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Commentary: The Founding Fathers designed impeachment for someone exactly like Donald Trump

What the framers may not have anticipated was someone who epitomized so many of their fears at once ... being elected to the presidency in the first place.

Anti-Trump supporters rally at the Texas State Capitol on Sunday, July 2, 2017, during an impeachment march in Austin, Texas by anti-Trump supporters in hopes to gain attention and impeach Trump. (Joshua Guerra /Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Their writings and debates surrounding the creation of the Constitution make clear that the framers feared a certain kind of character coming to power and usurping the republican ideal of their new nation.