Former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced his support for President Trump’s removal from office.
Kasich, 67, said that the tipping point for him occurred on Thursday when acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted that there was a quid pro quo agreement between the United States and Ukraine involving military aid that had been approved for the foreign country.
“It pushed me really across the Rubicon,” Kasich stated, during a Friday afternoon appearance on CNN. “Withholding military aid, vital military aid to a nation like Ukraine, which has Russian troops inside its territory that’s threatened all the time, that withholding it so that a political operation can take place, investigate this thing around the server … To me, it’s totally inappropriate.”
He did push back on the Democrats’ handling of the inquiry, specifically criticizing them for not holding a full House vote while also saying that he wanted to see how the Democrats write up the articles of impeachment.
“But if you’re asking me if I was sitting in the House of Representatives today and you were to ask me, how do I feel, do I think impeachment should move forward and should go for a full examination and a trial of the United States Senate? My vote would be yes, and I don’t say it lightly,” Kasich concluded.
Kasich and Trump have sparred intermittently dating back to the 2016 presidential election.
