Amid the striking similarities between the Trump and Nixon impeachment probes, Ari Melber examines the parallels to the Andrew Johnson impeachment, who was impeached in part for bringing “ridicule and disgrace” to the office of the presidency. Aired on 10/21/19.
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Impeaching A President For Being 'Disgrace' To Office | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
“The biggest, the best disgrace ever…” Baby Donnie deserves that title, a traitor to his own nation,!
@Joe Lesiak FUKOFF U STOOPID DICKHEAD. FACTS MATTER
@Mind Freshener FUKOFF U STOOPID RACIST PIG
@Darren Iwohn FUKOFF STOOPID. U LOVE HANNITIES SOY HOLE
Trump wipes his huge behind on the Constitution in an almost daily basis.
If impeachment isn’t for him, then it isn’t for anyone.
ElSmusso burning the flag was ruled freedom of speech by the Supreme Court just so you know. As a retired serviceman it hurts my heart to see it, it is part of the freedoms I fought for.
ruth depew Everybody knows that the best way to preserve, defend and protect our Constitution is to diss its clauses.
@ruth depew no its not you moron.
@Will Mills Only if the flag is the personal property of the one who burns it. One cannot go rip down a flag just anywhere and burn it. It basically came down to a personal property issue and being able to destroy one’s own personal property. The flag is just a mass produced symbol (mostly produced in China) that anyone can buy. The Constitution, on the other hand, is the entire basis of the establishment of our country and to which all federal officials must take an oath of office to uphold and defend that Constitution as a condition of their service to the country. As we have seen, trump and his entire administration as well as most Republican politicians care more about loyalty to party over that of the Constitution and the country.
Trump has brought the Presidency into disrepute. He is thought of as a CLOWN and a PUPPET by 90% of the leaders of this world. The only ones with him are the Dictators and Despots of the world.
@Darren Iwohn FUKOFF STOOPID. GET BACK TT2 UR TRAILER AND HANNITIES SOY HOLE
@Forrest Trump did you cry when hillary lost ?
Those foreign dictators are only using Trump because they know he’s weak, inarticulate and down right DUMB and will do what they want because he feels the need to be admired and liked.
IMPEACH
REMOVE
ARREST
IMPRISON
and SUPERMAX hotel .
TRY and EXECUTE
If their ever was a case for being a disgrace Donald Dump is it!
America’s stupidest, smarmiest criminals are not only ON DISPLAY TO THE WORLD – that disgrace would be humiliating enough – but they are *EXTORTING, BETRAYING and KILLING AMERICA’S ALLIES* while *ELEVATING AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES.*
These are turbulent and grave times my friends,for the Dictatorship of the Stupid leads our nation.
Will they ever be able to get rid of the stench after that POS has left office?
It will take years, if not decades to remove 45’s stench.
They’ll need to fumigate it for t he bedbugs he brought from the Doral.
“Disgrace to humanity*” FTFY
Biff is not only a disgrace to the office and the US, but possibly, one of the most squalid individuals in human history
The orangeutan boasts uniqueness; first president to be impeached and convicted… for his vast and unmatched wisdom.
Loves to be unprecedented… time to make him unpresidented. Let’s add the only former president to go to jail.
john hopkins True. It has gotten to the point that I have to look away and mute the sound. This is hideous. Did you hear him tonight telling us how he did so much for the Kurds? Then he started in on Obama, all within a few seconds and I deleted him from view.
Very good Ari, you did a Rachel Maddow.
I can understand a “mentality” that holds for not removing a leader because it implies that the country (business corporation etc) made poor choices and was weak and feeble during that time. This view is held by those who wish to be seen by history as ….”see we were strong the whole time and we made good choices.” I take the view that to acknowledge weakness and to remove the problem is to be seen to be STRONG. It says to history…”we acted when we saw the NEED to act. We did the right thing and it was right for the country for the people. I think history will mark these politicians as weak and self serving.
He should be removed as CIC for starters, he is not protecting the US from foreign enemies, rather he is empowering ISIS, Iran and Russia.
True to form Trump is making impeachment bigger and greater than ever before.
OMG! Trump is Johnson reincarnated! That is if Johnson was a mob boss and Russian tool.
Andrew Johnson almost sounds like Trump. Trump has brought nothing to Office but division, treason, ridicule, hatred and fear. Impeach and remove this vermin. Trump is the enemy of America.
If disgrace is the only qualifier, trump should have been impeached right after his inauguration.
This pResident disgraces our species.
Another similarly between Trump and Johnson: like Trump, Johnson was nearly illiterate.
His wife taught him to read in his 20’s.
Probably had the same type base: racist, illiterate and hating the man who was President before him.