A top Democrat set to take over a very important chairmanship when the House of Representatives flips Democrat in January says that impeaching President Donald Trump is back on the table, after federal prosecutors in New York outlined a possible case against Trump for campaign finance violations.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NJ) will head up the House Judiciary Committee in January but, until now, has been reticent to commit to the idea of impeachment, often saying that the act of holding a trial for the president in a House of Congress would carry too much political liability. After all, the Senate is unlikely to remove the president from office, and any impeachment proceedings would likely come amid a contentious 2020 pesidential campaign season.
But in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday, Nadler called Trump’s alleged campaign finance violations “impeachable offenses,” according to the New York Post.
“Well, they would be impeachable offenses, whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question,” Nadler said. “But certainly they’d be impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office, that would be an impeachable offense.” – READ MORE