Trump’s impeachment only possible through popular movement: Analyst
US President Donald Trump’s impeachment is only possible through a “people’s movement” and not the “desperate” attempts made by the Democratic Party, says an American political analyst.
Daniel Shaw, a university lecturer in New York, told Press TV on Sunday that the recent push by Democrats in the House of Representatives to impeach Trump due to his mental fitness for the job “misses the point.”
Supported by at least 25 Dems, the legislation, introduced by Representative Jamie Raskin, would create an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity, an 11-member panel made up of mostly physicians and psychiatrists, to judge the president’s mental fitness for office.
“First and foremost, Donald Trump is a megalomaniac; a narcissist; a xenophobe; a racist; a misogynist,” said Shaw. “He is all of these things and a thousand other negative characteristics one could use to describe a human being.”
However, he said the Democrats would resort to anything they can in order to impeach Trump.
“The Democrats are really so desperate to impeach Trump they will use any excuse,” he argued, citing the Russian collusion claims that “none of which have been proven with any actual concrete facts.”
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“So these latest allegations that he should be removed from office because he is mentally ill I think really miss the point,” the analyst continued.
Shaw agreed with the notion of an impeachment but said the goal should only be achieved through a “popular, multi-national people’s movement” because his policies pose a risk to the whole world.
On Sunday, thousands of angry protesters rallied in various cities across the US to demand Trump’s impeachment.
The developments came as the new Republican president’s disapproval rating was reported to be on its way to cross 60 percent.
The results of a Gallup poll released Sunday showed that nearly 57 percent of voters did not approve of the job Trump was doing as president.
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