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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Jan 9, 2021 0:09:50 GMT
Trump's twitter account has been suspended permanently (at last!) If only this had happened 4 years ago  |
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Post by richard on Jan 9, 2021 0:13:38 GMT
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Post by MKAY315 on Jan 9, 2021 0:18:37 GMT
Trump's twitter account has been suspended permanently (at last!) I've seen people get flogged for less on twitter. How he managed to survive that long and suddenly now all these big social media folk are now trying to cancel him makes me laugh. This should have been done years ago. Now imagine if he starts airing out top secret information. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2021 1:02:04 GMT
Trump's twitter account has been suspended permanently (at last!) I've seen people get flogged for less on twitter. How he managed to survive that long and suddenly now all these big social media folk are now trying to cancel him makes me laugh. This should have been done years ago. Now imagine if he starts airing out top secret information. Before, with the threat of a second term looming, he could scare social media sites with a presidential executive order to either curb their operations or shut them down entirely like when he ordered the sale of Tiktok US operations by executive order because of the Chinese state influence in the company that he believed existed even though there was no evidence to suggest this. Now everyone knows Joe Biden is confirmed and verified as the next president there really isn’t anything he could do. If he signed an executive order now Biden would just undo it come January 20th. That I believe is the difference here. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Jan 9, 2021 1:32:37 GMT
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Post by ronnie on Jan 9, 2021 1:49:29 GMT
Trump's twitter account has been suspended permanently (at last!) I've seen people get flogged for less on twitter. How he managed to survive that long and suddenly now all these big social media folk are now trying to cancel him makes me laugh. This should have been done years ago. Now imagine if he starts airing out top secret information. Well the simple answer is that average Jenny and Joe are not POTUS! One can what one wants on equal treatment before the law but then the social media companies, for all their bravado are not stupid to block the president while he is in office. You can only do it when you are sure you won’t get your a*** royally kicked! I must admit though the one action which I would like to be taken and where trump was on the right track was on curbing the power of the social media bosses. We are at a risk of the likes of Facebook becoming too powerful for the greater good. FB in my view is properly creepy nowadays, I almost feel it spies on me. Would be good to see it being broken up or even completely disbanded |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2021 10:21:51 GMT
Trump has been banned permanently from Twitter!
Finally some good news this early on in 2021  |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Jan 11, 2021 17:05:12 GMT
Formal Articles of impeachment have now been introduced at the House of Representatives kicking off the formal impeachment process.
House Republicans have also blocked a measure which would have called Pence to exercise the 25th Amendment and take over from Trump.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2021 21:38:34 GMT
Trump has now been impeached and in doing so has become the first president in US history to be impeached twice. Hopefully the upcoming trial in the senate will find him guilty and he will be barred from standing in future presidential elections. Whilst he’s unlikely to be removed from office the senate will hopefully bar him from future elections.
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Post by SILENCED on Jan 13, 2021 22:02:33 GMT
Trump has now been impeached and in doing so has become the first president in US history to be impeached twice. Hopefully the upcoming trial in the senate will find him guilty and he will be barred from standing in future presidential elections. Whilst he’s unlikely to be removed from office the senate will hopefully bar him from future elections. The sentate may pass it, but it won't get through the house of representatives |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2021 22:13:37 GMT
Trump has now been impeached and in doing so has become the first president in US history to be impeached twice. Hopefully the upcoming trial in the senate will find him guilty and he will be barred from standing in future presidential elections. Whilst he’s unlikely to be removed from office the senate will hopefully bar him from future elections. The sentate may pass it, but it won't get through the house of representatives It has already been approved by the House of Representatives, which is the lower house. The senate is the upper house which is where the trial will take place. If the democrats delay the trial until after Biden is sworn in then providing everything in Georgia goes to plan they will control both the house and the senate, which should make impeachment likely. |
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Post by SILENCED on Jan 13, 2021 22:55:46 GMT
The sentate may pass it, but it won't get through the house of representatives It has already been approved by the House of Representatives, which is the lower house. The senate is the upper house which is where the trial will take place. If the democrats delay the trial until after Biden is sworn in then providing everything in Georgia goes to plan they will control both the house and the senate, which should make impeachment likely. Pretty sure he has to be impeached whilst in office? And need 70% |
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Post by busman on Jan 13, 2021 23:06:21 GMT
It has already been approved by the House of Representatives, which is the lower house. The senate is the upper house which is where the trial will take place. If the democrats delay the trial until after Biden is sworn in then providing everything in Georgia goes to plan they will control both the house and the senate, which should make impeachment likely. Pretty sure he has to be impeached whilst in office? And need 70% Impeachment complete. Senate trial can (and will) take place after he has left office. Unprecedented times we’re living in. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2021 23:12:51 GMT
It has already been approved by the House of Representatives, which is the lower house. The senate is the upper house which is where the trial will take place. If the democrats delay the trial until after Biden is sworn in then providing everything in Georgia goes to plan they will control both the house and the senate, which should make impeachment likely. Pretty sure he has to be impeached whilst in office? And need 70% He can be impeached before leaving office and then placed before the senate after leaving office, I believe he would become the first president to do so after leaving office. Whilst the senate does require a super majority to convict him which it could get if republicans turn on him, something which looks increasingly likely everyday, the senate can also bar him from running as president again with a normal majority which if achieved in the next few days could also be likely. The latter has only been exercised by a sitting senate three times so only requires a normal majority. As the senate is not likely to meet before January 19th one would assume unless they convene a special session that the trial will be held after the inauguration. If convicted Trump would lose his pension and benefits but would retain his secret service detail. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Jan 13, 2021 23:54:44 GMT
Pretty sure he has to be impeached whilst in office? And need 70% He can be impeached before leaving office and then placed before the senate after leaving office, I believe he would become the first president to do so after leaving office. Whilst the senate does require a super majority to convict him which it could get if republicans turn on him, something which looks increasingly likely everyday, the senate can also bar him from running as president again with a normal majority which if achieved in the next few days could also be likely. The latter has only been exercised by a sitting senate three times so only requires a normal majority. As the senate is not likely to meet before January 19th one would assume unless they convene a special session that the trial will be held after the inauguration. If convicted Trump would lose his pension and benefits but would retain his secret service detail. It will be interesting to see how a Senate trial would take place. Mitch McConnell and Trump seem to be on quite poor terms now and McConnell has said the offences Trump committed should require an impeachment, although it looks like he will do this after Trump leaves office, would probably be a mess to remove him while in office through an emergency sitting of the Senate. It might also be in the best interests of McConnell and the rest of the Republicans to ban Trump from running for future office, the sequence of events over the past week shows just how much of a liability he actually is and what a bad reputation he can bring them. If not barred there's a very high chance of him running again in 2024, and with Biden potentially not running again who knows who will be running for the Dems, Trump's cult like following would certainly propel him through the Republican Primaries in 2024 should he run again and once again he will be just as much as a liability, whether he makes it into office or not. Barring him from future office gives the Republicans a decent attempt at seizing the White House back next election, and maybe keeping it afterwards should they put forward a decent candidate. |
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