Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, said if Democrats don't impeach President Trump he is going to continue to act unconstitutionally and win in 2020.



"We don't need more to impeach this president and if they don't do it, I think the Democrats are going to lose in 2020, and probably deserve to lose," Painter argued Monday night on MSNBC.





"This president has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors and what is happening when the House refuses to impeach him, is that he continues to do more and more of it," Painter said. "That is what is happening. He is emboldened to continue to violate the constitution, whether it's the unconstitutional emoluments, whether he is using foreign governments to get to his political opponents, ignoring House subpoenas, showing the middle finger to the United States Congress, the abuses at the border, the list goes on and on and on, and as Speaker Pelosi doesn't have the courage to impeach him, he's going to keep on doing it."



"The other thing he's going to do is stand up in the election in 2020, look at his opponent and say look, I didn't do anything wrong," he said. "It's not illegal. If it were illegal, a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives would have impeached me. He is getting a pass from this Congress. It's critically important that the House not only start impeachment investigations formally, but that they vote on articles of impeachment. All of the evidence is already there. We don't need more to impeach this president and if they don't do it, I think the Democrats are going to lose in 2020, and probably deserve to lose."



"Wow," MSNBC host Ari Melber reacted.