Post #3542258
2026-07-02 06:49 UTC
and then the peanut gallery goes, "but he got impeached!"
no, he didnt.
he got tried for articles of impeachment, and acquitted both times.
Acquitted.
Seriously, not mentioning that major fucking fact is a bit telling.
A person acquitted of a crime is NOT GUILTY. You don't say they were a criminal just because they got charged...
This fucking country. Are people really this stupid?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/acquit
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@bweller@mstdn.social 2026-07-02 06:57
it is intellectual dishonesty of the highest order to hand wave at 'impeachment' to imply he was impeached by trying to encompass the process of trying a person for articles of impeachment but elide the finding itself, the actual 'impeachment' which triggers removal "on impeachment", per the Constitution's verbatim text, when the literal, factual, raw, indisputable truth is that he was acquitted. not impeached.