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Sun Jun 21, 2020, 03:55 PM Jun 2020

Trump's firing on SDNY's Berman has set the stage for a second impeachment: presidential historian

Appearing on CNN early Sunday morning, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said the firing of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman puts Donald Trump in line for a second impeachment inquiry —

Speaking with host John King, and with New York Times’ Maggie Haberman saying silence from Republicans over the abrupt and controversial firing of the SDNY prosecutor spoke volumes about they viewed it, Brinkley said the president may have set himself up — once again — for impeachment hearings.

“A president would only do what Nixon did, and what Donald Trump’s doing now, is if they were deeply fearful about what was going to come out of that New York district attorney — what knowledge they had and he bungled it,” he continued. “I think he [Trump] was full of hubris over Tulsa, he really believed he was going to have two giant rallies packed with people, a love fest, instead it was a tepid rally, didn’t accomplish very much for him and now he’s stuck with this headline which is going to fester between now and November. And if he got re-elected, may lead to a second impeachment if the Democrats continue to hold Congress.”


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trumps-firing-on-sdnys-berman-has-set-the-stage-for-a-second-impeachment-presidential-historian/

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Trump's firing on SDNY's Berman has set the stage for a second impeachment: presidential historian (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2020 OP
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