The odds are good that Trump either knows you cannot impeach members of Congress and is deliberately misleading people about it, or doesn’t know and doesn’t care
If you accuse Donald Trump of anything, he will reciprocate whether it makes any sense or not. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Look, I get it: Impeachment is rare and complicated. I wrote a lengthy explainer on the whole thing, and I’m still learning about its nuances.
Trouble is, impeachment is a constitutional remedy for abuse of power limited to members of the executive and judicial branches of office, as levied by Congress. It’s not available for members of Congress themselves, as the Washington Post laconically noted:
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