Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blasted Republicans for not having the “courage” to force President Donald Trump to vacate the Oval Office.
“I think this is the tragedy for our country,” Dean said. “What Trump has unmasked is not his own lunacy or authoritarianism. Certainly, he’s had that for a long time. What’s been unmasked here is a failure of the country, especially the Republican Party to stand up for America. The — it was correct, the statement that the framers tried to set up something that wasn’t going to happen. But it relied on individuals to stand up for what they believed was right about America. The Republicans have uniformly refused to do that.”
Later in the segment, he acknowledged even if the Democrats take control of the Congress, it would still require Republicans to remove him through the impeachment process.
“This man needs to leave office, and the Democrats can’t do a thing about that,” he added. “And even if we win both the House and the Senate, in the fall, we can’t do anything about it because you need two-thirds of the votes in the Senate to get rid of them. We can’t do it without Republicans. When Dick Nixon cheated the people and lied to their face about a two-bit burglary, the Republicans went to him and said, Mr. President, you have to leave office. There is no courage of any kind in the Republican Party today, and the country depends on their courage.”
(h/t RCP Video)
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