Trump says impeachment would ‘crash’ economy

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump warned yesterday the US economy would collapse if he were impeached, as legal chaos roiling the White House has experts saying his presidency is under threat.

Days after Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen told a federal judge he made illegal campaign contributions at the president’s request – to silence women alleging affairs with Trump – the Republican leader told Fox News that an impeachment would only cause

I will tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor.

more turmoil.

“I will tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor,” Trump said on ‘ Fox and Friends.’

“You would see – you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse.”

The US president then launched into a rambling statement on job creation and other economic progress he said had been made during his presidency.

“I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job,” Trump said.

Trump was dealt severe back-to- back blows on Tuesday when Cohen pled guilty to illegal campaign finance violations and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of tax and bank fraud within minutes of each other.

The Manafort conviction was the first case sent to trial by the special prosecutor probing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

But an unchastened Trump appears intent on riding out the storm as Washington grapples with the latest upheaval in his tumultuous presidency. — AFP

Donald Trump, US President