The Key Word: ‘Impeached’

How my local paper reported the news.

The Poynter Institute had as an interesting page that shows a few front pages from the impeachment of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, two of the only three U.S. presidents to be impeached.

I know Donald J. Trump, despite being manifestly unfit for office and clearly guilty of all kind of impeachable shenanigans, is pretty much assured of acquittal by the Senate. Still, he is forever an impeached president.

It was kind of interesting reading Facebook comments on The Gazette’s image of their front page from Thursday, covering the news. Several comments were along the lines of “he hasn’t been impeached” and “fake news.”

Because he will win in the Senate. But, legal eagles, impeached means “charged,” and the Senate merely renders a verdict on whether to remove the President. Because the House has voted, he has been impeached.

And that word “impeached” screamed from many front pages.

Anyway, downloaded from the Newseum web site, here are 25 front pages to mark the big event for this week in history: