With million+ signatures, petition to impeach
Trump surges
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A petition to impeach Donald Trump, part of a multimillion-dollar campaign bankrolled
by billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, has garnered more than a
million signatures since it launched less than two weeks ago.
Growing support for the petition
comes as Trump's approval rating hits an all-time low of 33 percent in
Gallup's three-day
polling average—even lower than his 38 percent approval
rating from an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll published Sunday.
Both polls preceded the developments on
Monday in the federal
investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded
with the Russian government to influence last year's election.
In addition to the petition, Steyer—a prominent Democratic donor—has called on every governor and the mayors of 2,000 cities to publicly disclose their positions on impeaching the president, and even paid for a televised advertisement that aired during the Fox & Friends, a Fox News morning show that Trump is known to watch.
The ad seemed to catch the attention
of the president, who lashed out on Twitter Friday morning:
✔@realDonaldTrumpWacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!6:58 AM - Oct 27, 2017
Steyer, who responded on
Twitter a few hours later, said: "You're right about one thing, Mr. Trump.
I have been fighting your racism and corporate groveling from the beginning—and
always will. Americans deserve much better."
"I was sitting on a plane to
L.A. at 5:30AM when someone sent me an email saying, 'Hey, by the way, the
president tweeted about you,'" Steyer told Axios.
He added that Trump met "the
standard for impeachment" long ago, based on allegations that the
president obstructed justice and has violated the constitution's emoluments
clause, but "the Mueller indictments put
us in a place where impeachment is firmly on the table."
"From now on," Steyer
said, "every conversation about the administration has to include when
he's going to be impeached."
