Claim: Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "Do you know what's deplorable? Being impeached!" to the Clintons in September 2016.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

Retrieved passages:
title: Basket of deplorables
text: one year after the election, Trump thanked his "Deplorables" for his victory. Others in Trump's campaign responded negatively to the statement. Trump's running mate Mike Pence stated in a Capitol Hill meeting, "For Hillary Clinton to express such disdain for millions of Americans is one more reason that disqualifies her to serve in the highest office." Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, had issued a statement on Twitter, claiming "One day after promising to be aspirational & uplifting, Hillary insults millions of Americans." Meanwhile, Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. posted a parody movie poster of "The Expendables" on Twitter and

title: Basket of deplorables
text: In a rally at Des Moines, Iowa, Trump stated "While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you hardworking American patriots who love your country". During the rest of the election, Trump invited "deplorable Americans" on stage. For example, at a rally in Miami, Florida on September 16, 2016 Trump parodied "Les Misérables" with the title "Les Déplorables" under the song "Do You Hear the People Sing?". Trump also used the label against Clinton in an advertisement, which claimed that Clinton herself is deplorable because she "viciously demoniz[es] hard working people like you". On November 8, 2017,

title: Basket of deplorables
text: 9, Clinton gave a speech and said the following: The following day Clinton expressed regret for saying "half," while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful views and voices." At the second presidential debate in October 2016, after Trump mentioned the speech in a response to James Carter, debate moderator Anderson Cooper asked Clinton "how can you unite a country if you've written off tens of millions of Americans?" Clinton responded to Cooper's question by saying, "my argument is not with his supporters, it's with him and the hateful, divisive campaign he has run." On October 20, 2016, during the

title: Basket of deplorables
text: Basket of deplorables "Basket of deplorables" is a phrase from a 2016 presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising event, which Clinton used to describe half of the supporters of her general election opponent, Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton later said that she "regrets saying half [of Trump's supporters]", and the Trump campaign repeatedly used the phrase against her during and after the 2016 presidential election. Many Trump supporters adopted the "Deplorable" moniker for themselves. After Clinton's loss, some journalists and political analysts questioned whether the speech played a

title: 2016 United States presidential election
text: November 6, he notified Congress that the new emails did not change the FBI's earlier conclusion. Also, on September 9, 2016, Clinton stated: "You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it." Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters. The following day Clinton expressed regret for saying "half", while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful views and voices". Previously on August 25, 2016, Clinton gave a speech criticizing Trump's campaign for using "racist lies" and allowing

title: Maxine Waters
text: giving a euology at Dick Gregory's funeral, she said that she was "cleaning out the White House" and that "when I get through with Donald Trump, he's going to wish he had been impeached." In October 2017, she said the U.S. Congress had enough evidence against Trump to 'be moving on impeachment', in reference to Russian collusion allegations during the 2016 Presidential election, and that Trump "has openly obstructed justice in front of our face." Waters texted an allegation on Twitter regarding the Trump White House, "Trump has made it clear—it is now the White Supremacists' House", linking President Trump

title: Sally Kohn
text: supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries and then Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election. On February 19, 2017, "New York Post" columnist Karol Markowicz wrote, in response to a recent tweet by Kohn, the following: "Last week, cable news personality Sally Kohn tweeted what she called a "straightforward" plan that would eject Donald Trump and install Hillary Clinton into the presidency: "1. Impeach Trump Pence; 2. Constitutional crisis; 3. Call special election; 4. Ryan v Clinton; 5. President Clinton." "Anyone with middle-school knowledge of the presidential chain of command should know that impeaching both Trump and

title: Basket of deplorables
text: 71st Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Clinton joked about the phrase, telling the guests "I just want to put you all in a basket of adorables". Clinton's campaign pointed to a series of polls that showed that some of Trump's supporters held negative views toward Latinos, African Americans, and Muslims. Clinton's campaign used the incident to try to force Trump's campaign members to denounce its extreme supporters. For example, after Mike Pence refused to call David Duke "deplorable," Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine accused Pence of enabling racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters.

title: Basket of deplorables
text: Clinton's speech, some political analysts compared the statement to Mitt Romney's 47% gaffe in 2012. After the election, Diane Hessan, who had been hired by the Clinton campaign to track undecided voters, wrote in "The Boston Globe" that "all hell broke loose" after the "basket of deplorables" comment, which prompted what she saw as the largest shift of undecided voters towards Trump. In an interview with CNN on December 4, 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook said that the statement "definitely could have alienated" her voters. Meanwhile, Courtney Weaver of "Financial Times" believed that Clinton's comment had no effect

title: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign
text: 25, 2016, Clinton gave a speech criticizing Trump's campaign for using "racist lies" and allowing the alt-right to gain prominence. At a fundraiser on September 9, Clinton stated: "You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it." Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters, and some political analysts compared the statement to Mitt Romney's 47% gaffe in 2012. The following day Clinton expressed regret for saying "half", while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful

title: Donald Trump
text: to start the process of impeachment against Trump, who took office in January 2017, have been initiated by Representatives Al Green and Brad Sherman, both Democrats. Other people and groups have asserted that Trump has engaged in impeachable activity during his presidency. Talk of impeachment began before Trump took office. Serious proposals to impeach Trump for obstruction of justice were made in May 2017, after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and allegations surfaced that Trump had asked Comey to drop the investigation against Michael Flynn. A December 2017 resolution of impeachment failed in the House by a 58–364 margin.

title: Efforts to impeach Donald Trump
text: rewriting the request in favor of investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails. In August 2017, following controversial comments by Trump about the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Representative Steve Cohen announced that he would introduce articles of impeachment because Trump had "failed the presidential test of moral leadership." There was a brief debate about impeaching the president before a privileged resolution introduced by Representative Al Green was withdrawn. In late October, progressive activist hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer funded an impeachment campaign that quickly garnered 1.3 million signatures. By mid-November, the campaign had garnered over 1.9 million signatures. As of

title: Nancy Pelosi
text: conference on June 9, 2017, after a reporter asked her about tweets by Trump responding to the testimony of former FBI James Comey before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pelosi said no one at the White House seemed courageous enough to tell Trump that his tweets were beneath the dignity of the presidency and said that she was worried about his fitness. In November, when asked about Democrats beginning the impeachment process against Trump in the event they won a majority of seats in the 2018 elections, Pelosi said it would not be one of their legislative priorities but that the

title: CNN
text: one by "The Daily Caller" (which reversed the ad, and amended the slogan with "unless we are reporting on Trump"), and Stephen Colbert (which closed with the line "Now orange you ready to impeach?"), and was criticized by conservative publishers, Republican politicians, and on social media. On November 6, 2017, Stephenson met with Makan Delrahim, assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, to discuss antitrust and concentration of media ownership concerns surrounding the acquisition, and possible options for satisfying them. Two days later, major media outlets publicly reported that the Justice Department had recommended that

title: Efforts to impeach Donald Trump
text: of Connecticut stated in an interview: "It may well produce another "United States v. Nixon" on a subpoena that went to United States Supreme Court. It may well produce impeachment proceedings, although we're very far from that possibility." Later in May, news of Trump's disclosure of classified information to Russia led to further discussions about the possibility of impeachment, with Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) in particular alluding to the possibility. At around the same time in May, the revelation that the president had asked Comey to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn led still more observers, including Senator Angus King

title: Impeachment investigations of United States federal officials
text: he abused his executive power. Within weeks of taking office, members of Congress had declared that President Trump may have committed impeachable offenses in relation with Executive Order 13769. On May 17, 2017, Rep. Al Green (D) of Texas called for impeachment of President Trump on the House floor. Later, just under six months into Trump's presidency, Rep. Green and Rep. Brad Sherman introduced H. Res. 438, exhibiting one article of impeachment. Representative Steve Cohen, one of six Democrats introducing five articles of impeachment, said on November 15, 2017, "[H]is train of injuries to our Constitution must be brought to

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: a travel ban (which Trump signed in March 2017) in court, rather than an initial version of the ban that Trump has signed in January 2017 (and was later declared unconstitutional by federal courts). In January 2018, Trump tweeted that his Justice Department is part of the American "deep state". In March 2018, Trump tweeted that "there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State" Departments. Previously in December 2017, Trump tweeted that the FBI's "reputation" was at its the worst ever after years under James Comey. In June 2017, Trump tweeted

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: them, stating, "If you are telling me they’re horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologise if you’d like me to do that." In a succession of tweets on March 4, 2017, President Trump stated he had "just found out" that former President Obama had wiretapped the phones in his offices at Trump Tower during the last months of the 2016 election. The tweets resulted in a week of media attention given to the allegations, despite scarce evidence. Fake news websites did also take up the allegations, and one even claimed that a warrant for Barack Obama's arrest had

title: Basket of deplorables
text: 2016, Clinton reportedly explained her divide and conquer approach to courting Republican voters by putting Trump supporters into two "baskets": everyday Republicans whom she would target, and the alt-right crowd. During a September 8, 2016 interview on Israel's Channel 2, Clinton said: "You can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets. There are what I would call the deplorables—you know, the racists and the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he's going to restore an America that no longer exists." At an LGBT campaign fundraising event in New York City on September

title: Maxine Waters
text: liar and someone who did not need to be President" and "the most deplorable person I've ever met in my life". In a 2017 appearance on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes", Waters said President Donald Trump's advisors who have ties to Russia or have oil and gas interests there are "a bunch of scumbags". Waters began to call for the impeachment of Trump shortly after he took office. In February 2017, Waters said that Trump was "leading himself" to possible impeachment because of his conflicts of interests and that he was creating "chaos and division". In September 2017, while