Sarah Palin: Donald Trump impeachment will 'help his re-election bid'

15 January 2020, 10:05

Sarah Palin said the charges against Donald Trump are 'trumped up'
Sarah Palin said the charges against Donald Trump are 'trumped up'. Picture: PA

By Megan White

President Donald Trump’s impeachment will “help his re-election bid,” according to former US politician Sarah Palin.

The Republican, who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009, claimed the media is “so biased against Donald Trump” and could prevent him from having a fair trial.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Ms Palin said the charges against Mr Trump were “trumped up.”

She said: “I think the American people are savvy enough to understand how political this is.

“It’s going to help President Trump in his re-election bid.

“There are people all over this country who are pretty united in the way we are looking at the charges against Trump, which are trumped up!

“They are not really after Donald Trump, they are after us… they want us to sit down and shut up.

“It is being made manifest through their efforts against Donald Trump, they are not after him, they are after us.

“I absolutely agree it would be inappropriate for a sitting president to withhold aid just to poke a political opponent because people get hurt.

“But the concern here is nobody knows who to believe, right, because the media tells us one thing and the one side says one thing and one side says the other.

“That’s the danger of having a media machine that everybody can recognise as so biased against Donald Trump… a fair trial - Donald Trump wants that and we want that.”

Asked if politicians could deliver a ‘fair trial’, she added: “We have to put our faith in these politicians to do the will of the people… we have to hold them all accountable and let us trust them, at least thus far, that they are going to be honest and fair.”

Palin went on: “What we do appreciate about Donald Trump is that he is not a typical politician with his finger to the wind, no, he is directing the wind.

“That’s what we expected, we expected no more business as usual. It is a mess and he’s trying to clear it up.

“More power to him for tweeting it out there as he ain’t getting fair coverage from the press.”

More Latest News

See more More Latest News

Rescuers searching through rubble

Paramedics among 16 people killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon

Hairdressers in Paris

French legislators ponder law to ban discrimination based on a person’s hair

HMP Bedford

Undercover reporter hired to work in jail with no vetting 'shocked by lack of security and open drug-taking'

Australian products in Shanghai

China ends tariffs on Australian wine as relations between countries thaw

Police are hunting for the knifeman behind the Beckenham attack

Lawless London: Manhunt continues for knifeman who stabbed train passenger - as two more injured in Tube station attack

Exclusive
The first gay couple to marry in the UK has expressed "outrage" at the Rwanda Bill

First gay couple to marry in UK ten years ago say government should do more to protect LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

Soldiers in giant fuel tank

US military drains giant wartime fuel tanks which had poisoned water supply

Paul O'Grady and his husband Andre Portasio

Paul O'Grady's husband opens up on TV star's final day and fight to save him as beloved dog nuzzled his neck

Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX founder Bankman-Fried facing decades in prison for crypto fraud

Exclusive
Brits travelling to the EU will need to have their fingerprints taken

'UK not ready and won't be' for new EU passport checks at borders, warns head of trade body

Aiden Minnis (left) and Ben Stimson (right) joined the Russian military

British traitor fighting for Russia in Ukraine says he is 'prepared to die' for Putin after family 'disowns him'

Austria Navalny

Portraits of Alexei Navalny unveiled next to Soviet soldier monument in Vienna

Hawaii Wildfire

Hawaii fire survivors moving into housing but 3,000 still in hotels

King Charles recorded the Easter message earlier this month.

King Charles stresses ‘importance of friendship in times of need’ in Easter message as royals face double cancer battle

Trump Investigations Eastman

Judge says former Trump lawyer should be debarred

A man is seen with a huge zombie knife on a train towards Beckenham Junction on Wednesday afternoon

Man fighting for life after being stabbed by attacker with zombie knife on train in front of horrified passengers