Trump Impeachment Process Set to Begin

[DonViejo]

TRUMP IMPEACHMENT PROCESS SET TO BEGIN AS DEMOCRAT AL GREEN FILES ARTICLES

BY MICHELE GORMAN ON 6/7/17 AT 12:00 PM

Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas is expected to submit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Wednesday in the first legislative step for any congressional bid to force a sitting president from office.

“Obstruction of justice by the president is the problem,” Green said Tuesday. “Impeachment by Congress is the solution.”

Green first officially called for Trump’s impeachment during a fiery speech on the House floor last month. He contends that the president deserves to be removed for allegedly engaging in obstruction of justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey during the agency’s investigation into Russia’s possible meddling in the 2016 election. His appeal came amid revelations of a Comey memo that claimed Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

“This is not about the president and firing someone else. It’s about him firing the FBI director,” Green told NBC News after his speech. Since that congressional address, Green has said he has received racially charged death threats.

His official announcement is set to come a day before Comey himself will testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Russia investigation and his interactions with Trump over the last few months. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared Wednesday before the same panel.

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[louis-t]

1. I believe he will step down rather than face impeachment.

He will blame: his staff, Democrats, Clinton, Obama, his kids, the man in the moon, homeless people, the emerald ash borer......

[HipChick]

2. It's the...

Aliens..........


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[L. Coyote]

12. and those pesky radical Muslims, Mexicans, and immigrant.

[Txbluedog]

3. Impeach a President that is more pure than the driven snow?

Nevah!!! Ryan will probably try to expel Green from the House before he can file the motion

[Softail1]

4. c'mon...let's get real

I'll celebrate when any impeachment motions get through a REPUBLICAN controlled house...until then, these things are meaningless....keep the cork in the Champagne for now...

[Madam45for2923]

5. IT ONLY TAKES ONE!

I am not yelling! I am soprano singing with the capacity of all of my 1million lungs!

[beachbum bob]

6. a democrat can't start anything in the House....its all just blah blah blah at this point

[DonViejo]

7. Any rep may introduce legislation...

getting the majority to deal with it will be the issue.

[beachbum bob]

8. everything must go thru the Speakers office so nothing a democrat introduces will see

daylight

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Nonetheless, the gesture MUST be made.

Otherwise, we look like losers.

This is what the Republicans do. They keep banging away, over and over, even when they know it won't go anywhere. Their tenacity is legendary.

We need to be tenacious too, and it begins with this step.

[DonViejo]

10. thank you for agreeing with me but....

the Speaker can put it in a folder and then wait to see what happens via the investigations (Senate, House and Mueller's).

[beachbum bob]

11. to me, any talk of impeachment only provides fodder for base conservatives to rally

around trump, make 2018 elections about holding th House for trump and to me its a grave tactic and strategic error to have such discussions....force the republicans into a corner with a 29% approval president with criminal activity all around him and his administration....force them to proceed with impeachment inquiries and make 2018 about fighting corruption, not impeachment