• ksynwa
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    4 years ago

    Wait how does this work? Isn’t he already gone from the office?

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      4 years ago

      He can still be convicted of his crimes while he was in office. Impeachment happened when he was still president, this is just the trial phase of that.

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        Also, if convicted, he would lose ex-president benefits (like taxpayer-funded Secret Service), and would be unable to run for office in the future. (which is reason enough, imo)