mobanmarketNEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment on Friday, calling the president’s openness to political dirt from foreign governments “treasonous.” The mayor is at least the 12th Democratic presidential candidate to express support for an impeachment inquiry into the Republican commander-in-chief.
“He has to be impeached,” de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
De Blasio’s comments came two days after Trump said he would listen if foreign governments offered him information about a political opponent. Asked by ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos if his campaign should accept such information or report it to the FBI, Trump said, “I think maybe you do both.”
“I think you might want to listen, there’s nothing wrong with listening,” he said in the ABC interview. “If somebody called from a country, Norway, ‘we have information on your opponent.’ Oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”
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De Blasio had previously said that Democrats should be more concerned about issues facing working people than impeachment. But Trump’s apparent invitation to political assistance from foreign countries was “the last straw,” the mayor said.
“What he said was openly treasonous,” de Blasio said. “It was an invitation to hostile foreign governments to find information on American leaders and give it to Donald Trump to help Donald Trump.”
Eleven other Democratic White House hopefuls favor an impeachment probe for Trump, including U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, according to news reports.
While 61 percent of Americans reportedly oppose impeachment, New Yorkers are more divided on the issue.
Some 45 percent of Empire State voters think the House Judiciary Committee should open an impeachment investigation following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into election interference, according to a Siena College poll released Tuesday.
But another 50 percent say the case is closed even though more than half think Trump committed an impeachable offense based on Mueller’s report, the poll shows.