ELECTION 2016
'CHOP THE HEAD OFF': PUSH BEGINS TO IMPEACH TRUMP
'This would be a rear-guard effort led by Republicans'
Douglas Ernst
Washington, D.C., insiders are so obsessed with presidential hopeful Donald Trump that they will map out “impeachment” scenarios before he has clinched the 2016 Republican nomination.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh predicted in March that Republicans and Democrats would raise the specter of impeachment on “Day Two” of a Trump administration. Amazingly, the conservative icon’s estimate was too generous.
“I’m telling you that if Trump gets elected, you’re gonna see more unity between the Republicans and Democrats in stopping any Trump authoritarianism than you have ever seen in your life,” Limbaugh said March 8, WND reported. “Because they’re gonna hate it, they’re gonna despise the guy, and they’re gonna align together to stop him if he tries executive orders.”
Politico’s reporting on Monday demonstrated that experts are eager to chat about possible impeachment proceedings against the Republican front-runner. The website asked “more than a dozen members of Congress, former Capitol Hill administration and presidential campaign aides and legal experts” to ruminate on ways to end Trump’s time in the White House.
Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former McCain 2008 presidential campaign economic adviser and Congressional Budget Office chief, told the website that Trump’s policies on a range of issues would prompt Republican lawmakers to pounce.
“The kinds of violations that are being suggested are so dramatic and so large that it’s going to be not just putting your finger to the wind and see what the polls look like,” Holtz-Eakin told Politico. “This is the character of government that everyone took an oath of office to uphold. A situation like that would dominate [GOP leadership’s] thinking. I don’t think they’d hesitate. They’d hate it, but you do what you have to do.”
Washington attorney Bruce Fein said there is “50/50” chance that Trump would be impeached, and Yale Law School lecturer Eugene Fidell said the candidate’s promises “would constitute high crimes and misdemeanors” if honored.
“What he’s stated in my judgment would be clearly impeachable offenses,” said Fein, a former Justice Department official who worked on the Bill Clinton impeachment effort.
Fein warned that Republicans would have to carefully plan their assault because “the last thing you want to do is strike at the king and not chop the head off.”
Former Harry Reid strategist Jim Manley concurred with Holtz-Eakin on the GOP leadership’s willingness to attack a Republican president.
“This would be a rear-guard effort led by Republicans, with the acquiescence of Democrats, to purge a system once and for all of the toxins that have been building for years,” Manley said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (Photo: U.S. House Ways and Means Committee)
Politico’s story did not go unnoticed by Limbaugh, who used the moment to highlight his prescience with humor.
“Well, lo and behold, yet another El Rushbo prediction comes true. I just blew it by about six months. They’re not waiting for the first Trump executive or order. They’re not waiting for Trump to even be inaugurated. They’re already talking about impeachment before Trump’s even got the nomination,” Limbaugh said. “What does that tell you? They are scared to death. I guess they think he’s gonna win. They’re at their wits’ end.”
Rush Limbaugh predicted in March that Washington, D.C., insiders would seriously raise the specter of impeachment against Donald Trump (Photo: RushLimbaugh.com screenshot)
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