'Do you think anyone in Washington in the GOP is serious about impeachment?' Beck said. Beck: Obama 'wants' impeachment

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck is charging President Barack Obama with hyping up talks of impeachment as a way to win the “PR battle.”

“The birther thing is over, the black thing is over, so now … he needs to be able to call for justice,” Beck said during his show on Monday.


“Do you think anyone in Washington in the GOP is serious about impeachment?” Beck continued. “Do you think one person? Have you spoken to one person? Not one. So who wants it? The president does. Because then he’ll be able to say, ‘I demand justice.’”

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Beck himself has called for the president’s impeachment last year after the White House announced it would be waiving part of the Arms Export Control Act to allow “non-lethal assistance” to the Syrian rebels.

“I have to tell you, I’m gravely concerned because I don’t think we’re going to win this immigration battle, I really don’t,” Beck said on Monday. “I think it’s going to go the way it always does because they’re going to win the PR battle and the president is going to change the subject and he’s going to make it about impeachment.”

Beck’s claim comes just days after a CNN/ORC poll found that 33 percent of Americans think the president should be impeached and removed from office, compared with 65 percent who did not support impeachment. Earlier, on July 8, former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin called for the president’s impeachment in a column for the conservative website Breitbart after what she said was poor handling of an influx of undocumented migrants crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border.