CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said as the House Democrats voted for impeaching President Trump that the president had earned it.
“President Trump was impeached for one reason: because he deserved it,” Toobin said Wednesday right after the vote on the first article of impeachment had ended.
“Because no president has ever done what he did. No president has betrayed his oath the way this president has by taking taxpayer dollars and using it as a bribe, as an extortion, as a lure to get dirt on his political opponents. And no president has ever issued a complete blanket refusal to talk, to produce any documents or any witnesses to a legitimate congressional investigation,” he added.
House Democrats passed two articles of impeachment on Wednesday. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi then has to send the articles to the Senate, which would need to hold a trial and vote two-thirds in favor to remove the president.
Toobin has been a critic of Trump and his administration. Earlier this month, he called Attorney General William Barr “a Fox News bot.”
