Impeach? You mean throw the entire republikkkan party into prison for treason?
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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For once I actually agree with Democratic leadership on this point of election strategy. Unless they win the Senate, a third impeachment wouldn't really accomplish anything. If they win control of the Senate (and can actually get all their people to agree to do it), then an impeachment trial would at least force all of Trump's skeletons out of the closet for the world to see.
I can think of several impeachable offences:
- Bribery, for accepting a jet from Qatar
- Bribery, likely from AI/crypto companies (not proven so far but almost certainly occurred)
- Bribery, for selling pardons
- Sexual assault, a high crime or misdemeanour, for Epstein Island activities
- Being an accomplice to interstate sex trafficking, ditto
- Violations of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a high crime or misdemeanour as the Act doesn't have any other enforcement mechanism, leaving impeachment as the default
- Malfeasance in public office, a high crime or misdemeanour, for all the rather obvious grift arising from the actions that funnel taxpayer funds to enterprises connected with his family
- Together with the acting Attorney-General, conspiring to defraud the United States, a high crime or misdemeanour, concerning the so-called settlement with the IRS for "leaking his tax returns"
agreed, and more:
War powers
- Ordering strikes on Iran's Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear sites (June 2025) without congressional authorization, per Article I, Section 8's grant to Congress of the sole power to declare war (H.Res.537)
- Failing to properly brief congressional leaders in advance despite reportedly notifying some foreign leaders (H.Res.537)
- Continuing the Iran war into 2026, which Larson's office said was driving up prices for American families and costing American lives (April 2026 filing)
- Threatening "a whole civilization will die" and threatening to destroy Iranian infrastructure, which several Democrats (DeGette, Markey, Tlaib) characterized as threatening war crimes
Judiciary
- Calling for a federal judge to be impeached after an adverse ruling (H.Res.939)
- Creating an environment of intimidation against judges, citing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's public statement that attacks on judges "seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity" (H.Res.939)
Congress / incitement
- Calling for the execution of members of Congress, framed as incitement to extrajudicial violence (H.Res.939)
Governance / rule of law (H.Res.353)
- Obstruction of justice
- Violation of due process
- Breach of duty to faithfully execute the laws
- Usurpation of Congress's appropriations power
- Abuse of power
Immigration/ICE enforcement (raised in advocacy filings, not yet a formal resolution)
- Inciting violence, including deaths, in Minnesota and allegedly covering up civilian deaths during ICE operations
- Removing migrants and asylum-seekers to foreign prisons
Corruption / institutional abuse (advocacy filings)
- Personal enrichment for himself or close associates
- Removing nonpartisan civil servants and punishing perceived adversaries
- Using extortion-style tactics against law firms, media, and private industry
Crypto self-dealing
- Trump family launched World Liberty Financial (WLFI) and the $TRUMP memecoin; family gets 75% of token sale proceeds plus stablecoin profits
- Reported earnings: $57M in 2024, growing to roughly $550M by March 2026; personal stake valued around $240M
- Total family enrichment estimated in the billions
Foreign money concerns
- UAE royal family holds a 49% stake in WLFI, arranged before Trump's inauguration and not disclosed at the time
- A UAE-linked firm invested $2B in Binance via WLFI's stablecoin; shortly after, a UAE-controlled company gained access to advanced AI chips
- Dozens of foreign nationals and state-linked entities invested in WLFI's token sale
- Binance (heavily used by WLFI) allegedly let billions flow to Iranian and Russian sanctioned entities while under a DOJ compliance monitor
Alleged quid pro quo / regulatory rollback
- Administration halted or dropped investigations into crypto firms that had invested in or donated to Trump (Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, Robinhood, etc.)
- DOJ's crypto-crime enforcement unit was disbanded
- Trump pardoned figures tied to his crypto ventures, including Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, which critics allege was connected to a deal benefiting WLFI's stablecoin
Oversight activity so far
- Senate inquiry opened by Sen. Blumenthal (2025) into conflicts of interest
- House Judiciary Democrats released a report, "Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption" (Nov. 2025), documenting the pattern.
oh how could I forget, the pardons:
January 6 defendants (mass pardon, January 20, 2025) Roughly 1,500 to 1,600 people received blanket clemency, most as full pardons, 14 (including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders) as commutations. Named individuals include:
- Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keepers founder)
- Enrique Tarrio (Proud Boys)
- Jeremy Bertino
- Thomas Caldwell (initially commuted, pardoned two months later)
- Edward Jacob "Jake" Lang
- Guy Reffitt
- Emily Hernandez
Fake electors plot (Proclamation 10989, November 2025) 77 people pardoned, including:
- Rudy Giuliani
- Mark Meadows
- Sidney Powell
- Jenna Ellis
- Kenneth Chesebro
- John Eastman
Family / personal ties
- Charles Kushner (Jared Kushner's father; pardoned in Trump's first term, 2020, for tax evasion and witness tampering)
Crypto / business associates
- Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Binance founder, pardoned for crimes tied to money laundering and sanctions evasion)
Donors and political allies (fraud/financial crime convictions)
- Trevor Milton (Nikola founder)
- Julio Herrera Velutini (foreign billionaire, bribery charges)
- Timothy Leiweke (Oak View Group CEO)
- Julie and Todd Chrisley (reality TV personalities)
- Brian Kelsey (former Tennessee state senator)
- Imaad Shah Zuberi (venture capitalist, illegal foreign lobbying)
- Marian Morgan (Ponzi scheme operator)
- Jason Galanis (securities fraud, commutation)
- Devon Archer (defrauded Oglala Sioux Nation)
- Adriana Camberos and her brother Andres Camberos (mail and wire fraud)
- Joseph Schwartz (nursing home fraud)
Political corruption cases
- Rod Blagojevich (former Illinois governor)
- Rep. Henry Cuellar (bribery indictment)
- Rep. George Santos (commutation)
- Tina Peters (Colorado county clerk, state-level pardon, had no federal effect)
- Wanda Vázquez Garced (former Puerto Rico governor, bribery charges)
- Glen Casada and Cade Cothren (Tennessee public corruption case)
Other ones
- Michele Fiore (former Las Vegas councilwoman)
- James Womack (commutation; son of a sitting Republican congressman)
- Five former NFL players: Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, and the late Billy Cannon (posthumous)
i’m sure there’s so much more
He has been impeached, twice. What will a third impeachment accomplish?
It's crazy how few people know this.
Further entrench impeachment as a meaningless charade if you just bluster and bravado your way through it, castigating your political opponents as monsters persecuting the picture of innocence.
So the majority of Americans, but not the majority of American representatives? Interesting…
No shit...there are ground to impeach and finally FUCKING CONVICT