Democrats just dropped a heavy hammer on the president, eight days out from Election Day. House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-page report Monday morning accusing Donald Trump of participating in Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex schemes. The caucus also accused the Trump administration of a broad cover-up, designed to shield the president from blowback as they tried to roll out the release of the Epstein files to the general public. The report cites the experiences of 11 women, FBI records, and d…

  • Schadrach
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    2 hours ago

    It’s a simple reality that impeaching Trump and removing him from office requires a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress to vote for to achieve. Without that, the answer is no, he’s not going to be impeached and removed from office. Dems will likely stand in solidarity to push that through, but unless the midterms go in a wildly unlikely direction that’s not going to be enough to get the 2/3 of both houses, which means you are going to need GOP to break ranks, which is varying degrees of unlikely.

    Dems released this report now so it would be fresh in minds for the midterms, because that’s the most impact it’s likely to have while Trump is still in office and they are wildly unlikely to be able to get him out without GOP growing a spine and turning against MAGA (which they won’t do because it hurts their reelection odds).