Trump Shows He Doesn’t Know How Impeachment Works
Trump thinks that the courts can block impeachment and that high crimes and misdemeanors are the same as criminal offenses.
Trump thinks that the courts can block impeachment and that high crimes and misdemeanors are the same as criminal offenses.
Speaker Pelosi said that she wants an ironclad case for Trump impeachment that even Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans can’t deny.
Amash’s response to Trump supporters and even his GOP colleagues essentially boiled down to this: Call me when you actually read the Mueller report.
The audience at Rep. Justin Amash’s first town hall after coming out in support of Trump impeachment thanked him and gave him a standing ovation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threatened Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if she pursues impeachment against Donald Trump.
Having to hit the campaign trail in 2020 as an impeached president would drive Donald Trump even more mad than he already is.
Nancy Pelosi was correct to call for an intervention – but it is up to her and other Democrats in the House of Representatives to lead it.
Impeachment looks like the best tool Dems have left – not only to fight the lawless Trump but to send a message to future presidents.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said that the Mueller report has already given the House enough evidence to impeach Donald Trump without more investigation.
Trump isn’t letting up as impeachment paranoia has gripped him and he is melting down live across all platforms.
Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan said a few other Republicans have privately expressed sympathy to his view that President Trump should be impeached.
Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), a swing district House Democrat, said that the calls to her office have shifted toward supporting impeaching Trump. Swing Districts Are Shifting On Impeachment Rep. Hill said on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes: It’s really tough. I have been talking with my staff about this. They are the ones getting…
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday President Donald Trump was engaged in obstruction of justice and a cover-up which could be an impeachable offense.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting of House Democrats on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said: “No one is above the law, including the president of the United States. And we believe that the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up.”
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said that 80%-90% of Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee support launching impeachment proceedings against Trump.
In his remarks at the House Judiciary Committee hearing that Don McGahn blew off, Chairman Jerry Nadler sent strong signals that impeachment is on the horizon.
Calls are growing among Democrats for the House to open an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
Trump isn’t bailing himself out of trouble by blocking Don McGahn’s testimony. He’s strengthening the case for impeachment.
The first Republican in the U.S. Congress to say openly that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses drew a 2020 election challenge on Monday from within his own party, the Detroit Free Press reported.
On Monday, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) refused to back down and debunked Trump’s defense point by point while laying out the case for impeachment.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that many Republicans agree with Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) that Trump would be indicted if he wasn’t president.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said that the House Judiciary Committee is moving quickly toward opening an impeachment investigation into Trump.
Trump went off on a rant against Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) that only served to elevate Amash and the case for impeachment.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) refuses to support impeaching Trump because he thinks there isn’t enough evidence, and “impeachment isn’t the right way to go.”
Trump melted down on Sunday morning with lie-filled tweets after Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) said he has committed impeachable offenses.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) who represents a very conservative district said that Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the House can use impeachment as an investigative tool to break Trump’s obstruction of House investigations.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the House should be holding the debate on impeaching Trump, even if they don’t vote on it yet.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that the House is on the road to impeachment and dismantling Trump’s wall of obstruction.
No matter what Democrats do in response to the Mueller report and the shameless Trump obstruction, Republicans are going to accuse them of overreaching
Attorney General Barr is refusing to turn over any Mueller documents and evidence to House Democrats unless they impeach Trump.
Impeachment is on Trump’s mind as he is falsely claiming that Democrats can’t win an election fairly, so they will impeach him.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) expressed the worry that if the House doesn’t impeach Trump before the 2020 election, he will win reelection.
House Intel and Judiciary Committee member, and Democratic presidential candidate, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) called for the impeachment of Attorney General William Barr.
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) said that Congress needs to hear Trump testify under oath about obstruction of justice.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that a majority of Americans don’t support impeachment, but other parts of the poll show a nation that wants to vote Trump out.
Trump accused the former White House counsel Don McGahn of lying to investigators as he tried to cover his tracks on obstruction of justice.
Professor Laurence Tribe said that the impeachment process is already under way against Donald Trump.
The pre-Easter weekend news dump of the Mueller report failed. We all heard AG Barr’s pre-emptive strike – a highly unusual presser where he actually trotted out the idea that being frustrated is a defense when one is suspected of conspiring with a hostile foreign power to cheat his way to victory in an election….
House Democrats are meeting at 5 PM to discuss impeaching Trump and the path going forward.
Sharyl Attkisson, opinion contributor and host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson on stations operated by the conservative propaganda outlet Sinclair Broadcast Group, echoed the cries of the Right and Donald Trump as she tried desperately to blame Obama for Trump taking help from the Russians to “win†an election. You see, this is really…
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) said that the easiest way to impeach Trump is to vote him out of office next year.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said impeachment is possible as the House will investigate Trump for obstruction of justice.
A top Democratic lawmaker said on Saturday that the handling of the Mueller report by attorney general William Barr makes impeachment more likely.
When I started writing this piece, it was going to be in defense of Nancy Pelosi’s argument against a premature rush to impeachment. Her reasoning still stands. I was going to point to the fact that she wants a real investigation (vs. what the Republicans did ) and bi-partisan support – since the Republicans do…
Andrew McCabe said on Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told him he knew of two Cabinet members who might support invoking the 25th Amendment to oust President Donald Trump but he did not believe Rosenstein was actively seeking support for such a bold move.
In 15 months, Tom Steyer’s Need To Impeach campaign has grown to over 7 million Americans demanding the impeachment of Donald Trump.
John Dean said that the Trump felonies aren’t going to go away and that House Democrats will have no choice but to start impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Democrats have a clear message for party leaders who will take control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll: Protect their healthcare and impeach President Donald Trump.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell discussed how Trump committed an impeachable felony by refusing to let the FBI move out of a building that is across the street from his Washington DC hotel.
We don’t need Robert Mueller’s findings to be published to know that Donald Trump has committed multiple impeachable offenses.
According to reports from inside the White House, even Donald Trump knows that impeachment is coming soon after the election.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, warned Trump that if he pardons Manafort, the president will be obstructing justice.
Forget the crimes and corruption, Donald Trump said that he couldn’t be impeached because he is doing a great job.
If the GOP wants to be the party that refuses to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, that’s their decision. But Democrats can and must do better.
Since the presidency is protecting Trump from facing an indictment, the first step in holding him accountable for his crimes is impeachment.
The House Freedom Caucus thought that they were helping Trump by trying to impeach Rod Rosenstein, instead, they made it easier for Trump to be impeached.
A roadmap to impeachment handed down by Robert Mueller may have meant something in the 1970s when the Republican Party wasn’t living inside a right-wing bubble of Fox News conspiracies.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made the case that America can’t wait for the next president. Donald Trump must be impeached now.
President Donald Trump, under pressure from special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, probably has the power to pardon himself but does not plan to do so, his attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday.
Rudy Giuliani had quite the unhinged interview with Dana Bash several days ago. As PoliticusUSA Editor-In-Chief, and my colleauge Jason Easley described that interview in his piece titled Rudy Giuliani Screws Up And Admits Mueller Wants To Interview Trump On Obstruction of Justice: “Thanks to the Rudy Giuliani, the world’s worst defense lawyer, it is…
On MSNBC, Tom Steyer said that his movement isn’t about impeachment, but educating the American on the truth about Donald Trump and the danger that he represents to the country. Video: Steyer told Chuck Todd on MTP Daily, “We’re trying to tell a truth that we believe is the most important truth in American politics…