Trump Calls for Congressmen Who Pushed for Impeachment to Be Removed

Trump Fires Back on Impeachment Challenges: Democrats in Congress have been talking more and more this week about impeachment, with Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) leading the charge.

Green declared, first in February and later in early April, that he planned to pursue impeachment of the president, while Thanedar, this week, went further, introducing detailed articles of impeachment accusing Trump of a long list of crimes.

Even Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) expressed some support for impeaching Trump, while acknowledging that doing so would be practically impossible for as long as the Republicans control Congress.

Indeed, impeachment is much more theoretical than anything that has much chance of happening anytime soon.

But that doesn’t mean Trump isn’t going to rant about the impeachment plan.

The Trump “Impeachment Thing” Again

In a late-night rant on Truth Social on Thursday night, the president railed against the members of Congress who are talking impeachment again, even suggesting that the House leadership kick them out of Congress.

“They have already got two “no name,” little respected Congressmen, total Whackjobs both, throwing the ‘Impeachment’ of DONALD J. TRUMP around, for about the 20th time, even though they have no idea for what I would be Impeached,” the president said, presumably of Green and Thaneedar, although he did not use their names.

“These Congressmen stated that, they didn’t know why they would Impeach me but, ‘We just want to do it,’” Trump added.

Thenedar, at least, has some idea for which he wants Trump impeached, everything from “Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power” to “Usurpation of Appropriations Power” to “Violation of First Amendment Rights” to “Tyrannical Overreach,” with specific cases mentioned throughout.

Expel Them?

Trump also suggested that the Congressmen pushing for impeachment should perhaps be expelled from Congress.

“The Republicans should start to think about expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes that they have committed, especially around Election time(s).”

It’s not clear why this would happen, since introducing an impeachment resolution is not a crime or illegal. If it were, such a law would likely have ensnared Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who introduced several resolutions to impeach Joe Biden, including one on his first day in office.

Greene also, at one point, introduced a measure that would have “expunged” Trump’s two impeachments, although neither that nor the impeachment resolutions ever gained much traction.

Trouble in Impeachment Land

That isn’t to say, though, that things are currently great with the impeachment effort. Per Politico, Thanedar’s resolution has lost four co-sponsors, following a miscommunication among staffers.

The spokesperson for Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) said the Congressman had withdrawn as a cosponsor because “he was made aware it was not cleared by Democratic leadership and not fully vetted legally — and he preferred to err on the side of caution.”

Indeed, the Democratic leadership in the House does not appear on board with the effort, echoing Trump’s first impeachment, when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was not on board at first. Although even if they were, it wouldn’t matter, with the GOP still in control of the House.

The Politico story also said that Green, who had vowed in early April to introduce an impeachment resolution within 30 days, had agreed to join Thanedar’s effort as a new co-sponsor.

Meanwhile, according to Axios, the Thanedar resolution has “set off an internal furor” among Democrats in the House. The report also included the revelation that the Michigan Congressman “signed at least one colleague on as a co-sponsor based on a vague one-on-one conversation without notifying their staff.”

It was also noted that Thanedar had made the impeachment move after the announcement was made of one primary challenger for his seat, and concurrent with the launch of a second one.

“There is a long, long, long way to go before the concept of impeachment is on the table,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) told Axios.

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