washington us president donald trump warned on thursday that markets would crash and everyone would be very poor if he is impeached even as americans weighed the conviction of two of his closest former aides one of whom directly implicated him in campaign finance violation resulting from paying off a porn workertrump and his aides maintained in the hours after the legal setbacks that the verdicts did not concern the president and he had done nothing wrong even though he admitted paying off a porn worker who claimed to have sex with him while his former personal lawyer michael cohen told the court that he routed payment from the trump organization to her to buy her silence and influence the election effectively breaking campaign finance laws at trumps direction the president made the fine distinction that the money came from his personal funds suggesting that should absolve him of criminal conductthe legal setback is evidently keeping trump awake at night no collusion rigged witch hunt he tweeted in all caps at 1 am but as his defense collapsed under the weight of contradictory claims and statements he and his aides have made over several months he was before 6 am for a predawn interview with fox news his goto channel for comfort that faithfully airs his version of truth arguing that any move to impeach him would be disastrous for the economyif i ever got impeached i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor because without this thinking deregulation tax cuts etc you would see numbers that you wouldnt believe in reverse trump warned as he bragged about the uptick in the economy that from all accounts has extended now into the largest bull run in historya bull run is traditionally considered to start once stocks rise more than 20 per cent from their low similarly a bear market low is considered to start when stocks fall 20 percent from their high and the current bull run of 3453 days ticked over the previous record from october 1990 to march 2000 on thursdaythat is the 1 argument trump has been making to circumvent political fallout from the legal setbacks including the possibility that democrats could begin impeachment proceedings particularly if they recapture congress in the november midterm poll from republicans who currently control both the house and the senateregardless of the legal jeopardy he is in special counsel robert muellers russia probe continues and cohens lawyer lanny davis has said his client has information on the subject that would interest the fbi investigation the us president appears intent on taking the battle to the people in november making it some sort of referendum on his conduct and his performance despite the tawdry spectacle and the pervasive stink of corruption around his administration trump said he gave his presidency an a plus and projected had hillary and the democrats gotten in had she been president you would have had negative growth we