DEMS/ECONOMY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [8-22-18] that ‘the market would crash’ and ‘everybody would be very poor’ if Democrats were to take control of the House of Representatives after November’s midterm elections and then impeach him…The president sat for the interview as impeachment talk swirled around him in the wake of two nearly simultaneous legal punches: former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s conviction on eight charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller and a guilty plea by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who told a Manhattan federal court that he broke campaign-finance laws ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.’ The Cohen plea deal could implicate the president in campaign wrongdoings, and has raised the stakes for possible impeachment proceedings if the Democrats gain a majority in Congress this fall, as many have predicted they will. Trump has maintained that the Mueller investigation is a ‘witch hunt’ and has loudly insisted that his campaign did not collude with the Russian government. While the president’s mounting legal troubles have fueled talk of impeachment, House Democratic leaders have sought to tamp down such discussion, warning rank-and-file members against using the word “impeachment.” Instead, Democrats leaders urged their members to paint the Trump administration as corrupt and to suggest that a Democratic House would be a powerful check on the White House.”
-Stephanie Murray, “Trump says ‘market would crash’ if he were impeached,” Politico, August 23, 2018 7:44 am