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Dori: Trump could be impeached because of the Dori Monson Show

Jan 7, 2019, 5:17 PM

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KIRO Radio's Dori Monson spoke with Donald Trump in August 2016, prior to the Republican presidential candidate's scheduled visit to Everett.(AP/MyNorthwest)

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It is now possible that President Donald J. Trump could get impeached because of the Dori Monson Show.

The Democrats, as one representative said so eloquently last week, are determined to impeach President Trump. When I started researching what exactly the Democrats want to impeach Trump for, I realized it all comes back to our radio show.

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As you know, I was adamantly against the impeachment of Bill Clinton for the same reason I am against this impeachment — it was about politics, rather than “treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors,” as the Constitution requires. Bill Clinton lied about having an affair with an intern.

It was a sordid tale, to be sure, but it never struck me as rising to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Our framers set the bar for impeachment very high because I think they knew that if they didn’t, you would have a bunch of partisan hacks who would try to impeach the other party’s president every single time.

It turns out, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) is seeking to impeach Trump for comments that he made on Charlottesville, transgender troops, and NFL players kneeling for the national anthem.

And as you no doubt know, this all started when the president was candidate Trump on the Dori Monson Show. When Trump stopped by the show back in August 2016, we asked him about Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the anthem. This was days after Kaepernick began his anthem protests, and as far as I know, we were the first media outlet to ask Trump about this. He responded:

I think it’s personally not a good thing, I think it’s a terrible thing. And maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen.

Now Al Green is claiming that Trump’s statements are bringing “discourse to a new low” and representing a “level of indecency that is unbecoming of the presidency.”

It’s our fault! I was just asking a question about Colin Kaepernick, and now Al Green wants to impeach the president of the United States.

So there you go. Finally our show may carve out a place, not just in Seattle radio history, but in the history of the United States of America. They will be reading about the Dori Monson Show in history books hundreds of years from now. People will wonder what ever happened to President Trump, and will find out that he was ruined after he just answered a question from a little radio talk show host in the northwest corner of the country.

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