“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,” Hill said.
Notably absent from Hill’s explanation was any description of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Mayorkas. Hill all but admitted that, with the impeachment, Republicans are aiming to make Mayorkas the face of their anti-Biden, anti-immigrant campaign, despite his having not committed impeachable offenses.”

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    The real “game” here is that they are trying to downplay the seriousness of impeachment. Because their orange clown was impeached twice.

    So they’ll “impeach” anyone they think they can get away with to score points with their ignorant base and to make it seems less serious.

    It’s really shitty and un-American.

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      Yeah I really think this is it. I’m sure it was another directive from Trump to get more impeachments so he can muddy the waters at the rallies. I’m a little surprised they haven’t drummed up a Biden impeachment yet so he can prance around with that one too.

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        It works like a charm.

        Go to a GOP state right now and ask 100 people who Mayorkas is. I will give $100 for every response that is little more than a confused look.

        Now go to those same GOP voters in about 24 hours, after they’ve gotten their daily dose of Fox News and Trump’s dollar-store-twitter knock-off. I’ll give you another $100 for every response that isn’t how suddenly Mayorkas is the root of all evil and the source of all their problems and needs to be impeached because orange man said so.

        These people are lemmings who believe the last thing Trump tells them.