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With parody song ´Impeachable,´ folk icon Noel Paul Stookey takes jab at Trump

With parody song ´Impeachable,´ folk icon Noel Paul Stookey takes jab at Trump

Noel Paul StookeyStookey, a member of Peter, Paul and Mary, sings it to the tune of ‘Unforgettable.’
by Ray Routhier, staff writer at the Portland Press Herald

Noel Paul Stookey was sitting in his Blue Hill home a few weeks ago, talking about President Trump with his wife and a friend, when he was reminded of an old Nat King Cole tune.

Stookey – who gained fame in the 1960s singing songs about social justice with the trio Peter, Paul and Mary – said they were talking about the “egregious overreaching” by Trump and his top officials in just their first few days in office. Could Trump be impeached, Stookey wondered? First he’d have to be found to have committed offenses that would make him impeachable, Stookey mused. This prompted Stookey’s friend Becky McCall to blurt, “Impeachable, that’s what he is.”

Watch the video of IMPEACHABLE