Clinton denounces GOP lawmaker’s impeachment threat as ‘pathetic’

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has denounced a Republican lawmaker’s threat to impeach her on her first day in office if she is elected president as “pathetic” and “totally ridiculous”.

Clinton made the remarks in an interview with MSNBC on Friday when asked to comment on a statement made by Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama.

Brooks said during a radio interview that "she will be a unique president if she is elected by the public next November because the day she's sworn in is the day that she's subject to impeachment because she has committed high crimes and misdemeanors."

"Isn't that pathetic? It's just laughable. It's so totally ridiculous," Clinton said of the comments by Brooks.

"It, perhaps, is good politics with, you know, the most intense, extreme part of their base. I guess that is, or otherwise why would they be doing it?" she added.

Brooks first brought up the idea of impeachment in an interview with The Hill newspaper earlier this week.

He said she “would be subject to impeachment,” adding that “should the House and Senate so choose, she could be impeached based on offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, that she has in all probability already committed.”

Brooks cited federal law that prohibits “unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material,” referring to the private email server Clinton used while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 election, has struggled to shake off lingering questions about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Although Clinton has apologized for the email practice, the controversy has dented her support among some Democrats and helped bolster independent Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

In 1998, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach her husband, President Bill Clinton, over his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House employee. In 1999, the Senate voted to acquit Clinton and he completed his second term in 2001.

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