Former Gop Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that he would back impeachment against President Trump. As The Hill reports:
Former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said Friday he would back President Trump’s impeachment if he were in the House.
“Look, I fought with people on air over, ‘Is there a quid pro quo’ and ‘Does this rise to the level of impeachment.’ I now believe that it does,” Kasich said during an interview on CNN. “And I say it with great sadness. This is not something I really wanted to do.”
John Kasich tells Ana Cabrera that Trump should be impeached. “I say it with great sadness. This is not something that I really wanted to do. …But this behavior, in my opinion, cannot be tolerated.” pic.twitter.com/12YjAGPErM
— Rebecca Buck (@RebeccaBuck) October 18, 2019
The former governor, who ran for president in 2016, said he would vote to advance the impeachment inquiry, but would want to read and carefully consider the articles of impeachment and see how House Democrats make their case before voting to remove Trump from office.
Kasich said acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s comments yesterday indicating the Trump administration held up aid to Ukraine to ensure it investigated issues related to the 2016 election were a breaking point in his view on impeaching Trump.
Kasich has claimed that Trump’s behavior ‘can’t be tolerated,’ but what’s really intolerable is a so-called Republican openly backstabbing the leader of his party.
