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US PRESIDENT’S IMPEACHMENT

Republicans face Hobson’s

choice: Either withdraw

Trump or face humiliation

With the full House Congressional approval of Impeaching
President Trump, the decks are now being cleared for regular
impeachment of President Trump before the Senate that too
just 10 months before the presidential elections scheduled on
Tuesday, November three, 2020. It is alleged that Ukraine has been
threatened to support President Donald Trump in the forthcoming
presidential poll by ordering a through enquiry against the former
vice-president Joe Biden, a possible Republican nominee for the
coveted office. If it does not comply, its financial and military aids
will be stalled. Meanwhile, in a classified briefing, US intelligence
officials reportedly told senators that Russia was engaged in a
year-long campaign for shifting the blame away from Russia onto
Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign. The
allegations and counter-allegation are like to dominate political
debates in the coming weeks. The world may witness high political
drama in 2020 with mud-slinging among the aspirants for the

high office, writes gopal misra

t is too early to forecast that Donald election campaign. However, it differed tics, but will also determine the role US
Trump’s political aggressive pos- with Ronald Reagan’s campaign slogan, may like to play in the global power play.
ture may not lead him to success “Let’s make America great again”, which During the past four years, the issue of
in the coming months. However, it had helped him to win the 1980 presi- the alleged Russian interference in the
I goes to the credit of Trump that he dential polls. Reagan’s campaign did not US polls, and now the reported efforts
could optimize the prevailing far-right trigger off suspicions, apprehensions and of seeking Ukraine’s support for the re-
xenophobia and extremism among the fear psychosis among a large number election of President Donald Trump. The
common people of USA during the pres- of non-white population. On the other allegations and counter-allegations have
idential campaign in 2016 for reaping hand, Trump supporters are claiming so much pronounced that the Donald
political harvest. He was able to trounce that due to the aggressive nationalis- may soon be facing impeachment. The
much more brilliant political leader than tic posture of the president, China and preliminaries for impeaching him are
him, Hillary Clinton, a Democrat nomi- North Korea are now forced to toe the in the final stages. Trump now joins the
nee, in the election. He could achieve this, American line, though it is far from truth. select group of the American presidents,
maybe, because the Democrats, could The world is going to witness much who were fired or faced impeachment
not muster adequate political strength to more slogan mongering in the coming for misusing the highest office of the
counter Trump’s slogan, “Make America months. The early three months will be land. Earlier, Andrew Johnson and Bill
Great Again” (MAGA), he used in the 2016 crucial not only for the American poli- Clinton were impeached in 1868 and

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