The May 8 New Yorker devotes 12 pages to “What would it take to cut short Trump’s Presidency?” Trump supporters said it is another example of the liberal media bias that brought Trump the Presidency.
Writer of the article is Evan Osnos, a staffer writer at the magazine since 2008 who is best known for his coverage of China. A graduate of Harvard, he has authored Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China.
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“Nobody occupies the White House without criticism,” says the article, “but Trump is besieged by doubts of a different order, centering on the overt, specific, and, at times, bipartisan discussion of whether he will be engulfed by any one of myriad problems before he has completed even one term in office—and, if he is, how might he be removed.
Cited is the Trump approval rating of 40% which Osnos says is “the lowest of any newly elected President since Gallup started measuring it.”
Control of House Needed for Impeachment
Democratic control of the House of Representatives would be needed as a first step toward impeachment since GOP leadership in the House “will almost certainly not initiate the ouster of a Republican President,” says Osnos.
Republicans are confident of maintaining their control “in part because their re-districting in 2010 tilted the Congressional map in their favor,” he says. The GOP has a 23-seat majority in the House.
Conceding that impeachment is an unlikely possibility, Osnos says “Trump’s most urgent risk is not getting ousted; it is getting hobbled by unpopularity and distrust. He is only the fifth U.S. President who failed to win the popular vote/.
“Except George W. Bush, none of the others managed to win a second term.”
The possibility is that Trump “will simply limp through a single term, incapacitated by opposition,” concludes Osnos.
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