Trump impeachment more likely than removal: US lawmaker

US President Donald Trump’s impeachment is more likely than his immediate removal from office, Democratic lawmaker Brad Sherman says.

Sherman’s announcement to introduce articles of impeachment against the president received a resounding endorsement from constituents during a town hall meeting on Sunday at Reseda High School in Reseda, California, The Los Angeles Times reported.  

Sherman read out the “high crimes and misdemeanors” Trump has committed during his six months in office for which he thinks the president should be impeached and dismissed. Several hundred people who attended the town hall cheered the announcement.

The San Fernando Valley representative, however, also tried to play down expectations for Trump’s immediate removal, either by impeachment or through the 25th Amendment which empowers members of an administration to remove a president in the country’s national interest.

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