The Current Impeachment Proceedings do More Good Than

Harm
Opposition

Will do harm

Introduction: Trump praised Republicans for voting against the House resolution
on impeachment on Thursday. He highlighted the fact that two Democrats broke
ranks to join all Republicans in voting no. "I think the Republicans have been
amazing," Trump said. "We had 195 or 196 to nothing. We have tremendous
support from the Senate we have tremendous support from the House. We even had
Democrats go over to the Republican side yesterday in the House because they
said, 'this is not impeachable.' And that is the dagger. It is impossible to impeach
Trump with that many people in the House and Senate who are with Trump.

Roadmap: As a first speaker I will begin by stating the definition of this topic and
then I will state the plan we have for this debate. After that, I will bring up the
three points that our team has for today. Our second speaker will be refuting
whatever our opponents will be saying and then be strengthening our points that I
will be saying. Our third speaker will be continuing the refuting. He then will be
stating the impact and weighing the debate. Our three points for the debate today
are 1, it will give a bad name for the US. 2, Vice President Mike Pence maybe even
worse than Donald Trump. 3, it is impossible to impeach Donald Trump.

Definition: Our definition of this topic is that the current impeachment

proceedings are for the current president Donald Trump.

Plan: We should not impeach Donald Trump. We should just wait for the polls to
register and then the problem would be solved. If that many people want Trump
impeached, then they probably wouldn’t vote for him for president. This is how
logic works.
Contention 1: The flow of the government will be broken if we impeach Trump.
We will be disturbing the whole admin which anyway is going to be changed after
elections in 2020. This will make it hard for policymaking and taking stands on
critical issues. Basically, continuity breaks and there will be an extended period of
turbulence, uncertainty in the administration which makes it hard for allies who
often rely on the US stand on global issues. This will lead to lots of issues, this is
because when a new president is elected, they have a lot of change in the office.
The secretary and such positions will get changed to the current president’s
preferences. This will lead to the US not having a stable. Policy decisions and
current deals with other countries will not be happening anymore. Think of it this
way. Let us say that the current president is talking with other countries about
giving so much money for so much land. The other country won’t sign with him
because they know the ongoing tensions with impeachment. Also, what if after the
impeachment, the next person says that they don’t want to do the deal with the
country, this will lead to the US losing some of its contracts and agreements with
some countries. This will harm the US because then the US will not have the same
relations with the countries anymore. In some cases, if the US has to sign a peace
treaty and the vice president says no, then it may lead to a war in a worst-case
scenario. But in a normal case, it will lead to jobs being lost, the economy going
down, and hot water between countries. We do not want this. This is how logic and
common sense works. Hence, this point cannot be refuted.

Contention 2: Mike Pence will be an even worse president this is because he will
be able to be controlled by anyone with money and good relation with him. This is
because of two people; and in the future, even more people. But for now, it is about
two people Charles, and David Koch (Coke). They run Koch Industries, the
second-largest private company in the United States. He and his brother Charles
are libertarians who object to most government spending, including investments in
infrastructure. “There are areas where they differ from the Administration, but now
there are many areas they’re partnering with us on.” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse,
a Democrat from Rhode Island, who has accused the Kochs of buying undue
influence, particularly on environmental policy. Koch Industries has a long history
of pollution and is enthusiastic about its alliance with Pence. “If Pence were to
become President for any reason, the government would be run by the Koch
brothers—period. He’s been their tool for years,” he said. He says, “I’m concerned
he’d be a President that the Kochs would own. The problem with this is that the
Koch brothers are into gas and oil. They do not care about the environment.
Making Pence the president will make the Koch brothers control Pence. This will
lead to all the pollution restrictions to be removed. This will lead to more pollution
in the US. It is not only this. If other rich people find out, they can use Pence for
any of their needs, and not for the country’s and its people. Overall, making Pence
the president will be like Wikipedia. If this leaks to the public on how Mike Pence
got manipulated, then anyone can manipulate him and get what they want, at the
cost of our citizens and their wellbeing.

Contention 3: It is impossible to impeach Trump. It takes a two-thirds vote of the

chamber (67 out of 100 senators) to convict an impeached president. That’s a far
higher threshold than an ordinary vote and even the typical supermajority
requirement in the Senate. And it has never happened in US history. There are
currently 53 Republican senators, so removing Trump would require 20 of them to
defect. That isn’t going to happen unless there’s some larger transformation of
American public opinion. Right now, impeachment polls moderately well, and
Trump is moderately unpopular. But to inspire mass defections from Senate
Republicans, the landscape would need to be overwhelmingly in favor of
impeachment, and that would likely require some game-changing additional facts
to come to light. Senate Republicans, don’t view the president’s actions as
impeachable and said the duration of a Senate trial hinges on Democrats and “how
long … the presidential candidates want to be here on the floor of the Senate
instead of Iowa and New Hampshire and all the related issues that may be going on
at the same time. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says, “It’s very
difficult to ascertain how long this will take,” “I’d be surprised if it didn’t end the
way the two previous ones did, with the president not being removed from office.”
Democrats hold a majority in the House but the GOP has a 53-47 majority in the
Senate after gaining two seats in 2018.