Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall, but in a 2014 interview, he flatly told Fox & Friends that then-President Barack Obama “could certainly be impeached” for taking executive action on immigration.
During a November 24, 2014 interview, which was initially resurfaced by CNN’s KFile, the subject of impeaching Obama came up, and co-host Peter Johnson, Jr. asked Trump “Has the president done something worthy of impeachment, and should he be impeached?”
“I think he certainly did something that was unconstitutional, now it depends on Justice Roberts, if he wants to just curry favor in the beltway like he did with Obamacare, because that’s the only reason he did, it because he knows he was wrong,” Trump replied.
“But it certainly depends on what happens,” Trump continued. “I mean, I think certainly he could be impeached.”
Trump went on to say that “It is unbelievable, what he was able to do, and in the meantime people are pouring in from, you know, he did the one executive action, he did the executive order, but he also at the same time people are pouring in to the country, there’s no stopping them. Now with those people you’ll have sick people, you’ll have gang members coming in, you’ll have some really bad dudes coming in, you may even have the
President Obama was not impeached, and according to Trump’s own State Department, you did not have the ISIS start coming in.
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
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