Brief Trump Overview Flashcards
1
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Record in office (see actual lesson for more detailed notes)
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- Economy
- created more jobs for the middle class
- attempted ↓ national debt (money US owes to other countries & companies)
- Immigration
- build wall U.S.-Mexico border (border security) prevent immigrants from illegally entering the country
- Environment
- rolled back previous policies directed at reducing pollution and climate change
- claimed too costly for the U.S. govt
- proposed plans to allow drilling and mining where they were previously off-limits in national parks
- reduced the amount of land set aside for wildlife listed under the Endangered Species Act
- Judiciary
- appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States’
- 2017 Neil Gorsuch
- 2018 Brett Kavanaugh
- 2020 Amy Coney Barrett
- appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States’
2
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First impeachment
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- Ukraine
- 2019 evidence - Trump supposedly withheld aid to Ukraine
- attempt to get them to provide damaging information on one of his political rivals
- Impeachment
- 18 December 2019 House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump
- officially charge him with misconduct in office
- 2 charges (called articles of impeachment)
- abuse of power
- obstruction of Congress, or blocking Congress from doing their job properly.
- Trial
- Senate held a trial to decide if Trump should be removed from office
- after nearly three weeks, Senate voted to let the president remain in office
- only two other U.S. presidents have ever been impeached:
- Andrew Johnson in 1868
- Bill Clinton in 1998
- neither were removed from office
3
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Second impeachment
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- U.S. government moved to impeach Trump for the second time during his presidency
- charged him with incitement of 6 January insurrection
- impeached by the House of Reps Jan 13, 2021
- 10 Republicans joining Democrats to charge him (only U.S. president ever to be impeached twice)
