He probably won't be removed from office, but he has been impeached.

Oh

The trial started today

Got it.

Hate the word impeach...makes it sound like someone being turned into fruit

There's been a few president's impeached but nobody has left office prematurely to my knowledge

Yes now we can eat the peach.

I don't taste good 😁

Does that prevent him from running again?

3 presidents have been impeached

damn

The trial proper starts a week from now. They're just setting everything up.

There have been three impeachments of Presidents: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump.

They can still run again, but no one has ever been reelected after impeachment, though my money is on Trump getting reelected anyway.

So what the fuck was the point in doing it?

If it literally has no consequences?

Also why the fuck are there no consequences?!

It has serious consequences.

The two big ones seem left the fuck out though

An impeachment is essentially like charging the President with a crime of abusing the presidency.

And then letting him stay in office and potentially get re elected?? Wtf

There is a trial in the Senate, which must convict the President with 67 senators voting for removal.

Which isn't gonna happen.

There's too many Republicans

Right. If the Senate is so partisan that they won't vote to remove even a "guilty" President, the only power of impeachment is to stain that President's name in history.

Which is fucking insane

Like I get that everyone deserves the right to trial and all of that

I mean a simple majority vote in the house is too low a bar for removing a president.

@DragonKit NEEERD

It's the one time the Constitution let's the government simply agree to overturn the will of the electorate.

A fair trial has nothing to do with it. This is a political trial.

KITTEN

However; there should at least be the inability to run for reelection if it's done in first term

Not a criminal one. If Trump is removed, that won't make him convicted of any crimes.

it wont happen.

Isn't his term nearly over

Its close to election year and its majority republican in the senate.

It is but he can run again is the issue

Yes he can run, because he's still an American citizen with a clean record and of age to run. He can still run if he hasn't served two full terms.

Generally impeachment makes you unelectable, but Trump's base thinks the impeachment is illegitimate party politics.

Has he done anything worth impeaching?

If the allegations are true, yes.