Edward-Isaac Dovere/Politico
OFF MESSAGE
'Why Tom Steyer Doesn’t Care What Nancy Pelosi Thinks
The billionaire California activist says Democratic leaders who don’t take up the call to impeach Trump are writing off millions of potential voters.'
I agree with Steyer here:
'Impeaching the president of the United States is upsetting the status quo. Anytime in American history that there has been an attempt to upset the status quo, there have been people within the status quo—within the establishment—saying, ‘It may be true, it may be something we should deal with, it may be important, but not now,’” Steyer told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast. “If you look at the civil rights movement, the pushback was not, ‘You’re not telling the truth,’ the pushback was, ‘We’re dealing with it in time. Stand down so we can deal with it in time.’”
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/29/trump-impeachment-democrats-steyer-pelosi-218548
I thought this way before Scumbucket was a twinkle in Cult45's eye, and believe that some of the stepping stones on the yellow brick road that led to this POTUS, were laid by expedient inaction.
As two of the most notable examples, Nixon and Reagan committed high crimes for which they were not held properly accountable partly for the reason Steyer posits 'It may be true, it may be something we should deal with, it may be important, but not now ..' partly because it was expedient for too many of influence, and partly from plain old cowardice.
'A man in a suit is seated at a table as he speaks into a bank of microphones. An audience is visible behind him.
President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing regarding his pardon of Richard Nixon.
A presidential pardon of Richard Nixon (Proclamation 4311) was issued on September 8, 1974, by President Gerald Ford, which granted his predecessor Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president.[1][2] In particular, this covered the time of the Watergate scandal. In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford, who succeeded to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country, and that the Nixon family's situation was "a tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must." '
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
'Unfolding five years into Ronald Reagan’s presidency, around the same point in the second term that Watergate began choking the Nixon administration, Iran-Contra had it all: a wild cast of questionable characters, serious violations of law, secretive foreign partnerships, an extensive cover-up, and a web of orders and directives that traced all the way to the White House.
But in the end, not only did Reagan survive the scandal but so did most of the 14 indicted administration officials, thanks to administration stonewalling and a stack of presidential pardons. As it turns out, the executive is remarkably well equipped to defend itself against investigation, even when pitted against a dogged independent prosecutor.'
www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/25/16020518/trump-iran-contra-reagan-parallels-impeachment