More than 750 historians say the ‘scorn for the rule of law’ shown by the current president is why impeachment rules were drawn up
More than 750 American historians have put their names to a letter urging the US House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump, saying that it is their “considered judgment that if President Trump’s misconduct does not rise to the level of impeachment, then virtually nothing does”.
The 752 historians, who describe themselves as “devoted to studying our nation’s past”, include some of the biggest names in American letters. They range from the much acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro, to Ron Chernow, who has written award-winning lives of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Trump’s “numerous and flagrant abuses of power”, they write in an open letter published on Medium, “are precisely what the framers [of the US constitution] had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president”.
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