Washington: With more skeletons tumbling out of the closet, US President Donald Trump has asked his supporters to go and vote in the impending mid-term elections, warning them if he is impeached, “it’s your fault, ‘cause you didn't go out to vote.”
“You didn’t go out to vote that’s the only way it could happen,” Trump said during a rally in Montana. “I’ll be the only President in history they’ll say: ‘What a job he’s done! By the way, we’re impeaching him.”
Voters will choose 35 senators, 36 state governors and all 435 members of the House of Representatives in the election scheduled for November 6.
Mr Trump’s remarks came days after a new book by Bob Woodward, who investigated Watergate scandal, and a write up in The New York Times by anonymous senior official painted a grim picture of his administration. They suggested that there is a creeping distrust between the President and his staff.
Mr Trump castigated Democrat leaders who have made impeaching him a central part of their political identity. “They like to use the ‘impeach’ word,” Trump said. “But he didn’t do anything wrong…It doesn’t matter. We will impeach him. We will impeach.”
Mr Trump looked alarmed even as senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday that the Justice Department has taken the position that the appropriate remedy for presidential misbehaviour is impeachment.
