In 1972 Nixon won in a landslide, two years later in 1974 Nixon was forced to resign. "But I say, how do you impeach somebody that's doing a great job, that hasn't done anything wrong?" Trump said.
Klamath Falls, OR— Trump tells supporters it'll be 'your fault' if he gets impeached
United States presidential election of 1972, American presidential election held on Nov. 7, 1972, in which Republican Pres. Richard M. Nixon was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat George McGovern in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history.
Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton. Seven electors voted for someone other than their party’s candidate.
232 Hillary Clinton 65,853,625 votes (48.0%) 306 Donald J. Trump 62,985,106 votes (45.9%)
Donald Trump told supporters Thursday that 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 Billings, 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,' " Trump said.
Lie much Trump? Does Nixon ring any bells? Nixon won in a landslide in 1972 to only be impeached two years later in 1974.
Following the guilty plea of his former attorney Michael Cohen, Trump said "the market would crash" and "everybody would be very poor" if Democrats were to take back control of Congress and impeach him.
In October 2010, prior to the elections in which Republicans won control of the House, Jonathan Chait published an article in The New Republic called "Scandal TBD" where he predicted that if Republicans were to win control of the House, and Barack Obama was to win re-election in 2012, the Republicans would try to impeach Obama and use any reason possible as pretext.
"But I say, how do you impeach somebody that's doing a great job, that hasn't done anything wrong?" Trump said. "Our economy is good. How do you do it? How do you do it? How do you do it?"
" 'We will impeach him!' " Trump shouted, " 'But he's doing a great job!' 'Doesn't matter.' Remember that line, 'He's doing a great job.' 'That doesn't matter. We'll impeach him.'"
Trump later warned the United States would turn into a "Third World country" because of the precedent his hypothetical impeachment would set.
"But let's say a Democrat gets elected, and let's say we have a Republican House. We will impeach that Democrat, right? And then a Republican. We won by a lot. We won by a hell of a margin," Trump said.
"If the opposite party becomes president, every time before it even starts before you've even found out whether or not he or she is going to do a great job, they'll say, 'We want to impeach him' and you'll impeach him," Trump said. "It's so ridiculous."
Trump is not the first president to believe he was the victim of a political witch hunt.
Former president Richard Nixon also used that phrase when speaking about the Senate Watergate hearings looking into the scandal that eventually led to his resignation, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reported in 1973.
"'The President,' one source said, 'sees the hearings as an attempt to get Richard Nixon and do it just damn unfairly,'" Woodward and Bernstein wrote.
But there’s something about Trump’s promotion of the “deep state” and “fake news” memes that brings back very distinct memories of an embattled Republican president who convinced conservatives to defend him because of their common hatred of the critics. At Vox Nicole Hemmer offers some striking parallels:
As Hemmer points out, Nixon’s image among “movement conservatives” —badly tarnished after his adoption of wage and price controls, his China initiative, and his Keynesian fiscal stimulus efforts — actually improved during the early stages of Watergate.
“Indeed,” the editors at National Review wrote, in July 1973 “the target is really not Nixon himself or this or that aide, but, rather, the ‘new majority’ threatening to break the liberal hold on political power. Sen. Helms echoed the charge. “Watergate,” he told [Clarence] Manion in the fall of 1974, “by a process of selective indignation, became the lever by which embittered liberal pundits have sought to reverse the 1972 conservative judgment of the people.”
But if Trump continues to do highly questionable things and defend them with highly questionable (not to mention erratic and at times incoherent) arguments, conservatives (at least at the elite level) will become increasingly aware they could get the same policy boost without all the collateral damage if Mike Pence were in charge. If they start mentioning that out loud, Trump is in big trouble.
Trump, in an exclusive "Fox & Friends" interview with Pete Hegseth, blasted the anonymous author who slammed his leadership in a New York Times op-ed, calling it “treason” and speculating a “deep state person” could be behind it.
The publication of the article, which described a secret inside the effort to protect the country from Trump’s “misguided impulses,” has touched off a furious hunt for the author. A slew of Cabinet-level officials and others have scrambled to deny responsibility and condemn the writer.
Trump, in the interview that aired Friday morning, said the Times should not have even had the piece.
“It’s treason, you could call it a lot of things,” he said, repeating a statement he made on Twitter earlier this week.
But he went on to complain that the author’s anonymity made the piece difficult to combat.
“What’s unfair, I don’t mind when they write a book and they make lies because it gets discredited,” he said, adding that it’s challenging “when somebody writes and you can’t discredit because you have no idea who they are.”
He speculated, “It may be a deep state person who’s been there a long time. It’s a very unfair thing.”
*A deluge of White House senior officials have denied writing the bombshell anonymous New York Times op-ed article, whose author the paper described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration."
*There was speculation that Vice President Mike Pence was the author because of the column's use of the word "lodestar," but he denied having written it.
*Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested the op-ed article was written by a "disgruntled deceptive bad actor" and said the author should leave the White House.
As speculation swirls over the identity of the author of the controversial New York Times op-ed article, described by the paper only as "a senior official in the Trump administration," a lineup of White House officials have denied writing it.
The author of the anonymous op-ed article, published on Wednesday, said there was a "quiet resistance" against President Donald Trump within his administration.
The column details an effort to undermine Trump's authority and slams the president on an array of issues.
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