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Originally Posted by MONEY
The purpose of impeaching Trump is the ultimate cancel.
Should the impeachment be successful Trump would lose all federal benefits including secret service protection, making him and his family sitting ducks.
An impeached Trump is a dead Trump.
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This is not true.
And definitely not true if he is impeached and convicted AFTER Jan 20. It has to be before Jan 20.
Even if he were convicted by next week (which I think would be fairly impossible), he still doesn't lose SS protection.
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The provisions in the Former Presidents Act do not revoke an impeached president's right to Secret Service protection or Arlington National Cemetery burial.
A separate 1962 law grants presidents Secret Service protection "for a reasonable period after he leaves office." A 2012 amendment to the law extended that protection to former presidents and their spouses for a lifetime and their children while they are younger than 16.
"Secret Service protection is provided by another statute (than the FPA), and would not be affected by impeachment and removal without further action by Congress," Campos confirmed to USA TODAY.
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Also, a conviction in the Senate does not mean he can't run again.
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If the Senate votes to convict Trump, it also can decide whether he is eligible to run for office again in a subsequent Senate vote. An impeached and convicted president is ineligible for future office if the Senate decides so in a simple majority vote, according to the U.S. Constitution.
"If Trump were convicted in the Senate, the Senate could take a separate vote to disqualify him from 'any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.' That includes the presidency," University of Missouri School of Law professor Frank O. Bowman III confirmed in an email to USA TODAY.
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The Senate would have to take a separate vote for that to happen.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...20/6615505002/
