Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council
White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro said Monday, Jan. 11, that President Donald Trump (Trump) is eager to defend himself against new impeachment by Democrats.
In an interview with Bannon’s “War Room,” Navarro said, “The president is just defending himself on this issue, and we have the evidence.”
He added, “Go ahead, because we have the evidence.”
Navarro did not elaborate on the specific response Trump will make.
Democrats on Monday issued a resolution accusing Trump of “sedition” by holding him responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by protesters. In a speech that day, Trump called on supporters to go to the Capitol, but stressed that they should remain peaceful.
Democrats have been trying to pressure Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to pass the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the presidency. Pence previously publicly announced he did not support doing so, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Democrats should drop the matter, noting that Trump’s term ends in just a few days, according to the Epoch Times.
Navarro said a second effort to impeach Trump “just opens a huge door.”
“They overplayed it. They always overplay. It’s going to kind of hit them,” he said.
On Monday, the Republican House blocked a resolution that would have called on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment for the presidency.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent letter that Democrats plan to proceed with impeachment if Pence and the Cabinet do not invoke the amendment.
Many Republican lawmakers urged Democrats to give serious thought to the effort, saying that proceeding with impeachment would further divide an already divided nation.
“A president’s impeachment should not happen in the moment, but should be well thought out,” a group of House Republican lawmakers said in a letter to Biden on Saturday. “We would urge you to encourage Speaker Pelosi to immediately shelve this partisan effort.”
Democrats successfully initiated a vote to impeach Trump in the House last year, but the Senate voted to reject the decision.
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