Legendary Democratic Californian Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who’s boycotting Trump’s inauguration on Friday, raised eyebrows on Monday when she devised an unusual rationale for impeaching the President-elect: calling Hillary Clinton “Crooked Hillary” and questioning her health.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Mathews last night, Waters was asked why some Democrats view Trump’s victory in the election as “illegitimate”.
“If there’s some sort of — as you call it — collusion, then what? Does that make Trump subject to impeachment? Just generally, tell me what you mean by the term?” Matthews asked.
The Congresswoman then responded that: “If we discover that Donald Trump or his advocates played a role to help provide strategy — if they’re the ones who came up with ‘Crooked Hillary,’ if they’re the ones who came up with, ‘she’s ill, something’s wrong with her energy,’ and the way that he basically described her during the campaign — I think that is something that would put the question squarely on the table whether or not he should be impeached.”
Mathews didn’t press the California Democrat on her logic, but asked whether “you can commit an impeachable offense before you take office?”
“Well, I think that at the point that investigations discover and confirm and can document any of that role in helping to strategize — they had a role in attempting to determine the outcome,” she answered.
“That in many ways they used the information they got when they hacked into emails etc. — if that was used against Hillary Clinton in some way, yes I think that’s impeachable.”
No doubt Congresswoman Waters will be delighted to learn that Trump indeed came up with “Crooked Hillary” nickname for Clinton. He unveiled the name at a rally in New York back in April last year, where he focused on Clinton’s ties to special interests.
On April 17th, Donald Trump used the nickname for the first time on his Twitter account, saying “Crooked Hillary Clinton is spending a fortune on ads against me. I am the one person she doesn’t want to run against. Will be such fun!”
