Cory Booker: 'I'm not going to rush to impeachment' [View all]
Source: Washington Examiner
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Sunday said he and members of the Democratic Party should hold back from talking about impeaching President Trump.
"I just wanted to tell you right now, I'm not going to rush to impeachment. I think we need to deal with this in a very sober way. This can't be a relitigation of an election that's now passed. This has to be an objective assessment about the facts that are going on right now," Booker told CNN "State of the Union" guest host Dana Bash.
Booker, speaking from Poland, praised Hillary Clinton's commencement speech at Wellesley College Friday. He called her remarks "inspiring" overall and criticized those who have focused on her linking in the speech Trump to former President Richard Nixon, who resigned from office before being impeached.
"First of all, cut Secretary Clinton some slack. People might want to rush to criticize her. Listen to the whole speech. It was a very beautiful speech," Booker said.
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It is interesting that folks on the left, including Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, are being cautious on impeachment despite the direct evidence of obstruction of justice on the part of Trump when folks on the right, like Ted Cruz, were to raise impeachment at every opportunity. For example, here is Bernie making the same point a few weeks ago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-not-ready-to-impeach-trump-yet_us_591be801e4b0ed14cdda9050
Perhaps the folks on the right were just playing to their base relying on the latest fiction from Breitbart or WND while the potential charges against Trump are far more serious and far more real, thus folks on the left actually need to convince folks outside of the left that Trump has actively violated the law, and build a rock solid case against him.
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