When he hasn’t been advocating the re-invasion of Afghanistan or fundraising off of President Joe Biden’s troop withdrawal, the ex-president has been fielding phone calls from members of Congress trying to gin up support in the U.S. House for impeaching his successor. In recent weeks, Trump has talked to multiple GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss their progress—or lack thereof—on impeaching Biden over last month’s tumultuous, violent withdrawal from the Afghanistan war, according to two Republican sources with knowledge of the situation.
One of the sources said most of the conversations have been initiated by lawmakers themselves, as they try to recruit the former president to publicly support various legislative attempts to embarrass Biden, either by the impeachment of him, members of his administration or by invoking the 25th Amendment.
And yet, Trump has been somewhat resistant to attach his name to these efforts.
The twice-impeached former president has been prolific in calling for Biden to “RESIGN,” and has repeatedly fundraised off of the demands. For now, however, Trump has been less eager to publicly back an impeachment drive on the Hill, or to even acknowledge that his GOP allies in Congress have talked to him about it.
Reached for comment on Tuesday night, Trump’s spokeswoman Liz Harrington said that “this is totally false,” that the ex-president has privately discussed a potential Biden impeachment.
Still, the knowledgeable sources said Trump has privately supported some of the efforts to remove Biden, even as he’s stayed mostly quiet on impeachment, specifically.
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