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Support for Trump's Impeachment Appears Diminished

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The prospects of U.S. Democratic lawmakers impeaching
   President Donald Trump appears to have significantly diminished after
   former special counsel Robert Mueller offered no new explosive
   allegations about the U.S. leader in hours of congressional testimony
   this week.

   One of the overseers of Mueller's hearing, House Intelligence Committee
   Chairman Adam Schiff, told CNN on Thursday, "We do need to be
   realistic, and that is, the only way he's leaving office, at least at
   this point, is by being voted out" in the 2020 election in which Trump
   is seeking a second four-year term.

   "Should we put the country through an impeachment?" Schiff asked
   rhetorically. "I haven't been convinced yet that we should. Going
   through that kind of momentous and disruptive experience for the
   country, I think, is not something we go into lightly."

   He said Democratic "efforts need to be made in every respect to make
   sure we turn out our people" to vote against the Republican Trump in
   the November 2020 election.

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