High Crimes, Misdemeanors, and the Future of the US Presidency 🇺🇸
In this episode, Mattimore sits down with Hence, The Future's political correspondent, Brett Ewer, to discuss how the current impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is likely to play out...
Key Questions:
- What’s the most charitable interpretation of the phone call between Donald Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine?
- What’s the most realistic interpretation of these events?
- Who’s at fault: Trump, Rudy, Trump’s Cabinet, Zelensky, Barr, others?
- What's the process for impeaching and removing a US president?
- Does the phone call between Trump and Zelensky fall in the category of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors?”
- What’s similar different about Trump’s impeachment inquiry as opposed to that of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and Andrew Johnson?
- What’s the history of the whistleblower process and how has that factored into this inquiry?
- How will impeachment affect into the 2020 election?
- How will impeachment affect the Democratic candidates?
- What do the polls indicate regarding public support for and against impeachment?
- How have left wing and right wing media covered this incident, respectively, thus far?
- How has media coverage in general changed since previous impeachments took place?
- What are the main talking points used by Republicans to defend this incident?
- What are the dangers that Republicans face if they do or don’t support impeachment?
- How long will the impeachment process take, and what are the likely next steps and final outcome?
Future Scenarios:
- Worst Case Scenario
- Best Case Scenario
- Most Likely Scenario
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