Biden Doesn’t Think There Is ‘Basis’ For Trump Impeachment Yet

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CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 01: Former vice president Joe Biden speaks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on November 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Biden addressed the consequences of U.S. disengagement from worl... CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 01: Former vice president Joe Biden speaks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on November 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Biden addressed the consequences of U.S. disengagement from world leadership at the event. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he hopes the Democrats won’t begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump should they win the House next month, urging patience until special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings are complete in a CBS This Morning interview.

“I hope they don’t. I don’t think there’s a basis for doing that right now,” Biden said of impeachment. “There are so many things to attend to immediately. Let’s see where the investigation takes us.”

“I think we should focus on all the terrible things that are happening now in terms of interest of the middle class people and working class people,” he added, singling out Trump’s treatment of unions and the EPA.

Watch part of the interview here:

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  1. That’s because it’s not Mueller time, yet…

  2. What’s wrong with the Democratic party that Republicans get everything and anything they want?

    Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton…and the rest of the very very rich Democratic establishment. Clean house…those are all Demopublicans. Their rhetoric plays to the working class while their actions are all right out of the McConnell Trump playbook.

    Remember all those changes Obama talked up…and yet we didn’t get anything but empty rhetoric and Republican win after Republican win.

    I’m warn out defending Schumer and Pelosi…it’s time for real change or just declare it a one party system…Republican white nationalism.

  3. Of course there are plenty of bases for impeachment and removal right now. But 3 weeks before midterms, prior to any final Mueller report, is not a good time to call for impeachment. It’s just the politics of the moment.

  4. What’s wrong with the Democratic party that Republicans get everything and anything they want?

    Because GOP has the votes. Until we elect more (and better) Dems, GOP will continue to get most of what they want.

  5. What the fuck? Just turn around and PICK something, asshole!

    You can bet your ass if it was Hillary, she would have been impeached several times over already.

    He is conspiring with a foreign government to COVER UP MURDER for chrissakes!!! Right in the goddamn OPEN!!!

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