It was meant to be a simple question designed to hype up the MAGA crowd about the stakes of the midterm elections.
“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” asked Trump ally Matt Schlapp on the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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The audience, clearly not understanding the question, began cheering loudly.
“No. That was the wrong answer,” Schlapp replied.
He tried again: “How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?”
More cheers ensued as Trump’s die-hard fans struggled to realize Schlapp was asking about the prospect of their favorite president being investigated by Democrats if Republicans lost control of Congress in November.