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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The Last Time a White House Faced Impeachment
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(MARK WILSON / WIN MCNAMEE / RICK WILKING / REUTERS / TIMQUO / SHUTTERSTOCK / MARIO TAMA / GETTY / ARSH RAZIUDDIN / THE ATLANTIC)A scandal-plagued president facing...
What’s Harder to Explain to Kids: Sex or Extortion?
The last time a president faced impeachment proceedings, I was aware of the events that precipitated them only from the snippets I overheard from news broadcasts on my parents’ TV. From what I could gather, President Bill Clinton had done something bad, a lady named Monica Lewinsky was involved, and people were mad at both of them about...
If Hunter Biden Is Fair Game, So Are Trump’s Kids
President Donald Trump’s forceful claims that he did nothing wrong in his conversation with Ukraine’s head of state squares with his short-term political interests. But he’s setting a perilous precedent for his children.That wrinkle struck me when I read a defense of Trump in National Review by the Republican political...
Trump Never Learns
Shortly after taking office, Donald Trump asked his aides whether Ukraine, and not Russia, might have hacked Democratic National Committee emails as part of a false-flag operation. Then–Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert tried to stop the idea in its tracks.“It’s not only a conspiracy theory, it is completely debunked,” Bossert said on...
Trump’s Misconduct Could Become the New Norm
The undisputed facts about President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky reveal conduct utterly incompatible with the president’s constitutional duty. Notwithstanding his desperate efforts to cast aspersions on the credibility and loyalty of the Ukraine whistleblower and the many White House...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Following the Hurd
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(Erin Scott / Reuters)Maybe the most fundamental truism in American politics is: Don’t make predictions. But, at least in Congress, if you’re trying to figure...
Bill Clinton Had a Strategy. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.
Donald Trump may have no impeachment war room, but he does have an impeachment strategy. He deployed it this past weekend.It’s the same strategy he brought to his presidential campaign, then to his presidency: all base, all the time. In 1998 and ’99, Bill Clinton directed his anti-impeachment messaging to voters who did not...
The Need for Congressional Oversight Goes Far Beyond Impeachment
As Congress prepares to subpoena witnesses and documents pertaining to the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukrainian President Zelensky, the White House’s reluctance to comply is clear.And more broadly, the Trump administration has been stonewalling congressional investigations from the get-go. After ignoring House subpoenas, the...
Venezuela’s Struggle for Legitimacy Comes to New York
The question came at the very end of a press conference dominated by fevered talk of Ukraine, Joe Biden, and impeachment. You’d be forgiven if you missed it entirely. President Donald Trump encouraged reporters assembled for the United Nations General Assembly to ask him about the booming U.S. economy. He didn’t get his wish. Trump...
A Realist’s Guide to Impeachment
An impeachment of President Donald Trump is both deserved and dangerous. That it’s deserved is clear from each day’s news reports. The danger is getting lost in the rush of events.It’s unlikely that impeachment will find 67 votes in the Senate for removal. The process will almost certainly end with Trump acquitted, and acquitted...
