Thread by @tburages

Time for Impeachment Playoffs Round 3! Got your brackets ready?

We're down to The Appalling 32

(Well, it WAS going to be 32, but we've had to add two more impeachable offenses added last two days and it's getting a little hard to keep up with all the treasoning so it's 34.)

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Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the U.S. State Department for dirty political operations

2. Disclosing highly classified intelligence to Russian officials, thus requiring the U.S. to exfiltrate a key asset

Which is more impeachable?

1. Firing Comey because of “that Russia thing” and bragging to Kremlin officials about it

2. Using the power of the Presidency to persuade Michael Cohen to lie to investigators about hush money payments

Which is more impeachable?

1. Declaring a willingness to collude with Russia again to win an election

2. Ordering Don McGahn to file a false document to obstruct an investigation

Which is more impeachable?

1. Allowing Saudi Arabia to formulate U.S. foreign policy

2. Politically motivated firings and prosecutions of all high-level officials who investigated Russia’s attack on U.S. sovereignty

Which is more impeachable?

1. Helping the Saudis whitewash the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

2. Continuously working on behalf of Putin to remove Russian sanctions

Which is more impeachable?

1. Secret deal to provide nuclear technology to the Saudis

2. Using the office of President to tamper with a jury (Manafort trial)

Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the power of the Presidency to persuade Manafort and Gates to lie to investigators

2. Witness Intimidation: threatening potential whistle-blowers with execution.

Which is more impeachable?

1. Attempting to limit the Special Counsel investigation to future interference only

2. Using the U.S. military to raise revenue at Trump Turnberry

Which is more impeachable?

1. Obstruction of Congress

2. Ordering Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller

Which is more impeachable?

1. Ordering Federal workers to break the law to build his Wall. And promising pardons if they are caught.

2. Overturning Security Clearance denials for individuals deemed a threat to national security

Which is more impeachable?

1. Refusal to defend the United States from an enemy attack (elections security).

2. Attacks on U.S. Intelligence agencies

Which is more impeachable?

1. Obstruction of Justice: Asking the FBI Director to end an investigation into Michael Flynn

2. Aiding Russia by intimidating United States intelligence professionals

Which is more impeachable?

1. Subverting the Department of Justice

2. Betrayal in Helsinki

Which is more impeachable?

1. Perjury (false written answers to Mueller)

2. Directing Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal and prosecute Hillary Clinton

Which is more impeachable?

1. Coordination with Russia to win the 2016 election

2. Human Rights abuses at the border

Which is more impeachable?

1. Wielding the full power of the U.S. Presidency to force Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election.

2. Suborning perjury from Michael Cohen

Which is more impeachable?

1. Hiding potentially illegal conversations with foreign leaders in a highly classified server (obstruction)

2. Violation of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments clause

Jeez louise that parenthetical was poorly worded. I guess trying to keep up with all the criminality is more exhausting than I thought ....