Since the Mueller report laid bare Donald Trump’s many attempts to obstruct an investigation into his campaign‘s own shady conduct, a number of high-ranking Democrats (and multiple 2020 candidates) have called for impeachment, breaking with Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that Congress shouldn’t “go down that path.” One day after the redacted report was released, Elizabeth Warren urged lawmakers to “set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty,” while Kamala Harris said in a CNN town hall on Monday that “Congress should take the steps towards impeachment,” despite knowing Republicans will probably never go for it. Speaking to Face the Nation over the weekend, House Oversight Committee chairman Elijah Cummings commented, “There comes a point in life where we all have to make decisions based upon the fact that it is our watch . . . I think even if we did not win, possibly, if there were not impeachment, I think history would smile upon us for standing up for the Constitution . . . If we do nothing here, what is going to happen is that the president is going to be emboldened. He is going to be emboldened because he’s said, ‘Well, I got away with that.’”

One person who thinks this impeachment talk is total bullshit is, of course, Donald Trump, who apparently believes that if the Dow Jones is on a hot streak, the president should be able to get away with whatever he wants:

Naturally, this isn’t the first time Trump has tried to tie the stock market to the possibility of impeachment. Last August, he told his pals on Fox & Friends, “If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor,” claiming that without his business sense in the White House, “You would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse.” In December, he insisted that “the people would revolt” if impeachment proceedings were brought against him, adding, “It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong and who’s created the greatest economy in the history of our country.” (Ask Bill Clinton how that worked out for him in late 1998, when U.S. stock indices were hitting all-time highs.)

Months later, Trump appears to be slightly more worried about the prospect of impeachment actually happening, raging on Wednesday morning amid a tirade about caravans, drug smugglers, and alleged spying on his campaign: “The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only are there no ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops - and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!”

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