LEGAL/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The elephant in the room whenever talking about Donald Trump and the Russia investigation is the big ‘I’ word — impeachment.
The word had been in the not-so-far reaches of liberal conspiracy talk since Trump was elected. There’s a web site with more than 976,000 signed onto a petition encouraging Congress to impeach Trump. There’s even an ‘Impeach Donald Trump’ Twitter handle.
It is highly unlikely — there’s almost zero chance — Trump would be impeached by a Republican Congress.
But with the revelation that James Comey, who was fired as FBI director, penned a memo after a Valentine’s Day meeting with Trump in which Comey associates say Trump asked him to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the ‘I’ word is creeping its way into the mainstream.
Asked on CNN by Wolf Blitzer after the news broke Tuesday evening if Trump could face impeachment, Maine independent Angus King said, ‘Reluctantly, Wolf, I have to say yes simply because obstruction of justice is such a serious offense.’ “
-Domenico Montanaro, “Trump Impeachment Talk Grows From Conspiracy Theory To Mainstream,” NPR, May 17, 2017 8:24am