Impeach: Quinn Volpe

Clare Scala

Quinn Volpe, supports the impeachment of president Trump.

The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause prohibits the president from accepting personal benefits from any foreign government or official, but he did this by talking to a foreign government about someone who is likely to be his opponent in the 2020 election (Joe Biden). He repeatedly tried to stop Robert Mueller’s investigation against him through trying but failing to fire Mueller. Mueller has also explicitly said that if Trump was not president, he would probably be in a lot of trouble with the law. During Trump’s campaign for president in 2016 his son was invited to talk to a Russian national about something that would incriminate Hillary Clinton, and federal law prohibits campaigns from soliciting anything of value from a foreign national. From the very beginning of his presidency, he threatened nuclear war over Twitter. He called Nazis and white supremacists very fine people instead of condoning their violent actions after Charlottesville. Over and over again, Trump attacks the free and independent press and says that news sources are “fake news” when they report on things that he has done wrong, therefore, undermining our freedom of the press. I used to think that discussing impeachment was a distraction from more important issues, but this has gone too far. Trump is unfit for office and should not be the president of the United States- he needs to be held accountable for his actions.