Democrat says Trump is 'stealing' from taxpayers and could be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress [View all]
Source: The Independent
Sunday 11 January 2026 14:20 EST
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said on Sunday that Donald Trump had so far in his second term committed “10 times” the number of impeachable offenses as he’d committed in his first term and appeared to disagree with senior members of his party who’ve waved off impeachment efforts. The Connecticut lawmaker has become an increasingly prominent voice among his party’s younger members, who favor a more forceful pushback against the president as his party looks toward 2026.
Murphy spoke Sunday with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, where Welker asked him a question about former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s declaration late in 2025 that Trump’s conduct did not rise to the standard of impeachable so far under his second term. Murphy firmly disagreed.
“I know that this president has committed ten times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first term. He is stealing from the American people,” he said, calling his judgment a result of having “common sense”.
“The amount of corruption that he is involved in, taking a luxury private jet from Qatar, trading national security secrets to a foreign nation in exchange for a $2 billion investment in his cryptocurrency. That is wildly corrupt,” he said. “I don't think it's any secret that the president's level of corruption and illegality is nuclear grade in his second term compared to his first term.”
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