Trump once said Pelosi should've impeached Bush 'for the war'

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last updated 18 December 2019

President Trump used to throw impeachment allegations around like they were nothing.

Sure, Trump suggested his political opponent, former President Barack Obama, be booted out of office on more than one occasion. But he also suggested former President George W. Bush should've been impeached as well, and faulted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for not doing so.

Trump's earlier mention of impeachment came in a CNN interview just before Obama's election in 2008, and he started it with a compliment for Pelosi. "I think she's a very impressive person, I like her a lot," he said, and suggested "It just seemed like she was really going to look to impeach Bush and get him out of office." When asked to expand on why he though Bush should be impeached, Trump exclaimed "for the war!" and "He got us into the war with lies!" He also said former President Bill Clinton's impeachment was over something "totally unimportant," calling it "nonsense."

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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