In an interview that aired Thursday morning, Fox and Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked Trump whether he believed Democrats would impeach him if they win more seats in Congress after the November elections.
“Well, you know, I guess it says something like high crimes and all,” Trump responded. “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. I will tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see — you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in.”
Trump went on to claim Hillary Clinton would have been bad for economic growth, brag about the Republican tax cut (that in reality, increased the federal deficit), and say that China likes him “very much.” (China-U.S. tensions are on the rise, and the Pentagon recently put out a report that said the Chinese military is “training for strikes against U.S. and allied targets.”)
To be clear, a president’s impeachment does not hinge on how the economy is performing, or on whether China likes the United States at a particular moment.
“I give myself an A+,” Trump said during the Fox & Friends interview. “I don’t think any president has ever done what I have done.”
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