Conservative commentator Erick Erickson provided a clue about the identity of the mystery U.S. congressman that torched President Trump in a recent interview.
Erickson published an interview Wednesday that quoted an anonymous Republican representative who suggested that if Republicans were going to lose control of the House and the Senate in upcoming elections because of Trump, Trump should be impeached.
“No, look, I promised him I would keep him secret,” Erickson told CNN host Erin Burnett Wednesday after she pressed him for details on the representative. “We talked. Had a good conversation, and he knew I was going to quote him. But I would prefer to protect him, particularly just given, I think, his voters and others, particularly the congressional leadership would be upset with him for venting. He is not on the Judiciary Committee. I will tell you that.”
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That narrows down, if only slightly, who could be the congressman with whom Erickson spoke. There are a total of 22 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.
In Erickson’s original post, the representative slammed Trump and said that Vice President Mike Pence should become president instead.
“If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherfucker,” the mystery representative told Erickson in one quote.
Impeachment resolutions usually head to the Judiciary Committee, where they are then investigated. If necessary, the committee also is responsible for drafting articles of impeachment before sharing their findings with the full House.
