US President Donald Trump wanted
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives, engineer the impeachment
former President George Bush.
On Thursday, Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s
lead political anchor, uploaded a video where Trump spoke on his wish for
George to be impeached.
“Check out this exchange I had
with then private citizen@realDonaldTrump on Oct. 15, 2008. We spoke about
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and he then offered his thoughts about impeachment,”
he tweeted.
Check out this exchange I had with then private citizen @realDonaldTrump on Oct. 15, 2008. We spoke about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and he then offered his thoughts about impeachment. pic.twitter.com/mXlsG9SjbB— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) December 18, 2019
However, he said the speaker
should have ensured the impeachment of Bush for leading the US to war.
In response to the September 11
attack, Bush launched a “war on terror” that initially included the war in
Afghanistan in 2001 and the Iraq war in 2003.
Trump said the 43rd president
should have suffered the fate of Bill Clinton, who was impeached on grounds of
perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice — a similar offence for
which the incumbent president has been impeached.
“When she first got in and was
named speaker, I met her and I think she is a very impressive person. I like
her a lot. But I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and
going after Bush. It just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach
Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a
wonderful thing. Absolutely for the war. He lied,” he said.
“He got us into the war with
lies. And look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was
totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him which was nonsense. And yet
Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had
weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not
to be true.”
On Wednesday, Trump was impeached
by the lower congress under the leadership of Pelosi. He was accused of
obstructing congress and abuse of power.
Like Clinton, Trump will face the
senate trial that is expected to take place after the winter break, in January.
The impeachment of the Republican
president has been considered unlikely as a result of the dominance of his
party members in the senate.
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