If the House goes to the Democrats through the midterm elections, it will likely mean the beginning of impeachment investigations into President Donald Trump and his actions, Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday.
"We know what it means for the president," Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, told "Fox and Friends." "The likely chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who represents this part of Manhattan where we are right now, Congressman Jerrold Nadler said the first of the investigations will be a shadow investigation of Bob Mueller's investigation. Did the president fire Jim Comey for improper purpose and if so is that impeachable?"
After that, the questions will be whether Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath to get confirmed, said Napolitano.
"Now, in the case of the former, the investigation of the president, they want to be able to lay out on national television whatever Bob Mueller has acquired that he keeps secret, as the law requires," said the judge. "In the case of Justice Kavanaugh...for the sake of argument that he lied, I don't believe there is any evidence that he did. They would be re removing him from office for something he didn't do well in office. They don't care. They want to use the impeachment power to vindicate their view of government."
Further, Democrats will want to look into how much money Trump and his family earned when foreign diplomats stay at Trump-managed hotels in New York City and in Washington, and even at his income tax return, said Napolitano.
Democrats haven't been speaking much about impeachment, he added, because "Nancy Pelosi sent out the word, sent out the message, don't use the 'I word.' They have followed that lock step until tomorrow morning."
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