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Impeaching Pres. Trump Would Cost Millions
PHOTO BY SUSAN WALSH/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK (9876492AC) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WALKS UP THE STEPS OF AIR FORCE ONE AT SIOUX FALLS REGIONAL AIRPORT, IN SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
As election midterms ap- proach and Robert Mueller’s investigations continue, the possibility of impeachment is still on the table.
Impeachment work on
President Bill Clinton’s
case in 1998 cost $1.2 million. With inflation, the cost of presidential impeachment today could be close to $2
million or more.
Democrats could take over
the House as a result of the upcoming midterm elections, which raises the possibility of some politicians pursuing im- peachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Allegations by for- mer Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — that candidate Trump directed him to make hush-money payments dur- ing the 2016 campaign to cover up affairs — and ongo- ing investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into people associated with the Trump campaign are adding fuel to the impeach- ment fire.
In September 2018, Trump tweeted that im- peaching him would cause the
country to collapse:
It might not cause the
country to literally collapse, but an impeachment would cost millions.
The Cost of A Presidential Impeachment
In 1999, The New York Times reported that five months of impeachment work on former President Bill Clinton’s case cost $1.2 million, according to records from the House Judiciary Committee. Adjusted for the cost of inflation, $1.2 million in 1999 would be equal to about $1.8 million in 2018 dollars, according to the Bu- reau of Labor Statistic’s con- sumer price index inflation calculator.
Here’s a breakdown of some of the individual legal costs connected to the Clin- ton case detailed by the Times:
Payments to Chief Repub- lican Investigator David Schippers: as much as $20,000 per month
Payments to Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell: as much as $18,000 per month.
Deputy Kills Wife, Then Turns Gun On Himself
A Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy and his wife died late Sunday night. Police have attributed the deaths to a murder-suicide.
According to police, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home in the 17000 block of Terrazzo Way, in Land O’Lakes. When deputies arrived, they discov- ered that Mrs. Samantha Keithley, 32, was deceased. They also located her hus- band, Deputy Kirk Keith- ley, 39, inside the home deceased as well.
The couple’s four children
were inside the home, but
were not physically injured,
police said. KIRK AND SAMANTHA KEITHLEY
Hillsborough County
Sheriff Chad Chronister
said, “Unfortunately, last night, one of our deputies was involved in a tragic event where he took his wife’s life and then his own. I cannot begin to express how dis- heartened I am. Domestic Vi- olence has no place in our
society.
“I ask that everyone join
me and the rest of our office and pray for those innocent children who are left behind and have to pick up the pieces. This is something that is impossible to comprehend for even the most seasoned
person. “
Keithley was hired by the
Sheriff’s Office on June 15, 2009, and worked in District 2 as a patrol deputy. He pre- viously had law enforcement experience at the St. Peters- burg Police Department from 2003 until 2009.
White House
Tentative Deal Reached For Christine Blasey Ford To Testify On Thursday
JUDGE BRETT M. KAVANAUGH DURING HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for the woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexu- ally assaulting her decades ago reached a tenta- tive agreement on Saturday for her to publicly testify on Thursday, an apparent breakthrough that could alter the course of a bitter confirma- tion fight.
After a brief call late on Saturday, the
woman’s lawyers and aides to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, planned to talk again Sunday morning to continue the halting negotia- tions over the conditions of the testimony, ac- cording to three people familiar with the call.
Aides to Senator Dianne Feinstein of Cal- ifornia, the committee’s top Democrat, were also involved.
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