean by "CrowdStrike"?

@Tobby Isiba Enlighten me. When and where and how did they?

@@Yanaschaf, Hotel emoluments was explicitly stated in this very same Ukraine phone call, yet no one talks about this. One phone call gave multiple reasons for Impeachment.

Ascending to office by illegitimate means was enough. We had everything we needed to Impeach Trump-Pence back in December of 2016, before they were ever sworn in to office.

@@dahawk8574 I guess thats why hes still in office.

First testimony showed quid pro quo today. Emails and solid evidence of such. Republicans didn't see anything 🙈. More to come 🙈🙈🙈🙉🙉🙉🙊🙊🙊.

So what, “he did it so I’m allied to too isn’t exactly a political argument. Nice beard btw

That's actually not a bad idea

Good in theory but would not really be fair due to them either being liberal or conservative depending on who appointed them. Right now justices are mostly conservative. So they would probably always go with the republicans. And would justice Brett Kavanaugh really vote to impeach the person who put him in power? Maybe it would work but I don’t see it.

Not anymore, Trump is going right off the deep end with far right judges like no one has ever done before

This comment made my day 😂

Andrea Sammut 😏

So...last week?