A Republican governor has come out in favor of impeachment
On Thursday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) became the first Republican governor to announce he's backing an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
"I support getting the facts in that inquiry that's happening today," he told WCAX. "So I think this is, these are serious allegations. ... We need to make sure that we do the fact-finding and figure out what exactly did happen."
Most Republican lawmakers are staying mum on the matter, although some, like Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), sound like they might be on the fence. He wouldn't go so far as saying Trump should be impeached, but he did tell The Dallas Morning News on Thursday night that there are "a lot of disturbing allegations" in the whistleblower's complaint.
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Hurd, a former CIA officer who announced in August he will not seek re-election, said House Democrats and the White House both failed to properly handle the complaint, which should have been sent to Congress after the intelligence community's inspector general found it credible and of urgent concern. "The pressure that that person is going to get is going to be unreal," he said of the whistleblower. "That is the reason why this whole process should have been handled a little more delicately."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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