Former President Jimmy Carter has some sage advice for Democrats: Don’t try to impeach President Trump.
“I don’t talk about impeachment,” he said Tuesday during an interview with FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto. “I think that’s the wrong thing for Democrats to do.”
Democrats are hoping to take over the House during the mid-term elections, and with control of the chamber, they could move ahead with what Democratic leader Rep. Maxine Waters has been pushing for since Jan. 20, 2017: Impeachment.
But as Democrats near that purported House takeover, more and more are shying away from the notion. Many want to wait for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to conclude his investigation into allegations of Russian collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in order to influence the 2016 presidential election.
In his interview, Cavuto also asked Carter about Trump’s assertion that the stock market would collapse if Democrats impeach him.
“You know, I think the president has much less influence over the economy than is certainly publicized by the president himself,” Carter said. “But whenever the economy goes up, the president always wants to take credit for it. Whenever the economy goes down, the president wants to avoid responsibility. And I think it’s been that way in our country ever since we started.”
Spoken like the true “malaise” president.
Carter also criticized Trump’s reaction to the death of Sen. John McCain.
“I thought that President Trump made a mistake at first by not recognizing John McCain’s unquestioned commitment to our country in the Navy and as a prisoner of war and also in his service in Congress,” said Carter, who, like McCain, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
“And I think both his critics and also his supporters made it plain to him that he had made a mistake when the flag was up and down and so forth,” Carter said. “But I think that his last statement that I read yesterday has basically corrected that and now the flag will be lowered in honor of John McCain’s service to our country until the appropriate time. So, I think the early mistakes that had been made have been adequately corrected.”