President Donald Trump says he believes the economy would tank if he were to be impeached.
Trump was asked in an interview with "Fox & Friends" if he believes Democrats will launch impeachment proceedings if they win the House this fall, as many suspect.
He says, "If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor."
Trump says Americans would see economic "numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse."
But Trump is also expressing doubt that that would ever happen.
He says, "I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job."
The president cited record unemployment numbers, saying if his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton were elected instead, the country would not be in the position it is in today. Trump has long-touted his administration's ability to deliver on "amazing" economic growth figures, this time crediting much of the country's success to the GOP tax cut plan, "fairer" trade deals and cutting government regulation.Â
Meanwhile, with two of President Trump's former allies now felons, Democrats seem more eager to accuse Republicans of widespread corruption ahead of the November midterm elections.
But it's a tricky argument for Democrats as they try to avoid direct talk of impeachment and not lose focus of their economic arguments on health care and taxes.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recalled Wednesday that Democrats won House control in 2006 by hammering on GOP corruption. And she promised that Democrats would hold Trump accountable. But she also encouraged her colleagues not to abandon bread-and-butter issues.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez walked a similar tightrope at the national party's summer gathering in Chicago.
Some state party leaders with hot races say they'd be fine with avoiding the matter altogether.
(The Associated Press, CBS News contributed to this report.)
