Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, a Democratic super donor, said he would head to downtown New York City for the next step in his $20 million advertising campaign to urge the impeachment of Donald J ·
"We will place several large billboards in Times Square calling for impeachment of the president," Steyer said in an interview on Monday . ".
"We take it for granted that this is a huge problem before the American people, and no one supports the idea of the vast majority of Americans.
"The digital billboard released on Monday will be displayed ten minutes an hour on New Year's Eve, according to the need of the political group" impeach "created by Steyer. Steyer, a co-
Founder of Farallon Capital Management, who left San Francisco
S. -based hedge funds spent time and wealth dealing with climate change in 2012, becoming one of Trump's most outspoken rivals. In a campaign-
Steyer, who has been broadcasting style commercial ads on television since last month, has watched the footage, calling Trump "a clear and current danger"S.
To the edge of nuclear war.
"If this is not a reason to impeach and remove a dangerous president, what will our government look like?
Steyer said in the advertisement.
"I am funding this effort to work together to raise our voice and to ask elected officials to take a position on impeachment.
The ad sparked a response from Trump, who attacked Steyer on Twitter.
"Weird and totally crazy Tom Steyer has been fighting my" Make America Great Again "from the beginning and has never won an election!
Trump tweeted last month.
The ad also aired on Fox News's Fox and Friends program, which Trump regularly watched.
Fox News later stopped advertising.
Last week, six Democrats in Congress published an article to impeach Trump.
Steve Cohen, Tennessee, Louis Gutierrez, Illinois, Al Green, Texas, Marcia forge, Ohio, adriano esparat in New York and John Jammet in Kentucky have called for an immediate impeachment hearing against Trump.
But Democratic leaders, including House Minority Party Leader Nancy Pelosi, did not accept the idea of trying to win control of Congress through an impeachment platform.
"At this point, Tom Steyr should light up his money," Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Arens said in a statement . ".
"Even Democrats like Nancy Pelosi think his unfounded advertising campaign is a distraction.
Steyer said the impeachment campaign was a direct democracy and was not part of his broader effort to help the Democratic Party win the 2018 election.
"It seems that elected officials don't think it's time, and don't think it's tactical intelligence," he said . ".
"We don't want to be tactical.
We are not trying to use it for "18 mid" in some way, shape or form ".
Steyer was the biggest individual political donor during the 2016 election.
Through his political action committee, the next generation of the United States, Steyer pledged to spend millions of dollars in support of candidates in 2018.