Button up! Trump plays with fire

America's constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of presidents and vice-presidents only when they have been found guilty of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.

Button up! Trump plays with fire

America's constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of presidents and vice-presidents only when they have been found guilty of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.

The optimism of the Founding Fathers encouraged them to set the bar that high, their assumption being that clowns would never be elected — they didn’t see Twitter coming down the tracks.

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