My impeachment would ‘crash’ economy: Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump warned on Thursday 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 that 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.” “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job.” Trump was dealt severe back-to-back blows on Tuesday when Cohen pled 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. The Manafort conviction was the first case sent to trial by the special prosecutor probing Russian meddling in the 2016 poll. — AFP