A new poll has found that a plurality of Americans want to impeach President Donald Trump.
It was seen by many as a betrayal of his "America first" promise not to involve the country in other nations' affairs or spend taxpayer dollars on military adventures and bombing campaigns.
Some of the most shocking findings of the poll are that Democrats lead in a generic congressional race 49%-38%, Trump's disapproval rate remains flat, however at 54%.
The poll attributed the backlash against Trump to the firing of FBI Director James Comey, as well as widespread opposition to legislation approved by the House of Representatives that would rollback benefits under the healthcare system known as Obamacare. "I'm not saying we should impeach him now, I'm calling for an impeachment investigation". If two-thirds of the Senate vote against a president, he or she would be removed from office. "To wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation's fate to the whims of an authoritarian leader".
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The girls' parents have since filed a complaint with the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League. Mya was removed from the softball team and told she couldn't attend the prom.
"When I chose to just do it, I said to myself, I said "You know, this Russian Federation thing with Trump and Russian Federation is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won", Trump said. There are some important complexities to the Russian Federation scandal, but last week's revelations were straightforward: the president of the United States, furious about an intensifying investigation into his political operation, fired the FBI director in order to help end the investigation. New York's Jon Chait added, "The system is designed so that the only remedy for a president who can not faithfully act in the public interest is impeachment". "To do otherwise would cause some Americans to lose respect for, and obedience to, our societal norms".
In the highly unlikely event of Mr Pence also being impeached then the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, would become president in his place.
This has never happened - though with Andrew Johnson, Congress came close - and there's no reason to believe a pliant GOP majority would even consider such a remedy during Trump's presidency, regardless of merit or public attitudes. 55% of voters wish Obama was in office instead of Trump - only 39% prefer having Trump in office over Obama.
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