Statement of Democratic Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson on the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump
Des Moines – If I were a member of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, would I have voted to impeach the president? Yes. But I would not have done so with any sense that that’s going to solve the deeper problem. The president has not created the rot among us, so much as he has exposed it.
He was the inevitable consequence of our failure to uphold the moral values without which American democracy cannot thrive. He is a symptom, he is not the cause of all this dysfunction. He is mirroring to us a very ugly face of America, but unfortunately, that face was already there. It was underground and now it’s above ground. If all we do is impeach the president, then the problem simply goes underground again.
We must commit ourselves to the transformation of our country through a moral, democratic, and humanitarian regeneration. Nothing less than that will solve the problem, because behind Trump there are many more troops in the political army he now leads.
