58 House Dems vote to impeach President Donald Trump
- mountroyaltimes
- Dec 6, 2017
- 3 min read
According to our sources, 58 House Democrats voted in favor of Rep. Al-Green (Democrat, Texas)'s two articles of impeachment against currently-seated US President Donald Trump. Although it was a sweep, with 238 Republican 'No' votes and another 126 Democrat 'No' votes; it's focus has been identified.
Unlike what most of you would expect, the articles of impeachment simply do not include the two main threats of impeachment against the sitting President - Russian collusion or obstruction of justice.
Recently, Democrats in the US House of Reps had introduced five articles to impeach Trump but decided not to go forward with the articles seeing as they knew it wouldn't get anywhere at the time. Those articles did in fact include collusion, contact with a foreign government in form of conspiracy against the US, and obstruction of justice.
However with recent revelations surrounding Mike Flynn's guilty plea, George Papadopolous' guilty plea, a potential admission to obstruction of justice by Donald Trump via Twitter, and new developments surrounding high-tier Trump campaign officials cooperating and coordinating contacts with Russian government officials.
Recently, Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI about contacting Russian officials and has since revealed that Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, ordered Flynn to contact the Russian governmental figures. He has also lead the sitting President to admit on Twitter that he knew of Flynn's criminal act since last January before he fired then-FBI director James Comey - formally admitting to obstruction of justice.
The articles of impeachment (2) introduced by Rep. Al-Green (D-Texas) were against Trump's responses to situations revolving around racial controversies including Trump's response to the Charlottesville terror attack that killed 1 when a neo-Nazi sympathizer and White Supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of protesters.
Article I(1): accuses sitting President Donald Trump of 'associating the presidency with neo-Nazis, white nationalism and hate'. This article is the one that, in particular, targeted Trump's response to Charlottesville's terror attack.
Article II(2): accuses sitting President Donald Trump of 'inciting hate and hostility' around the topic of his response to situations revolving around the transgender military ban attempt, the Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria response and his attack on Frederica Wilson (D-Florida).
It's almost obvious by now that more articles of impeachment might be in the works. For a success in the House of Representatives for impeachment of Donald Trump, the articles should probably include obstruction of justice or Russian meddling. Although, Russian-related articles would likely fail.
In the case of Bill Clinton, he had been formally impeached from the US House but remained in power. For a sitting US President to be removed from power, he must be removed by the Senate with a successful vote being 2/3 (two-thirds) of the seated members of the Senate.
Following Trump's admission of obstruction of justice, whether or not he defends himself and if the Republican Party backs him, the House of Representatives is unlikely to stand by their party if they can clearly see something else. If they did so, they wouldn't have been elected. This is what makes the House pretty 'easy' to use for impeachment purposes. Considering this would be a federal crime against Trump punishable to up to five years in prison, they'd likely act upon it.
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