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Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: Pending

Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.

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In the tradition of the Clintonometer and the Trump Apocalypse Watch, the Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or by resigning under threat of same.

Donald Trump made it clear this week that he wants the Senate to pass some version of Obamacare repeal as soon as possible. That might happen tonight or early tomorrow morning, or it might not—and the version that gets passed might get immediately ratified by the House, or it might not. If the House does immediately pass the Senate’s bill, that’s a “victory” in that Trump gets to say he passed something—but possibly a long-term loss in that it will cause big premium increases and coverage losses. Unless they change it again tonight—which they might!

Point is, there are a lot of possibilities here without even getting into the crude/weird ongoing war between all of Trump’s White House lieutenants, and it’s late, so I am just going to to make today’s Impeach-O-Meter level a giant question mark. See you tomorrow!

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