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Donald Trump About Impeachment Summary

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James Nelson, “Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump”, a retired Justice of Montana supreme court makes a great argument as to how Donald Trump hasn’t been upholding the constitution and why he should be impeached. His article talks about how he is letting business interests interfere with his presidency. John Nichols, “Congressional Democrats are already warning Trump about Impeachment”, a novelist has a similar article on the same topic, but Nichols goes more in detail into the situation. Both Nelson and Nichols make valid points regarding Trumps behavior and what he’s done to potentially be impeached. Nichols does a great job pointing out the apparent issue, explaining to the reader that Trumps has been using his businesses around the world to influence a few of the policies he has been implementing, like the travel ban. He points out that Trump banned seven majority Muslim countries that he doesn’t have business deals in. Nelson on the other hand lists all other countries that Trump has done business in but doesn’t go into detail about how he uses his foreign influences to drive the policies he’s implementing. They both do a good job at addressing the fact that Trump is a businessman, one “with significant …show more content…

Although they both discuss the potential impeachment of Trump, their arguments are similar and but one is organized and presented a lot better than the other. “Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump” confuses the reader as to what the argument is. They jump from one topic to another as the article goes on. “Congressional Democrats are already warning Trump about Impeachment” is very well organized and supports the thesis in a number of different arguments. The arguments are all well supported in each paragraph of the Nichols article. Unlike Nelsons article, you could read the first sentence of a paragraph in Nichols article and know what the whole paragraph will be

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