@JMichaelWaller you are right to recall Grant administration, but you and everyone else are missing an elephant in the room. The ONLY out-of-office impeachment in US history was of Secretary of War in Grant administration who enforced Reconstruction (Belknap).
@JMichaelWaller 2/ Democrats took control of House in 1874 and sought to discredit Grant administration. Belknap resigned over allegations of corruption. Many other corruption cases in US history. Why was Belknap impeached out of office? More relentless pursuit than any other official.
@JMichaelWaller 3/ apply usual test: cui bono? Democrats were then dominated by Jim Crow advocates. Impeachment of Belknap undermined the party of Lincoln in 1876 elections, which were closest in US history and not decided until crooked agreement in March 1877.
@JMichaelWaller 4/ the Democrat candidate was ahead 184-165 with 20 electoral votes contested. In the Great Compromise/Betrayal, Rutherford Hayes agreed to Democrat demands for retraction of Reconstruction and withdrawal of federal troops from south, following which Jim Crow policies instituted.
@JMichaelWaller 5/ so the previous out-of-office impeachment - of Grant administration's Secretary of War responsible for Reconstruction in south - led directly to end of Reconstruction and adoption of Jim Crow policies in South. You'd think this would be worth pointing out in Trump defense.
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