Trump Impeachment Talk Grows From Conspiracy Theory To Mainstream

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Trump Impeachment Talk Grows From Conspiracy Theory To Mainstream


May 17, 2017
8:24 AM ET
Domenico Montanaro



The elephant in the room whenever talking about President Trump and the Russia investigation is the big "I" word — impeachment.

The word had been in the not-so-far reaches of liberal conspiracy talk since Trump was elected. There's a website with more than 976,000 signatures on a petition encouraging Congress to impeach Trump. There's even an "Impeach Donald Trump" Twitter handle.

But with the revelation that James Comey, who was fired as FBI director last week, penned a memo after a Valentine's Day meeting with Trump in which Comey associates say Trump asked him to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the "I" word is creeping its way into the mainstream.

Asked on CNN by Wolf Blitzer after the news broke Tuesday evening whether Trump could face impeachment, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said, "Reluctantly, Wolf, I have to say yes simply because obstruction of justice is such a serious offense."

He later walked back that statement during a conference call with Maine reporters. "You're jumping way forward," King said of the possibility of impeachment. "What we really need to do is get the facts of this situation."

He added, "Before we start talking about obstruction of justice or impeachment, we need to get to the underlying facts."

The number of Democrats starting to use the "I" word is growing.

After Comey was fired, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, "It may well produce impeachment proceedings."

"We're actually pretty close to considering impeachment," said Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth.

"He has committed an impeachable act and must be charged," said Rep. Al Green of Texas.

"We don't have to be afraid to use the word impeachment," Rep. Maxine Waters of Connecticut said Tuesday at a conference of the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress in Washington. "We don't have to think impeachment is out of our reach."

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1. K & R..& thanks!

Every npr program this morning has been all over this!

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2. I.T.M.F.A!!!!! n/t