"By
Tom Steyer
Aug. 26, 2018 3:23 p.m. ET
As news spread that Michael Cohen’s plea deal had all but named President Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal crime, I thought back to a conversation I had earlier this summer in South Carolina.
A woman approached me at the end of our Need to Impeach Town Hall in Columbia, where I’d discussed the threat Donald Trump poses to our democracy. At 52, she was a lifelong Republican, but she couldn’t understand why her party’s elected leaders wouldn’t stand up to Mr. Trump.
“We’re under attack by our own president,” she told me.
She’s far from the only GOP supporter who feels this way. More than 500,000 people who have added their voices to our call to impeach Mr. Trump and ultimately remove him from office identify as Republicans. When I meet these voters at our Town Hall events, they often tell me how disgusted they feel watching Mr. Trump trample their party’s core beliefs as he erodes the foundations of our country.
The GOP, as they’ve told me, has always emphasized that America must be a nation of laws. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, party leaders agreed on a platform asserting that “the rule of law is the foundation of our Republic.” Yet Mr. Trump has been dismantling the rule of law to try to protect himself........."
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