An impeachment of Donald Trump would spell dire consequences for an embattled US economy, the US president said when he was asked about it. This was what he relayed during an interview that happened on Thursday.
The outspoken president, who is very active on Twitter, had given himself a passing grade when asked for his views on how he had performed while in office. CNN Politics noted that Trump said his actions had merited an 'A+' so far, citing that Supreme Court appointees Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were good choices.
He further shared his ideas on impeachment, saying that if it ever got around to that, the consequences for the country would be very catastrophic. He said it would be unthinkable to impeach him, who has done a good job in many things, and that it would have to come from the Democrats, who were trying to wrest control of the Congress yet again in the hopes of impeaching Trump.
Washington Post reveals that Trump said answered these questions during an airing of "Fox & Friends." He was asked on the show by host Ainsley Earhardt, and it was on the show that he said the worst that could happen if he got impeached. He said that the stock market would crash, and that "everybody would be very poor."
An impeachable offense for the president, if ever there was one, would be his connection with Russia during the 2016 election. A probe is ongoing, and there is also speculation that the president himself has tried to disrupt the ongoing investigation. If it was found out that the Trump campaign had connections with Russia's interloping during the elections, it could also spell dire consequences for Trump.
There had been people connected to Trump that strengthened the notion that the president may possibly be impeached. Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, former personal lawyer and former campaign manager of Trump, respectively, pleaded guilty and was convicted recently.
To end the interview, Trump highlighted his appointments of the Supreme Court justices, as well as his tax cuts and his handling of the economy-the 'best' it had ever been in history, according to him. He said that his only fault was that the press didn't cover (him) fairly.
