Gohmert Pushes Impeachment: Obama ‘Getting Close to a High Crime and Misdemeanor’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Tuesday amped his recent impeachment rhetoric by claiming that President Barack Obama was “getting close to a high crime and misdemeanor.”
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Gohmert also repeated his recent warning that if Republicans force the U.S. to default on its debt by refusing to raise the debt ceiling then it “would be an impeachable offense by the president.”
“And one other thing,” he said. “This debt default, if the president instructs the treasury secretary that — though the money is there to pay interest — if he instructs him to default, I think we’re getting close to a high crime and misdemeanor that would harm this country.”
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