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Edmund Burke, a supporter of the American colonists and outspoken critic of corruption, summarizes the impeachment charge of the Commons against one of the most corrupt colonial administrators in the history of the British Empire. The Lords acquitted. So?

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I charge Mr. Hastings... with having destroyed, for private purposes, the whole system of government by the six provincial councils which he had no right to destroy..... I charge him with taking bribes of Gunga Govind Sing (Ganga Govind Singh, Maharaja of Benares) .....
I charge him with having robbed those people from whom he took the bribes. I charge him with having fraudulently alienated the fortunes of widows. I charge him with having ... taken the lands of orphans and given them to wicked persons under him. ......
..... and with having destroyed the landed interests, cruelly harassed the peasants, burnt their houses, seized their crops, tortured and degraded their persons, and destroyed the honour of the whole female race of that country."
Read Edmund Burke's impeachment charge against the de facto Governor General of India Warren Hastings and you see that Hastings was a lot like @realDonaldTrump.
We fought the American Revolution so we would NEVER have a man like that rule over us.
Impeach and convict NOW!
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