MaddowBlog-Trump wants Sen. Jack Reed to be impeached, which is foolish for all sorts of reasons

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The president responded furiously when the Rhode Island Democrat let Fox News viewers in on a secret that Trump desperately wants to deny.

Why did Trump call for Sen. Jack Reed’s impeachment (which isn’t possible in our system government)?

Because the senator let Fox viewers in on a secret: Obama’s JCPOA was a success, and Trump’s “deal” with Iran pales by comparison.
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Trump, evidently, saw the interview and responded in a decidedly Trumpian way. The Hill reported:

President Trump on Sunday called for the impeachment of Democratic Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), after the lawmaker criticized his decision to pull out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in his first term.

“Senator Jack Reed, a Dumocrat from R.I., lied when stating the the [sic] Deal we just made is not as good as the Obama disaster known as the JCPOA. Reed is either an outright fraud, or incompetent,” Trump wrote in a Sunday post on Truth Social.

The Republican’s missive, which referred to former President Barack Obama as “Obuma,” concluded, “Impeach Jack Reed!”

To be sure, Trump’s online tantrums have become the background noise of our civic lives and are, for the most part, worth ignoring. This one stood out for me, however, for a few reasons.

First, the idea that a U.S. official should be impeached for arguing one policy is preferable to another policy is ridiculous, even by 2026 standards.

Second, Trump keeps calling for members of Congress to be impeached despite the inconvenient fact that, at least in this country, members of Congress cannot be impeached.

It’s the sort of thing a sitting American president really ought to know. Trump no longer has any excuses for flunking Civics 101 tests, since he’s no longer the rookie who got elected despite never having served a day in any governmental capacity. Trump is now in the sixth year of his presidency, and he has had time to familiarize himself with the basics of how Washington, D.C., works.

But perhaps most important is why the president responded so furiously to Reed’s comments in the first place. The senator was letting Fox News viewers in on a secret that Trump desperately wants to deny: The Obama-era deal with Iran was a generational success story, which Trump abandoned for reasons he has struggled to explain and which created the very problems Trump’s war set out to solve.

On a daily basis lately, the Republican incumbent has railed with varying degrees of hysteria about Obama and the JCPOA, and there’s no great mystery as to why: Trump seems to understand his deal will be compared against Obama’s, and it’s apparently become a point of preoccupation.

trump had never read the US Constitution and really does NOT care about the US Constitution. Senators and members of Congress can NOT be impeached. This is very basic and only an idiot would NOT know this

[pat_k]

1. He doesn't know members of the House or Senate can't be impeached?

The man who "knows everything," the "stable genius" doesn't know anything about the process of expulsion? That is, only the House can expel a member of the House, only the Senate can expel a member of the Senate, and in either case, it requires a 2/3's vote. And last I looked trumpublicans make up a bare majority.

His ignorance is particularly bizarre given that, if memory serves, he was supposedly enlightened on this point the last time he called for impeachment of a member of Congress.

[2naSalit]

2. 'Off with their heads!'

The red queen hath spoken.

He can't die soon enough.