Conservative Columnist Calls for Trump to Be Impeached, Removed From Office. Here's Why He's Wrong.

Conservative Columnist Calls for Trump to Be Impeached, Removed From Office. Here's Why He's Wrong.

DukeFollow @irishduke2

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Some days, I do not know why I read the paper, and I want to shake my head at it and give up reading about politics altogether.

Sunday might have been one of those days for me after Election Day.

Now, to be honest, after last Tuesday's election, the blue tsunami that was delivered by the Democrats to almost all Republicans running, I've been a little bit downtrodden. Luckily, I've done this long enough and understand that you win some, you lose some, and you go from there. 

Yet I still ventured out to read about what is going on in the world around me, and my blood went cold. Ice cold. 

Why?

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Columnist Nolan Finley of the Detroit News did it to moi.

Some people who happen to be columnists have decided to take their potshots at Trump. Not that we haven't seen that before, and I should have expected this a couple of weeks before the election, but I didn't, for some reason.

So here we go.

From Finley's Detroit News column titled "Republicans shouldn't block Democrats from impeaching Trump":

Donald Trump cost a lot of Republican senators their jobs in the Nov. 3 election. Those who remain in the chamber shouldn't help the president keep his.

The anti-Trump wave moved at least seven seats from Republican to Democrat, with two more still to be settled.

The argument will be made for a while about how bad this election was and also how much Donald Trump had to do with it. I know that will be debated for a bit, and it is totally expected and should be welcomed by anyone who claims to love this country.

Many of those flipped seats were held by senators Trump threatened, including John Cornyn in Texas and Thom Tillis in North Carolina. Trump has maintained his iron grip on the GOP by purging dissenters from the Republican Party. Among the byproducts of the blue tsunami is that it loosened that hold. Candidates the president backed lost across the country, including in Michigan. Donald Trump is no longer a political force to be feared. He has ruined the Republican Party and is owed no fealty.

Then Nolan drops this...

They'll need 13 more to meet the threshold. Republicans should give Democrats those votes.

The first thing I did was do the math in my head, and they are close to what Mr. Finley said. Yet his claim of poisoning the Republican brand if Trump remains in office for the next two years is quite nonsensical to me, and that Trump should be impeached is silly.

Then-President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, and the House of Representatives had not even held a hearing on impeachment yet. However, before the new Congress is even sworn in, we are being told that 13 Republican senators, without even hearing what Donald Trump has done, should go along with Democrats and impeach a duly elected president?

List the charges and go through the process laid out in the Constitution and have votes in both chambers, and let's see what happens.

I fully understand why people do not like Donald Trump. I'm positively sure that if I went ahead and put out a list and asked for suggestions, liberals and maybe some conservatives or people in the middle could fill in reasons why he should be removed.

Yet that is not what the founders intended: for somebody who is elected by the whole country to be thrown aside on a whim.

So, with all due respect to people who are critics and happen to call themselves conservative, let's do a slow roll on removing somebody who was elected by the vast majority of the people of this country.

You may not like the results, but unless someone comes forward with a better plan than what has worked for over 200 years, how about we not throw the current system in the trash like the lefties wanted to just two years ago.

Sounds about right, I think.

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The Real Reason Democrats Are Talking About Impeaching Trump Officials

The Real Reason Democrats Are Talking About Impeaching Trump Officials

Matt MargolisFollow @mattmargolis

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Democrats have wanted to impeach President Donald Trump since before he was even elected the first time. They drew up plans before his first inauguration in 2017, followed through twice, and never let go of the idea after voters sent him back to the White House in 2025. Plenty of Democrats are salivating over the prospect of a third round. Yet incoming House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries keeps publicly downplaying the talk.

"The American people don't want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive," Jeffries insisted last week.

I don’t buy it, but the fact he’s downplaying impeachment talk against Trump is telling. While Jeffries has stayed coy about Trump himself, there’s a lot more willingness to openly talk about going after the people around the president. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. and Todd Blanche have both come up. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) has already introduced articles of impeachment against White House Budget Director Russell Vought over a budget dispute.

And then there's the big one, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

"I'm a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran," Jeffries told host Jonathan Karl on ABC News's This Week.

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Hegseth responded to Jeffries on Tuesday at his first formal Pentagon news conference since May. He touted historic gains in acquisition speed, recruitment, and retention while managing a still-tense standoff in the Strait of Hormuz. Then he turned to the impeachment push from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a lame duck in his final days in Congress after losing his primary earlier this year. Hegseth wasted no time branding the effort "a farce" and "a stunt."

What "one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment," Hegseth said. He added that it aimed to damage the president, the country, and "most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it."

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Hegseth then laid out what looked a lot like a preview of his legal defense. "In the 250 years of our American Republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations. And in our case, successful ones at that. Not once," he said. "Not under Reagan in Lebanon. Not under Clinton in Kosovo. Not under Obama in Iraq and Syria. Not under Biden in Iraq and Syria."

He also reminded reporters of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. "Five years ago, America was humiliated in Kabul, Afghanistan, and every enemy on Earth took notice. But somehow… no impeachment," Hegseth said. Lloyd Austin survived that fiasco, his week-long disappearance, and the Chinese spy balloon without facing a single article of impeachment or even a forced resignation.

Massie's effort, Hegseth argued, would "shred" that standard.

"That's what it is. Policy disagreements. Not high crimes. Not misdemeanors. Not treason. Not bribery," he said. He called the Iran campaign, the strikes on the Houthis, and the capture of Nicolás Maduro "historic" accomplishments by the troops. "If you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or nabbing Nicolás Maduro, you're taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished," he added.

He's not wrong.

Democrats are weaponizing impeachment over policy disagreements. So why is Jeffries playing it so cool on Trump? Let's be honest, here. Trump remains the ultimate goal. Everyone in Washington knows it.

Here's why Jeffries is publicly circling the cabinet first.

Let’s start with the math. Democrats may have the votes to impeach in the House, but they lack the votes to convict in the Senate. They could potentially pick off a few weak Republicans against a cabinet secretary. Against Trump, those votes vanish, and the whole exercise backfires the way it did twice before.

Targeting Trump officials carries less risk. At the very least, the pressure could potentially force personnel changes and give the base something to point to as proof that the Democrat majority is doing what it wants. More importantly, it works as a trial run. And Hegseth makes the ideal first target because Democrats get to march behind a Republican sponsor and call the whole thing bipartisan, while betting that opposition to the Iran war shakes loose enough GOP votes to make it stick.

Jeffries can pretend that Democrats are focused on affordability all he wants. His party has turned impeachment into a routine political weapon, and it is testing that weapon on the president's team before aiming it back at the president himself.

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Mamdani’s Staff Is Panicking As Their ICE Favor Pipeline Just Hit a Brick Wall Named Stephen Miller

Mamdani’s Staff Is Panicking As Their ICE Favor Pipeline Just Hit a Brick Wall Named Stephen Miller

Rusty WeissFollow @Rusty_Weiss

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Zohran Mamdani's reported favor line to the White House may have just gone dead thanks to Stephen Miller.

The communist New York City mayor has quietly been asking President Trump's team to release individuals held in ICE custody, according to a Monday report from Politico.

Sources and quotes from Mamdani himself show that his inexplicably cordial relationship with the President had previously expanded into an open line of communication on specific immigration enforcement issues. According to Politico, that communication came through former Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

It began in February, when Mamdani persuaded Trump during a White House sit-down to free Columbia University student Elmina Aghayeva, who had been detained by federal immigration agents earlier in the day.

Mamdani pointed to her release as proof that his surprising relationship with Trump could deliver for New Yorkers. What nobody knew at the time was that he kept going back to the well.

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Since then, Mamdani and his staff have handed Trump's team the names of about two dozen more immigrant New Yorkers in ICE custody and asked the president to order their release, according to two people with knowledge of the outreach. The most recent list reportedly came during Mamdani's September meeting with Trump at Gracie Mansion. 

Of course, this whole tale rests on two anonymous sources, and even Politico admits it can't confirm that a single name on that list has walked free. That's an odd result for a president who is supposedly listening to favor requests. And the lack of tangible results fits the man who has made mass deportations the centerpiece of his agenda.

Mamdani's aides allegedly worked the requests mostly through Wiles, who has since left the White House. Aside from Aghayeva, Politico claims Mamdani was able "to secure a short-term visa for a woman from Ghana whose son was fatally shot in the Bronx."

"Other than that, not much substantive has materialized between the two ..." the outlet adds.

“Over the course of these conversations, we have been able to free a New Yorker from ICE detention," Mamdani said in an interview with Fox News. "We have been able to secure a visa for a grieving mother who would otherwise have to watch her son be buried from thousands of miles away."

The game, though, has apparently shifted with President Trump's move to name Miller his new Chief of Staff, replacing Wiles. As expected, Miller is making many people on the left nervous.

And that includes Mamdani's team, who fear the hardline immigration-enforcement advocate will be less responsive to requests from Gracie Mansion. 

Politico reports there is growing concern inside the mayor's administration that whatever door of communication was open is now closing since it seems "unlikely that Miller, given his posture on immigration, will keep playing ball in the same way Wiles did."

Good. Miller is making the right people antsy.

Murad Awawdeh, a close Mamdani ally, had a strange way of trying to keep their foot in the door.

“Stephen Miller is a cruel man who has spent his career targeting immigrants, but he is not the president. Donald Trump is, and the deportation agenda is his,” he said. “New York expects the president to work with the mayor, deliver for this city, and end the terror in our neighborhoods. Promoting Miller changes none of that.”

New York shouldn't "expect" anything, and I'm not sure the right approach to keep a cordial relationship alive is to insult the new Chief of Staff.

Trump, for his part, has come out and reiterated his tough stance on criminal illegal aliens.

"We have a very strong deportation policy, there's no amnesty, there's no anything, we keep that," he told reporters. "But, we focus on the worst of the worst. We want the murderers out. We've gotten most of them out ... We want to get the worst of the worst, and then we'll see what happens."

Mamdani has supposedly been slipping names to the White House, but the guy answering the phone now is Miller. Something tells me that list is headed straight for the shredder.

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DHS Secretary Says He’s Open to Deal That Includes DACA Permanent Legal Status, But Not Amnesty

DHS Secretary Says He’s Open to Deal That Includes DACA Permanent Legal Status, But Not Amnesty

Brett T.Follow @TwitchyBrett

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After suffering a devastating election loss last Tuesday, the last thing conservatives needed was to tune into 60 Minutes and hear President Donald Trump, who was elected on the promise of mass deportations, tell Ross Douthat that, in retrospect, maybe his deportation policy was "too tough."

Rapid Response 47 got into it with The Blaze, which used the word "amnesty," and got a Community Note for its efforts.

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

“But people who are here, and in some cases here for 10 or 15 years, work a deal for them.”

That’s the same thing as amnesty.

Politico's Sophia Cai says that she talked to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday morning, who "draws a red line on amnesty" but says he's open to an immigration deal that includes permanent legal status for DACA recipients.

The post continues:

… ‘let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point.’” W/ @MyahWard

Better yet, let's ramp up deportations for the two years we have left and not meet at some middle point.

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@SophiaCai99 Do it. And then see what happens to the Republican Party. It will cease to exist. Fucking do it.

— … (@happyhawaii007) November 9, 2026

Again, we're still licking our wounds from less than a week ago. We don't need this.

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