By Aaron Miller-
Distinguished American University Distinguished Professor of History Allan Lichtman will be feeling delighted that he predicted the impeachment of Donald Trump. In a fiction book published on April 18, 2017, by Dey Street Books, Lichtman predicted to The Washington Post that after ascending to the presidency, Trump would later be impeached from office. Litchman is credited with accurately predicting every U.S election since 1984, using an unorthodox formula.
President Trump was impeached on Wednesday by all but two Republicans, all of whom stated that he had abused his power and placed himself about the law,in the process undermining the establishment of the founders of the American Constitution. All of the Republicans voted in defence of Trump along partisan lines.
Litchman presented multiple arguments for Trump’s predicted impeachment, one of which was close to right. That Trump would be impeached for complicity of conspiracy with Foreign governments. The professor advanced in the book that Trump could face impeachment for reasons which was listed complicity of conspiracy with foreign governments, crimes against humanity for the U.S. neglecting global warming, and violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the constitution barring the president from taking personal monetary offerings from other governments.
He makes reference to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and links between Trump associates and Russian officials, claiming that such ties could be used in efforts to impeach President Trump.
Trump was impeached on Wednesday for abusing his power when he conditioned military aid to Ukrain on the Ukranian government investigating his 2020 political rival Joe Biden for offences observers and investigators say do not exist.The Washington Post called it “striking to see the full argument unfold.
The author at one point suggests that impeachment could be brought for actions by the president intended to benefit himself financially based on inside information about economic dealings. The professor could probably be forgiven if he argued that Trump’s eventual impeachment was connected with him attempting benefit himself politically by using inside contacts in Ukrain to discredit Joe Biden. Lichtman observes the president has not gained any knowledge from a study of earlier key events in U.S. politics: “A president who seems to have learned nothing from history is abusing and violating the public trust and setting the stage for a myriad of impeachable offences;;, heid