WaPo: "Flake warns Trump of impeachment remedy if Mueller probe is halted"

[bearsfootball516]

Sen. Jeff Flake, one of President Trump’s most prominent Senate critics, told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that he would support impeachment proceedings against Trump if the president ends special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election “without cause.”

“We’re begging him: ‘Don’t go down this road. Don’t create a constitutional crisis. Don’t force the Congress to take the only remedy that Congress can take,’ ” said Flake (R-Ariz.). “To remind the president of that is the best way to keep him from going down that road. To fire Mueller without cause, I don’t know if there is any other remedy left to the legislative branch.”

Flake compared any possible effort by Trump in the coming weeks to end the Mueller probe to President Richard Nixon’s infamous 1973 firing of the special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/20/flake-warns-trump-of-impeachment-remedy-if-mueller-probe-is-halted/?utm_term=.296c0bbda2a2

[octoberlib]

1. So did Lindsay Graham. What they won't do is actually pass any legislation.

[mn9driver]

2. Flake and the rest of the Republicans will do nothing.

They’ve been playing this game a long time. Say the right thing, vote the wrong way. Every time.

[bearsfootball516]

4. Flake is one that I maybe...maybe, think might be telling the truth.

He seems like he's positioning himself for a 2020 primary run, and in his mind, being the catalyst of a Donald Trump impeachment push could win him both Republicans who are disillusioned with Trump and Democrats who would be happy he led the charge for impeachment.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. There are honourable republicans.

I will work to convince every one of them to vote for Honourable Democratic candidates and incumbents.

[ProudLib72]

5. I've seen this movie before