{"id":25185,"date":"2019-11-27T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25185"},"modified":"2019-11-26T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:26:23","slug":"trump-impeachment-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/trump-impeachment-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment status?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the New York Times and CNN bravely spoke truth to power in China by covering the Trump impeachment intensively (not leaving any space in their respective China editions for coverage of unrest in Hong Kong, for example), the stories that they ran assumed that the reader already knew the crimes of which the hated dictator was guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that I&#8217;m back from China&#8230;. what is the status of the Trump impeachment? (now in its fourth year as measured by the time that my Facebook friends first began discussing the process as it applied to Donald Trump)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For voters whose interests Trump represents (i.e., the people who actually did vote for him), has anything been uncovered in this process that would give them a reason to prefer a Democrat as President?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Separately, some business people in China told me that they thought Trump was pursuing the correct (for Americans) trade policy on China: &#8220;The tariffs were long overdue and China had it coming,&#8221; one said. They shared the perspective of the European multinational business executives we met on our Northwest Passage cruise, i.e., that China had been maintaining unfair trade barriers and policies for decades.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the New York Times and CNN bravely spoke truth to power in China by covering the Trump impeachment intensively (not leaving any space in their respective China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-and-trump-hatred"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump impeachment status? 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