Donald Trump and Andrew Johnson impeachments

     With the current relevant news of the impeachment trial against Donald Trump in the media this wouldn’t be the first time the United States has impeached a president. That president is Andrew Johnson(Dem. 17^th) in 1868. Andrew Johnson was from the south as Lincoln was from the north. He use to be the Vice President but became president because of President Lincoln’s assassination barley into his second term as president. Donald Trump (Rep. 45th)  became president because he was originally elected president by the people of the U.S. in 2016 as Hillary Clinton (Dem.) lost the election. As both presidents were impeached at different time periods of the U.S. let’s see how similar or different the impeachments were. Andrew Johnson was impeached because of political conflict and the outbreak of ideologies in the aftermath of the civil war and violating the Tenure of Office Act (A U.S. federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office holders without approval of the Senate. Donald Trump is being impeached for abusing the power of his presidency by withholding military aid to pressure Volodymyr Zelensky (newly elected President of Ukraine) to investigate the conspiracy theory that Ukraine was interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

     Both presidents were impeached because of some type of abuse of their powers as president. And both presidents removed office holders (A.J. did this while violating TOA Act) Andrew Johnson wasn’t removed from office after his impeachment. He still wanted slavery in the South and he vetoed a bill to help free slaves after the Civil War was over with the North winning leaving the South in ruins. Andrew Johnson should’ve been deleted from office after his actions after the war. (D.T. Did this without violating the Act). Donald Trump will most likely lose the election if his primary voters in the 2016 election change their views on him after his impeachment trial. Because people do not want a president that abuses their power over another country strictly for his own gain/pride. I don’t think he will be removed from the White House, but his chances of being elected again is severely damaged because of this fact. The amount of people that voted for him in 2016 will not vote form him in 2020.