‘Going to be difficult’: Lawmaker exposes seismic flaw in Trump impeachment push
A top House Democrat backed another push to impeach President Donald Trump but warned a major obstacle may come from his own party.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN's Kasie Hunt on Tuesday that Democrats "should try" to impeach Trump if they win back the House and Senate. But he acknowledged that many of the new Democrats his party hopes to elect in red districts would likely see the effort as "partisan."
"I think that's a reasonable political argument," Smith said when Hunt pressed him on concerns from some Democrats that impeaching Trump again, with little chance of removing him, would look like overreach and hurt the party's chances of winning back the presidency in 2028....