Trump Must Be Impeached (Again) Over Georgia Phone Call If American Democracy Is To Survive

Even Republicans should get behind new impeachment charges, not just for the country, but for their own political survival.

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by Ben Cohen

There is an unspoken rule in Republican circles that stipulates Donald Trump can never be held accountable for his many crimes because he is too incompetent to know he has committed them.

Lindsey Graham came the closest to spelling this out in 2019 when he claimed Trump was “incapable of forming a qui…