May 8, 2019

Former Trump Transition Official Calls For Impeachment: ‘This Is Serious Stuff’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jw-verret-impeach-trump_n_5cc03f8fe4b01b6b3efaad54?fbclid=IwAR1byaVkqHLKVdYsSf98dGNDAGBk5VTWRX-hl76UXQHibcKTb9Z6RScKA_s
"J.W. Verret, a George Mason University law professor who served on President Donald Trump’s transition team, is calling on Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. “This is serious stuff,” Verret told CNN’s Don Lemon in an interview Tuesday. “The Mueller report I think is something you can’t look away from. I mean you have to admit it: The emperor has no clothes.” Verret, a lifelong Republican, was deputy director of economic policy on Trump’s presidential transition team beginning in August 2016. He quit after just two months, he wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Atlantic, citing concerns over Trump’s views on immigration, financial regulation and Russia. Over time, his view of Trump evolved from distasteful to disastrous. “The Mueller report was that tipping point for me,” Verret wrote, “and it should be for Republican and independent voters, and for Republicans in Congress"."