Liberal Media Scream: New York Times’ columnist demands impeachment ‘to preserve America’

Responding to Eliana Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon, who argued against impeaching Trump, Friedman began his counterpoint:

“President Trump not only should be impeached, he must be impeached, if we’re to preserve America as we’ve known it. Of course, ideally, presidents should be removed by the will of voters through elections. But, Eliana, when I hear Trump defenders say impeachment would subvert that process, I say: ‘Really? What the hell do you think Trump was doing?’ He was subverting the will of the people by using our tax dollars to force Ukraine to investigate his most feared opponent, Joe Biden, in the next election, rather than trusting voters to do that.

“If we say, as Republicans are, that what Trump did is not impeachable, we are telling ourselves and every future president, ‘Hey, it’s okay to enlist a foreign power to tilt the election your way.’ Can you imagine how much cash future candidates could raise from Saudi Arabia or how many cyber warriors they could enlist from Russia to tilt future elections? The sanctity of our elections would be shot, and we’d never again have a president, who, whether or not you liked him or her, was at least seen as legitimately elected.”

Brent Baker, Media Research Center vice president of research, explains our weekly pick: “Friedman is certainly in high dudgeon with his claim that ‘to preserve America as we’ve known it,’ President Trump must be impeached, as if not impeaching Trump will ruin the country. He’d have more credibility to pass such moral judgment if he’d not shown over the top disdain for Trump since Trump was elected. ‘This is a moral 9/11. Only 9/11 was done to us from the outside, and we did this to ourselves,’ Friedman told Bill Maher three days after the 2016 vote.

Rating: Four out of five screams.