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Trump Responds to Billionaire Steyer’s Impeachment Campaign

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">The billionaire and avid democratic party supporter&comma; Tom Steyer has spent over &dollar;10 million on a national TV ad calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">This is Steyer&rsquo&semi;s latest anti-Trump effort and is demanding &ldquo&semi;that elected officials take a stand&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Steyer goes as far to say Trump is &ldquo&semi;mentally unstable&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&&num;8220&semi;A Republican Congress once impeached a president for far less&period; And today&comma; people in Congress and his own administration know that this President is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons&comma;&&num;8221&semi; says Steyer in the ad&comma; which stars himself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Like you&comma; I&rsquo&semi;m a citizen who knows it&rsquo&semi;s up to us to do something&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Steyer directly to viewers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The ad is being aired in New York and California&comma; along with on national on cable TV&period; Steyer is funding the campaign entirely on his own and isn&rsquo&semi;t pulling funds from his NextGen America political apparatus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The ad directs viewers to NeedToImpeach&period;com that features an open letter from Steyer where he criticizes the president on some of his actions and policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&&num;8220&semi;He has threatened to reduce aid for millions of American citizens in Puerto Rico who are struggling to survive without drinkable water or electricity &&num;8212&semi; a move that would be a total dereliction of his duty&period; And every day&comma; Americans are left bracing for a Twitter screed that could set off a nuclear war&period; These actions represent systemic attacks on our nation&&num;8217&semi;s future&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes Steyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Trump was quick to put Steyer on blast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Wacky &amp&semi; totally unhinged Tom Steyer&comma; who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning&comma; never wins elections&excl;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump early Friday morning&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Steyer then followed his Twitter response to Trump with another series of tweets&comma;&nbsp&semi;addressing citizens&nbsp&semi;and politicians to support his impeachment campaign&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I have been fighting your racism and corporate groveling from the beginning and always will&period; Americans deserve much better&period; Americans across the board know you&&num;8217&semi;re a danger to the people of this country&period; &commat;NancyPelosi &commat;SenSchumer it&&num;8217&semi;s time to take a stand&period; Hundreds of thousands of Americans are adding voices to the movement to impeach this President&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s only a matter of time until he is gone&period; Sign our petition today and tell Congress to impeach Impresident Trump&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Forbes&period;<&sol;em> &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">But the wildly expensive ad isn&rsquo&semi;t all that Steyer will be spending his millions on&period; He told <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Forbes<&sol;em> that it will also be supported by a multi-million-dollar digital advertising campaign&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Only a few Democrats&comma; including Congressmen&nbsp&semi;Brad Sherman of California and Al Green of Texas&comma; have introduced impeachment measures in the House&comma; but Steyer is the first to dedicate so much funding to this cause&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Other organizations have launched campaigns with the same mission on petition outlets&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Steyer&rsquo&semi;s petition&nbsp&semi;comes on the heels of&nbsp&semi;ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow&period;org&comma;&nbsp&semi;a&nbsp&semi;campaign run by non-profit organizations Free Speech For People and RootsAction&comma; which has&nbsp&semi;so far&nbsp&semi;recruited 1&period;2 million signatures&period; In August&comma; the Impeach Donald Trump Now campaign&nbsp&semi;crowd-funded just over &dollar;5&comma;000 for a billboard&nbsp&semi;less than a mile away from President Trump&rsquo&semi;s Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach&comma; Florida&comma; calling for petition signatures&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Forbes&period;<&sol;em> &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">This ad could potentially be the start of Steyer&rsquo&semi;s plans to run for president himself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">He has been considering running for California governor in 2018 and then president in 2020&period; This proves that he certainly has the funds to do so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Should it be allowed that the 1&percnt; take advantage of the political system like this&quest; Shouldn&rsquo&semi;t there be a cap&quest; This is the danger of big money in politics&period; A billionaire like Steyer can casually launch a &dollar;10 million propaganda campaign&period;&nbsp&semi;That is a lot of influence to wield on a whim just because he can as a billionaire&period; It&rsquo&semi;s important to point out that this is a problem on both sides though&period; Also&comma; why can&rsquo&semi;t people respectfully accept that Trump was elected by the majority of Americans&quest; He won fair and square&period; It&rsquo&semi;s time for the Democrats to get over it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> How do you restrict donations to political causes without running afoul of the First Amendment&quest; Not sure how to solve this problem&period;&nbsp&semi; Watch for Larry Horist&&num;8217&semi;s commentary tomorrow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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