Who was prepared to start impeachment proceedings right after the election?
by digby
As you listen to the Republicans clutch their pearls and rend their garments over the fact that some Democrats wanted to impeach Trump since the early days of his presidency over the Russian collusion, think about this:
November 3, 2016 NYT editorial, five days before the election:
Rudy Giuliani, one of Mr. Trump’s most zealous acolytes, echoed this cry to carry the battle forward into a Clinton administration. “I guarantee you in one year she’ll be impeached and indicted,” Mr. Giuliani promised Iowa voters this week. “It’s just going to happen. We’re going to sort of vote for a Watergate.”
Trump, of course, was making the same argument. After Comey made his inane decision to re-open the emails case, Trump started saying every day on the trail that voting for Clinton would mean that we would have a constitutional crisis because she would be under investigation.
And they were right. She would have been. Indeed, they wanted to continue it even after she lost. And Trump still wants to “lock her up!”
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