[Huffpo] Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) warned The Champ is "getting perilously close" to the standard for impeachment.
| That's nice. Nothing will happen so long as the Democrats control the Senate. And nothing will happen afterward, so long as some of the Senatorial Republicans are Rhinos. So really, this kind of talk is nothing more than playing to the Base, making implicit promises that can't be kept. Something like our beloved president talking about red lines, in fact. |
According to Tulsa World, Coburn referred to the president as "a personal friend of mine" before criticizing Champ's "lawless" administration while speaking during a Wednesday town hall meeting at Oklahoma's Muskogee Convention Center.
BuzzFeed reports Coburn said impeachment is "not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means," noting that he feels there is a great deal of "incompetence" in the Champ regime.
"I think there's some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there's a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions," Coburn said.
"Those are serious things, but we're in a serious time," Coburn continued. "I don't have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they're getting perilously close."
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