Palin joins ‘impeach Obama’ call
What you need to know:
- “It’s time to impeach,” Ms Palin wrote, focusing on the president’s use of executive orders to ram through legal action opposed by many Republicans.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday
Sarah Palin called for President Barack Obama’s impeachment Wednesday over his handling of a growing immigration crisis, becoming the most prominent right-wing US politician to make the provocative demand.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee wrote on conservative website Breitbart that Obama’s “unsecured border crisis is the last straw,” and that lawmakers should evict him from the White House, 30 months before his scheduled departure.
Executive orders
“It’s time to impeach,” Ms Palin wrote, focusing on the president’s use of executive orders to ram through legal action opposed by many Republicans.
“President Obama’s rewarding of lawlessness, including his own, is the foundational problem here,” she added.
“It’s not going to get better, and in fact irreparable harm can be done in this lame-duck term as he continues to make up his own laws as he goes along.”
Ms Palin’s remarks follow those of several far-right Republican politicians who have also demanded Obama’s exit.
They include Senator James Inhofe, who last year suggested Obama could be impeached for an alleged White House cover-up after the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. (AFP)
