Thread by @SethAbramson

I wonder how many Americans realize that Bribery is one of just two impeachable offenses specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and the case that Donald Trump has now committed that crime dozens of times in his second term is a legal slam dunk.

So shall we get started?

To be very clear, I'm not saying that there is a single federal elected official within the Republican Party who believes in this country or cares about this country or honors our rule of law and would vote to impeach.

I am saying that fact must be the national conversation now.

The case for impeachment is not academic, hypothetical, partisan, opaque, obscure, confusing, highly technical, or any other adjective denoting a distance from the lived reality of every American.

President Donald Trump has openly committed Bribery, and we all watched him do it.

His crypto scam is an impeachable offense because it meets the statutory definition of the federal felony of Bribery, and Bribery is specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution as an offense warranting immediate impeachment of the sitting President of the United States.

The national conversation hardly even needs to be about the fact of this impeachable offense, as no one questions any of the core facts undergirding the allegation, it actually needs to be about why Republicans no longer believe in the U.S. Constitution and our rule of law.

But wait! It gets much, much better.

There can be no argument that Democrats are not serious about enforcing federal Bribery statutes equitably, as the entire party just enthusiastically supported the conviction of one of its most powerful members (Menendez) for that very crime.

But beyond this, the focus of the Trump Administration has thus far been one theme: Everyone We Dislike Politically or Because of Their Demographic Is Openly or Secretly a Criminal, and If Not We’ll Find a Way to Make It So.

Yet Trump is a one-man crime-wave. Maybe explore that?

And does it help that he’s already a 34-times-convicted felon, but major media feels it has no current reason to remind anyone of that? Does it help that he incited an armed insurrection, pardoned his Seditious (Co-)Conspirators, is a serial sexual predator and has untried cases?

Does it help that Trump-Russia and Trump-Ukraine were Bribery scandals—but never reported by media (or investigated by DOJ) on those grounds? Does it help that he just reinstituted the slave trade, and is undoubtedly the greatest villain since the Civil War on that ground alone?

How about the fact that he’s an adjudicated rapist, has been accused of Sexual Assault by 30 women (and God knows how many others he or his agents bought off or threatened), and that his actions with respect to Russia border on the *other* enumerated impeachable offense, Treason?

The benefit(s) to the average working American in starting the impeachment conversation are it confirms we all live under the same rule of law, it gets Americans justice for lies Trump told to get re-elected (e.g., lies about pardons), and saves us from The Madness of King Trump.

But if you’re a more practical sort, I’d note that it’d also saves us *so much* money.

Trump is outspending Biden, his golf trips and parades will kill us, he’s going to waste hundreds of billions on a Golden Dome he was told won’t work, and he crashed our economy—deliberately.

Democrats should make the midterms a referendum on whether Trump should be removed from office, as 1) it’s the right framework for analyzing how he’s destroying America, 2) Democrats need to win the midterms to impeach and 3) it makes it harder for Trump to steal/cancel the vote.