Impeachment is the Best Option
It seems clear that most people have forgotten the denouement of the Watergate scandal, which was mostly over on the day that Richard Nixon, the reason for the scandal, resigned as President of the United States, August 9, 1974. The evidence that caused Nixon to resign emerged only shortly before he chose to do so. This is why the House should begin impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Richard Nixon was very different from Donald Trump. Nixon was smart and thoughtful and had spent eight years as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower, the last responsible Republican president. He understood the federal government and how it is supposed to work.
Trump is stupid and thoughtless, had zero experience in government before becoming president, does not understand what a constitution is nor anything about what ours contains or the government it defines.
It seems unlikely that he will be smart enough to resign.
All the more reason why the House of Representatives should impeach him.
Nixon resigned shortly after the House Judiciary Committee voted out an article of impeachment against him. But the event that precipitated his decision to resign was a visit to the Oval Office by Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, himself a former presidential candidate and possibly the most famous Republican in the…
