Tucker's Reviews > The Case for Impeachment

Lichtman recalls having forecasted the Trump win two months before the election, using "the same proven method that had led me to forecast accurately the outcomes of eight previous elections." With this introduction, I thought perhaps now he might forecast that Trump will be impeached and that it will happen for a specified reason at a specified time. He does not commit to that detail. Instead, he lists dozens of possible grounds for impeachment, from "the gross abuse of presidential power" to the "extreme, nearly automatic propensity to lie" to Trump's having "broken many laws for personal gain" to his "predatory behavior towards women," and he adds that, like Nixon, Trump has "a need for total control, combined with minimal self-awareness" — and then Lichtman exhorts others to make the impeachment happen. He says that "the American people must demand his impeachment. In addition to mass protests, they should engage their representatives through petitions, e-mails, letters to newspaper editors, tweets, town hall gatherings, and face-to-face meetings, directed to the goal of impeachment."

He says: "I am not calling here for a witch hunt against an unconventional presidency or for snaring Trump on some minor or technical violation. The point is to assess at what point impeachment becomes necessary to protect America's constitutional liberties and the vital interests of the nation."