Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on Sunday characterized President Donald Trump as a “really bad kid in the White House,” but stopped short of calling for his impeachment.
In an interview with CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Swalwell, who is among the large field of Democrats vying in the 2020 presidential race, said Trump “is taking us down that road,” referring to impeachment.
“It’s maybe the only road to save the country,” he declared.
“I’m a father of a- a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old,” Swalwell explained. “We're going through the terrible twos. When my son misbehaves, we take a toy away. We know if we don't do that, he's only going to get worse.
“We have a really bad kid at the White House and unless we start showing that there are consequences for their actions, he's only going to get worse. And the next kid, the next president, is going to look at what we did now and judge their actions based on whether there were consequences or not.”
Swalwell wouldn’t repeat his previous accusations that Trump was an agent of the Russians, but said he believes the president “acts on their behalf.”
“I think 10 years from now we're going to look at what happened this week and we're going to say, ‘Are you kidding me?’” he said. “After Russia attacked the United States, after the special counsel laid out 200 pages of links between the Russians and the Trumps and how they tried to help him, our president instead of calling the Russian president saying, ‘don't do this again,’ he talked to him for an hour and a half and said that the Russian president was smiling. I mean that is just nutty. That is putting the Russian's interests ahead of the United States' interests.”
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