Donald Trump cautions against his removal from office
US president unchastened after double legal setbacks
US President Donald Trump warned on Thursday that the US economy would collapse if he were impeached, as legal chaos roiling the White House has experts saying his presidency is under threat. Days after Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen told a federal judge he made illegal campaign contributions at the president’s request — to silence women alleging affairs with Trump — the Republican leader told Fox News an impeachment would only cause more turmoil. "I will tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor," Trump said on Fox and Friends. "You would see — you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse." Trump was dealt back-to-back blows on Tuesday when Cohen pleaded guilty to illegal campaign finance violations and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of tax and bank fraud within minutes of each other.
But an unchastened Trump appears intent on riding out the storm as Washington gra...
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