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Text by Mikala Mikrut, Copyright 2019
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There Will Be Hell Toupee!
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Donald J. Trump: our 45th and current president of the United States. Businessman, TV personality, and avid Twitter participant. This 73 year old, 6′ 3″ man has been quite the talk lately. He’s also been on the tail end of recent articles and memes. The same country who elected him is desperately finding reasons to impeach him.
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two presidents that have been formally impeached by Congress and no president of the United States have ever been removed from office through impeachment. Only two other of our presidents have faced formal impeachment inquiries in the House of Representatives: Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. It was intentionally made difficult by the framers of the Constitution to remove a sitting president. The House of Representatives starts the impeachment process with a formal impeachment inquiry. The members of the House Judiciary Committee write and pass articles of impeachment if sufficient grounds are found, then go to the full House to vote.
Political corruption is defined as, “the abuse of public power, office, or resources by elected government officials for personal gain, by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes. It can also take the form of office holders maintaining themselves in office by purchasing votes by enacting laws which use taxpayers’ money.” According to Robert Reich, the impeachment inquiry is still essential even though Trump won’t lose his job. It seems like there’s never been such a push to get a president out of office before. Regardless, it’s impressive that one man can rack up the trifecta of corruption in less than a term: sex, money, and power control.
Reportedly, Trump has used high office to line his own pockets just like Vice President Spiro Agnew, who took kickbacks on government contracts as governor of Maryland. The two great presidential scandals before Watergate also involved money. Trump’s effort to silence Stormy Daniels from publicizing their relationship eventually sent his former lawyer, Michael Cohen to jail. There would undoubtedly be other reasons (criminal misconduct?) to impeach the man who bragged about grabbing women’s genitals on tape if any of the almost 20 women who accused him of sexual harassment had a chance to speak in court. There is also evidence of attempting to coerce a vulnerable foreign government into providing dirt on a political opponent in the Ukraine affair.
So what will it be? Is Trump within his rights to behave as he has been or is he a tyrant at the end of his sinning spree? At the end of the day, we did elect him and as his term comes to an end it is still our responsibility to vote and make it known whether or not this is the America we want to keep or change. There certainly seems to be a dichotomy when it comes to peoples’ opinions on Trump. Let’s just say there didn’t seem to be this much drama surrounding Obama.
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About The Author: Mikala Mikrut is a junior enrolled at Southern Utah University. To access additional articles by Mikala Mikrut, click here: http://tonywardstudio.com/blog/mikala-mikrut-romance-with-horror/