Meghan McCain said that House Democrats need to succeed if they attempt to impeach President Trump.
“I will say if you take this kill shot, Democrats, you better not miss. You better hit his jugular. If there is even a finger still moving at the end of it, you’re going to ruin your chances in 2020. But you better do this well if you’re going to do it,” the host of “The View” said Friday.
Host Whoopi Goldberg intervened to clarify that McCain was not calling for literal harm to the president.
“I’m a hunter and shooter, I’m sorry if that metaphor is wrong. I talk like a redneck, so sorry. But I will say you have to successfully do this if you’re going to impeach him. You have to impeach him. It can’t just be proceedings that don’t end up successful,” McCain said.
“If you’re going to swing, you have to hit the ball,” host Joy Behar said.
McCain thanked Behar for coming up with a more apt metaphor.
The impeachment conversation on the show occurred in response to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s comments on impeachment to late night host Jimmy Kimmel.
“I think the president wants us to impeach him,” the California Democrat said.
“The silver lining for him is, then he believes that he would be exonerated by the United States Senate. And there’s a school of thought that says, ‘If the Senate acquits you, why bring up charges against him in the private sector when he’s no longer president?’ So when we go through with our case, it’s got to be ironclad,” she said.
Trump responded Thursday to calls among House Democrats to impeach him, calling it a “dirty, filthy, disgusting word.”
“It’s high crimes and misdemeanor. There was no high crime and there was no misdemeanor. So how do you impeach based on that?” the president added.
