Would the duly elected Congress be using their duly granted powers to remove the duly elected PotUS?
Yes, for high crimes and misdemeanors while in office via impeachment.
Since, the polls say the majority of Americans will not be happy about impeachment in The House of Congress.
Some of the Duly Elected Congress needed a purely political alternative place to spread some dirt around outside of The House.
That place I'll call the Public Square.
So we are experiencing a Public Square Impeachment by multiple members of Duly elected but not by ALL Duly Elected Members of Congress so they can spread their Democrat/Socialist on the verge of Communism "by any means necessary" dirty politics in The Public Square.
Using the guise of Congressional oversight of some but not ALL Duly Elected Members of Congress.
Public Square Impeachment totally eliminates the Senate voice by taking the "Impeachment" process out of The House of Congress and the follow up process of the Senate's participation in the impeachment process via The not quite an "Impeachment" of the Duly Elected POTUS in the Public Square.
The Granted Powers are Impeachment for crimes while in The POTUS is in Office.
Not by using 6 years of taxes of a business man when he was merely a private citizen.
A citizen, who the IRS has been doing their job of checking his taxes for years for any violations of tax law.
The IRS is capable of taking any action needed for any violations.
Does the some of The Duly Elected Congress think the IRS was incapable of finding any tax related violations when they audited Trumps tax forms for years?
Some of the Duly Elected Congress doesn't want to check Trump's tax returns to find any mistakes made by the IRS.
They want political fodder....
Like did Trump lie when he bragged about his Great Wealth Numbers. An accusation that was made in The Public Square.
Check out his charitable contributions. Compare the charitable $ amount compared to the $ amount he kept for himself.
It will be a fishing expedition looking for anything they can use to further personally harm him in the public arena to turn voters against him in 2020 and it has nothing to do with legitimate oversight.
It is simply political tactic to help their Candidate in 2020 and hurt Trump in 2020 election.
BTW when you asked me the question about the Trump "base"... what I said about the base was merely my thoughts about how the base really did not care about the tax return release controversy like his opposition does and had nothing to do with the question about any actual harm that may or may not be found in his tax returns.
Note: my post contains my opinion mixed with some facts.
Impeach | Definition of Impeach by Merriam-Webster
Legal Definition of impeach
1 : to charge with a crime or misconduct specifically : to charge (a public official) before a competent tribunal (as the U.S. Senate) with misconduct in office
Note: Impeachment is the first step in removing an officer from office. The president, vice president, and other federal officers (as judges) may be impeached by the House of Representatives. (Members of Congress themselves are not removed by being impeached and tried, but rather are expelled by a two-thirds majority vote in the member's house.) The House draws up articles of impeachment that itemize the charges and their factual bases. The articles of impeachment, once approved by a simple majority of the House members, are then submitted to the Senate, thereby impeaching the officer. The Senate then holds a trial, at the conclusion of which each member votes for or against conviction on each article of impeachment. Two-thirds of the Senate members present must vote in favor of conviction. Once convicted, the officer can be removed from office. Although the Constitution specifies that an officer is to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, impeachment can also occur for misconduct that is not necessarily criminal (as violation of the Constitution). Because impeachment is the first step taken to remove an officer from office, impeach is often used in general contexts to refer to the removal itself, but that is not its specific legal meaning. An officer generally cannot be impeached for acts done prior to taking office.
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