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Reasons to Impeach Trump Post-presidency

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Even though Trump will already be out of office, he should be impeached. There are a lot of reasons. Here are eight of them. Please help me build the list.

  1. Cut Him Off From Intelligence Briefings: Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee say s that Trump should be cut off from intelligence briefings after his presidency ends, because he is an intelligence risk. Impeachment would make it official. Trump could be a risk to national security. Eliminate it with impeachment.
  2. Seek Justice. Trump thought that as president, he was above the law. He routinely engaged in illegal, unconstitutional actions. He must be brought to justice, charged, and convicted of his crimes-- first by the senate and after, by the federal and state courts. Future presidents must be shown that there is ultimate accountability.
  3. Shame him and minimize his influence and power. He is already becoming a pariah. But he still has potential power to influence. As a traitor and law breaker, certified by his conviction in the Senate as the only president to have ever been impeached and convicted, Trump's corrupt, pathological influence will be diminished greatly.
  4. Heal the country. Moving on is important, but to do so there has to be accountability. If the Republican party participates in convicting Trump they will be making serious progress towards the healing of the rifts in the country that Trump so aggressively fomented and too many Republicans helped promote.
  5. Stop the Trump Grift. Trump's demand upon the secret service has been incredibly heavy and abusive. He required secret service people to get rooms at his hotels and rent golf carts. There is every reason to believe that he will continue to milk the system. As a past president he gets secret service security for life. He should lose that when he is impeached.
  6. Define Trump's History and Legacy: Impeachment will confirm that Trump was a traitorous, corrupt criminal. This is important because future presidents must know that the system will, eventually come back to bite them with justice. Trump must face a future where he encounters near universal contempt. Whether he ends up in prison, he must face a world where he is despised, laughed at and never taken seriously
  7. Send a Message to children, to history: that behavior like Trump's will not be tolerated. His behavior cost him his title, his future, the benefits of having been the president and defines him as a bad person.

Reasons Republicans Will Like

  1. Prevent Him From Running For Office Again: if impeached he won't be able to run for office again. That should move the members of the senate who are possible candidates-- Rubio, Cruz, Cotton, Romney-- to name a few-- to consider voting for impeachment.
  2. Rehabilitate The Republican Brand: As Trump exits the presidency with the lowest ratings of any recent president and the lowest in his time as president, he is a taint upon the reputation of the Republican party. That's not the case for most Registered Republicans, but the only way Republicans win is with independents and a small percentage of Democrats. A bad rep hurts that.
  3. Diminish his influence and power in the Republican Party: Trump's leadership is not based on strategy, smarts, wisdom, knowledge or insight. It's based on his narcissistic self interests-- not really what the Republicans need for genuine leadership.

Any more reasons. Please add them in the comments.

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