Democrat Al Green forces vote on Trump impeachment

Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, will force the House to vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump this afternoon.

Green announced the move yesterday and told C-SPAN during an appearance this morning on Washington Journal: ‘This president is unfit. He has committed high misdemeanors. Andrew Johnson was impeached for less, and articles of impeachment will be brought against him today.’

The lower chamber is set to take up the measure just after 1 pm, at the zenith of Trump’s legacy-defining Israel speech, during which he will announce the eventual relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, will force the House to vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump this afternoon. Green announced the move yesterday on the House floor

Lawmakers will easily thwart the effort with a motion to table. But they will be on the record on the topic, nonetheless.

At least five House Democrats are expected to vote to proceed, including Green, who first endorsed impeachment after Trump’s commentary on the Charlottesville race riot.

How many other Democrats will join the group of rebels is unknown. Impeachment is something that House Democratic leadership has already rejected.

Green said Tuesday from the House floor that he would bring the articles of impeachment against Trump this afternoon.

He’s using a ‘privileged’ motion to get around Republicans’ iron-fisted control of the docket.

A ‘dear colleague’ letter that Green also distributed accused Trump of inciting ‘hatred and hostility’ and using his position to further attitudes that have ‘sown discord within American society.’

Green argues in the release that Trump need not have committed any actual crimes to be impeached for high misdemeanors. 

Johnson was impeached solely for bringing ‘contempt, ridicule and disgrace’ to the office and verbal harassment that was generally determined to be unbecoming of the nation’s highest representative.

Trump, Green said Wednesday on C-SPAN, has called neo-Nazis protesting in Charlottesville ‘very fine people,’ and he called a black Democratic member ‘wacky.’ He also said that professional football players who kneel during the national anthem are SOBs.

‘The b is a dog. He called the mothers of these professional athletes. dogs. That’s unacceptable,’ Green said.

Trump’s retweets last week of an anti-Mulism fringe group that’s based in Britain was also ‘unacceptable,’ Green said. 

‘He will tolerate the KKK to a greater extent than he will Islam. That’s all unacceptable.’

Green assessed that he would now be called ‘uncivil’ for assaulting Trump in this manner, which he said is hypocritical. 

‘My friends, like it or not, we have we have elected a bigot as president,’ he said.

In his letter, Green said of Trump: ‘Although he may not be the first bigot in the White House, he is the first who routinely uses Twitter and other public statements to feed an alt-right hate machine, antithetical to the constitutionally protected interests of many minorities, women, Muslims, and the LGBTQ community.’

'This president is unfit. He has committed high misdemeanors,' Green said Wednesday of Trump

‘This president is unfit. He has committed high misdemeanors,’ Green said Wednesday of Trump

Green said he does not want to impeach the president, but he believes it is the correct action to take.

‘History will be my final judge, and vindication my eternal reward,’ he said. 

Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the House, told CNN last month, ‘It’s not someplace that I think we should go.

‘I don’t want to dampen anybody’s enthusiasm for what they believe, because a lot of people in our country think that the president should be impeached,’ she said. ‘But that… isn’t what our election is about.’

Pelosi encouraged her caucus to focus on ‘meeting the needs of the American people, stopping this tax bill right now, which is an insult to the intelligence of the American people, an assault on their financial security.

‘That’s what we should be talking about,’ she said. 



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