Trump's 2008 Standard for Impeachment Applies Directly to His Own Presidency In October 2008, Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and said something most Republican politicians wouldn't dare put on record. According to Trump, Bush had earned impeachment not through partisan grievance, but through deliberate deception that dragged the country into war. Trump praised Nancy Pelosi in the same breath, describing her as "a very impressive person," before pivoting to a wi