“The problem is that the criminal charges are related to the presidency.”
If found guilty, some Republicans are expected to support impeachment.
A Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives predicted that if former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was criminally indicted four times this year alone, is convicted, he risks being impeached by Congress even if he wins the presidential election.
U.S. Representative Ken Buck (Republican Colorado) said in a CNN interview on the 17th (local time), “If former President Trump is convicted of a serious crime, you can imagine that a legal impeachment investigation and vote will take place the day he appears before Congress.” “He said.
Rep. Buck is a former prosecutor and is considered to have conservative tendencies even within the Republican Party. He is a member of the ‘Freedom Caucus’, a group of hardliners within the party. However, he does not shy away from speaking bitterly towards the party as he decided not to run in next year’s House of Representatives election.
Representative Buck said, “I think the real problem is that he is involved in impeachment for something that has nothing to do with politics or the presidency.” He added, “(The suspicions against former President Trump) are integrally related to how he ran the White House and what he did after losing the election.” “There is,” he pointed out.
“This is something that is really concerning,” he said. “I hope that Republicans and primary voters will take this into consideration.”
When the host asked if this meant that the Republican Party would move to impeach former President Trump if he were convicted and re-entered the White House, he responded, “The Democratic Party will do that.”
Impeaching a U.S. president is possible only with the approval of two-thirds of senators, so it is not easy even if the Democratic Party holds a majority in the Senate and House of Representatives. However, Rep. Buck believes that if former President Trump is convicted and elected, some Republican lawmakers will support impeachment.
Rep. Buck said, “If former President Trump was convicted of a serious crime and was sitting as a sitting president while the appeal process is ongoing, you could see Republican lawmakers supporting impeachment.”
Former President Trump has been indicted four separate times this year on suspicion of silencing sexual relations, leaking confidential documents, plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and attempting to interfere in the election, and is facing trial one after another.
With the U.S. presidential election being held on November 5 next year, there are observations that if former President Trump is found guilty before the presidential election, it will have a significant impact on voters’ choices.
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Source: Donga
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