By Dan Nowicki | The Republic
Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday raised the prospect of impeachment if President Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller without cause.
“We are begging the president not to fire the special counsel. Don’t create a constitutional crisis,” Flake, a retiring one-term Arizona Republican, said in a Twitter message. “Congress cannot preempt such a firing. Our only constitutional remedy is after the fact, through impeachment. No one wants that outcome. Mr. President, please don’t go there.”
The tweet using the “I” word — impeachment — marked an escalation in Flake’s rhetoric about Trump; on Sunday, Flake warned that firing Mueller was “a massive red line that can’t be crossed.”
It also comes on the heels of Flake’s visit Friday to New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state, where Flake introduced himself to the Granite State as a traditional conservative while slamming Trump in a speech at Saint Anselm College in Manchester.
