Trump is defeating himself

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While cruel, Donald Trumpโ€™s latest atrocity, pausing the Medicaid portal, is also political suicide. Cutting off funding from certain benefits portals means millions of American citizens are inconvenienced at best and put in fear for their lives at worst. While itโ€™s true that these citizens are, for the most part, America’s weakest and most voiceless citizens, they can still vote, and Republican members of Congress know this.

Itโ€™s also illegal. Brendan Boyle, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, puts it this way: โ€œThere is no grey area here. There is no question that what [Trump] is doing is unlawful and unconstitutional.โ€

Boyle also pointed out that this isnโ€™t new. Richard Nixon attempted to do the same thing fifty years ago when he decided he would not release certain funds Congress already appropriated. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against him. Toward the end of his presidency, Nixon was compelled to sign into law the Budget Impoundment and Control Act, which enshrined further into law the unbending principle that Congressional funding is inviolate, especially from the president. In other words, Trump simply canโ€™t do what he just tried to do.

The good news is, millions of American citizens who rely on the very programs Trump is trying to steal from them donโ€™t know this and theyโ€™re scared. Fear aids memory, and the 2026 elections are just 17 months away. And you can bet between now and then Trump will commit many stupid and politically suicidal crimes that will make his attempt to deny Americans Medicaid look like jaywalking.

Now is the time for articles of impeachment. Democrats in the House need to start drafting them now. They need to include Trumpโ€™s ruthless, greedy and illegal attempt to cancel Medicaid. They need to include his draconian orders to law enforcement to blatantly violate the 4th amendment in furtherance of seeking out illegal aliens. They need to include Trumpโ€™s wilful pardons of thousands of lawless and violent traitors. They need to include Trumpโ€™s corrupt firing of inspectors general so he can conduct unlawful business free of oversight. They need to include the Constitutionally proven FACT that Trumpโ€™s presence in the Oval Office is a violation of the 14th amendment.

Every time Trump violates the law or commits a presidential misdemeanour, he needs to have articles of impeachment drafted against him so that everyone can read specifically how the law was violated or how he went afoul of presidential decorum. This will help ensure that Democrats regain the House and the Senate in November of 2026 in overwhelming numbers. Then all those articles of impeachment can be gathered together in one place and the Senate can try him โ€” in public. And maybe, just maybe, weโ€™ll have enough Democrats and disgusted Republicans to convict him and boot him the hell out.

I remember proposing a similar idea way back in 2018. I was told by some horrified readers that impeaching and convicting Trump would that mean Mike Pence would take over and โ€œheโ€™s worse.โ€ I wonder how that idea is working for them now?

Letโ€™s be clear on something: nobody is worse than Donald Trump. Not Mike Pence, not JD Vance, not even Marjorie Cretin Greene. Trump is in a class all by himself. But if members of Congress are worried about JD Vance then they can impeach him too, and then weโ€™ll have President Hakeem Jeffries. Itโ€™s time to start the long and tedious road to getting rid of Donald Trump for good. And itโ€™s up to House Democrats to begin. Right now.

Dear Palmer Report readers: it's Bill Palmer. I'm as sick of Trump as you are. I'm expanding Palmer Report's operations so we can lead the fight against Trump. Click here to donate $25 or $50.