Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist and Democratic mega-donor, said he’s heading to the heart of New York City for the next step of his $20 million ad campaign urging the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
“We’re putting a couple of large billboards in Times Square calling for the impeachment of the president,” Steyer said Monday in an interview. “We legitimately feel that this is the huge issue in front of the American people that no one is standing up for what the overwhelming number of Americans think.”
The digital billboards, unveiled Monday, will be on display for 10 minutes every hour through New Year’s Eve, according to Need to Impeach, the political group founded by Steyer.
Steyer, a co-founder of Farallon Capital Management who left the San Francisco-based hedge fund in 2012 to spend his time and fortune fighting climate change, has become one of the most vocal opponents of Trump.
In a campaign-style commercial that has been running on television since last month, Steyer looks into the camera and calls Trump a “clear and present danger,” accusing him of obstructing justice and taking the U.S. to the brink of a nuclear war.
“If this is not a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become?” Steyer says in the ad. “I’m funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment.”
The ad provoked a response from Trump, who attacked Steyer on Twitter.
“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from the beginning, never wins elections!” Trump tweeted last month.
The commercial also ran on Fox News’s Fox & Friends program, which Trump watches regularly. Fox News later stopped running the ad.
Six Democrats in Congress introduced articles of impeachment against Trump last week. House Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Al Green of Texas, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Adriano Espaillat of New York and John Yarmuth of Kentucky have called for immediate impeachment hearings against Trump.
But top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, have not embraced the idea of trying to win control of Congress by running on an impeachment platform.
Steyer said the impeachment campaign was about direct democracy, and isn’t a part of his broader efforts to help Democrats win in the 2018 elections.
“It seems as if elected officials don’t think this is the time or don’t think that it’s tactically smart,” he said. “We’re not trying to be tactically smart. We’re not trying to in some way, shape or form use this for the ’18 midterms.”
Steyer was the biggest individual political donor during the 2016 election. Through his political action committee, NextGen Climate, Steyer has pledged to spend millions of dollars backing candidates in 2018.
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Steyer, you seem to be so “knowledgeable” in Trump’s impeachable “offenses”. Yet there’s not 1 that warrants his impeachment, unlike Obama who committed 25! impeachable offenses although they were covered up by the media, the CIA and FBI but you had no problem with them. You hypocrite, hater of American and American people.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/25-impeachable-obama-scandals-far-more-serious-than-comey-firing/
Obama’s Iran nuke deal
Obama knew about Hillary’s private email server
Obama IRS targets conservatives
Obama’s DOJ spies on AP reporters
Obamacare & Obama’s false promises
Illegal-alien amnesty by executive order
Benghazi-gate
Operation Fast & Furious
5 Taliban leaders for Bergdahl
Extortion 17
‘Recess ‘ appointments – when Senate was in session
Appointment of ‘czars’ without Senate approval
Suing Arizona for enforcing federal law
Refusal to defend Defense of Marriage Act
Illegally conducting war against Libya
NSA: Spying on Americans
Muslim Brotherhood ties
Miriam Carey
Birth certificate
Executive orders
Solyndra and the lost $535 million
Egypt
Cap & Trade: When in doubt, bypass Congress
Refusal to prosecute New Black Panthers
Obama’s U.S. citizen ‘hit list’
Who appointed STEYER King of America?. He is the one who should be impeached
“Fighting climate change” “Environmentalist” a real do-gooder. Wow.
Does this dunce really want Mike Pence as his President??? If this idiots desires comes true and Trump is impeached and has to resign, did he think of who’s next in line? Mike Pence is a real true god-fearing Conservative. Steyer is a lot dumber than he looks.
Wow a Democrat wants trump out, what a shock!
At least he’s not ajew.
I think he is.
I went to yeshivasha with a Steiger
Citizen revolt. Steyer is rich. Moons determine the outcome. His [Steyer] idea is inconclusive speech. The voter does not impeach.
IF YOU DON’T WHOM THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA ELECTED AS PRESIDENT YOU CAN MOVE TO CUBA AND LIVE THE WITH CASTRO…………………………
Steyer suffers from extreme OCD, The problem is he also has a lot of money.
The more the people hate you…the more you know you are doing something right…!
Go President Trump.
We’ve never had a more open, honest and ” unsophisticated ” President before. I’ll take the unsophisticated anytime over the liars cheaters, politicians. ..Go Mr. President.. you can tweet all you want…don’t bother me, so long as our country is safe, protected and on an upward course!