‘I Will Bring Articles of Impeachment’: Barely More Than 2 Weeks In, Already Trump Faces Attempt to Remove Him
Democrat’s move not likely to go anywhere in Republican Congress
That didn’t take long.
Barely more than two weeks into his second term as president — and in the midst of mass deportations, new tariffs, attacks on the rights of transgender Americans and more chaos — Donald Trump faces an attempt to impeach him.
Rep Al Green (D-Texas) announced plans to file articles of impeachment Wednesday in a speech on the House floor.
Trump has been taking a variety of disruptive — and often likely illegal — actions in the short time since he was sworn in as president for a second four-year term on January 20.
He was impeached twice during his first presidency, although neither time was convicted by the Senate. Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice.
Although very impassioned, Green was vague about the specifics which would form the basis of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” that he would cite in his articles of impeachment.
“To whom it may concern: Ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world. When he has the ability to perfect what he says. Ethnic cleansing in Gaza is no joke, and the prime minister of Israel should be ashamed, knowing the history of his people, to stand there and allow such things to be said. Ethnic cleansing has been a crime against humanity,” he said. “And I stand here today in the well to denounce what it was said, to denounce what the president said, to denounce the complicity of the prime Minister of Israel, and to remind people that Dr. Martin Luther] King was right. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, and injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America.
“I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done,” Green added. “I also rise to say that the impeachment movement is going to be a grass up movement, not a top down. The people have got to move forward. The people have to demand it, and when the people demand it, it will be done. I did it before. I laid the foundation for impeachment, and it was done.
“Nobody knows more about it than I, and I know that it’s time for us to lay the foundation again. On some issues, it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. On this issue, I stand alone, but I stand for justice.”
Following Green’s remarks, the Republican presiding officer admonished Green “to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president.”
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