{"id":80082,"date":"2017-08-06T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80082"},"modified":"2017-08-06T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:42:11","slug":"maxine-waters-suggests-dems-should-pursue-impeaching-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80082","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Waters Suggests Dems Should Pursue Impeaching Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cfcdn.newsmax.comGetFile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80085\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cfcdn.newsmax.comGetFile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cfcdn.newsmax.comGetFile.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cfcdn.newsmax.comGetFile-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Devaney<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Maxine Waters, D-Calif., thinks Vice President Mike Pence should be the target of impeachment talk &#8220;when we finish with Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters, a harsh critic of President Donald Trump, appeared on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; Friday and was asked about her recent comment that suggested Pence is already\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/maxine-waters-pence-inauguration-trump\/2017\/07\/31\/id\/804796\/\"><strong>planning his inauguration.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a joke,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What I wanted to do was needle them a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was then asked if she believes Pence would do a better job than Trump and replied with a verbal gaffe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, and when we finish with Trump we have to go and get Putin,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Waters quickly corrected herself and said she was referring to Pence, not Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Waters said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/maxine-waters-donald-trump-deplorable-robert-mueller\/2017\/08\/04\/id\/805870\/\"><strong>earlier Friday<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Trump is &#8220;the most deplorable person I&#8217;ve ever met in my life.&#8221; She believes special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the Department of Justice&#8217;s Russia investigation, will find evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Pence has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/agenda-collusion-investigation-Mike-Pence\/2017\/07\/17\/id\/802052\/\"><strong>stayed out of the Russia fray<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and is continuing his work uninterrupted as the nation&#8217;s No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/maxine-waters-suggests-democrats-pursue\/2017\/08\/04\/id\/805935\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/maxine-waters-suggests-democrats-pursue\/2017\/08\/04\/id\/805935\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}