CNN Host Pushes Dem Rep To Say His Party Will Impeach Trump Over Iran War

CNN host John Berman pressed Democratic New York Rep. Gregory Meeks Thursday on whether his party plans to impeach President Donald Trump over his warning to destroy a civilization in Iran.

The House 🌐Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats said in a post on X that Trump is “unfit for office” for his threat to wipe out “a whole civilization” if his deadline for Iran to agree to U.S. terms was not met. Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the committee, initially appeared hesitant to answer as Berman pressed the impeachment question on “CNN News Central” Thursday, but did note that Republicans would never be on board with such a plan.

“Now, there are Democrats who have called for either impeachment or trying to invoke the 25th Amendment,” Berman said after showing the X post shared by Meeks. “How do you feel about those efforts? Do you support those efforts?”

“Well, here’s what I feel. I feel that Donald Trump is trying to bankrupt America right now,” Meeks replied. “When you talk about the cost of his war of choice, that’s already cost the American people over twenty-five, thirty billion dollars, costing us a billion dollars a day. If you look at what he’s done with reference to tariffs and other things, and the cost of living and how he’s asking now for another 200 billion, might be reducing that. So, you know, I think he’s taking America down the path that he’s taken several of his business previously. I know them in New York, he bankrupted them. So is he an incompetent as president? Yes. He’s an incompetent president.”

“So, yes or no, is it worth the effort to either impeach him or evoke the 25th Amendment?” Berman pressed again.

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