Texas Democrat demands that the House vote on Trump impeachment before Christmas
Texas Democrat Al Green demands that the House vote on Trump impeachment before Christmas: “I now announce that before Christmas, there will be a vote on the chief inciter of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism and ethnocentrism.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t believe impeaching Trump should be Democrats’ priority if they are able to win back control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections.
Maxine Waters said she was going to say impeach Trump every day.
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Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, said he hopes to force a House vote to impeach President Trump before Christmas.
Green introduced articles of impeachment against Trump last month, and said the president has become the “chief inciter of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism, ethnocentrism.”
But the Texas Democrat said he wanted to wait until Christmas to vote on Trump’s impeachment because he believes “there is a need for the public to weigh in.”
“The momentum is building, Mr. Speaker. The momentum is building. More people favor impeachment than not. Momentum is building,” he said during a speech on the House floor.
“People should weigh in. They should let others know how they feel about impeachment. They should let others know how they feel about the chief inciter of all of these ugly actions by way of persons responding to the chief inciter.”
Green has been talking about impeachment—which is highly unlikely to get anywhere in Congress for a number of reasons—for months.
He spoke in Washington as Democrats celebrated having swept to victory in Tuesday votes in Virginia, New Jersey and beyond.
The Texas legislator postponed his push to impeach, or to charge the president formally with wrongdoing that could lead to his removal, in early October while the country mourned following the mass killing of concertgoers in Las Vegas. In the aftermath of that violence, Green said the nation needed time to heal.
Last month, Green’s articles of impeachment reached the House floor.
This time, Green said some time still must pass before a floor vote, “because there still is a need for the public to weigh in.”
Still, he insisted, “the momentum is building; more people favor impeachment than not.”
As Green and his colleagues discuss impeachment, billionaire progressive activist Tom Steyer continues to air straight-to-camera ads in which he calls Trump a dangerous leader and urges Americans to sign a pro-impeachment petition. As of this week, about 1.7 million had done so.
While the general concept of impeachment may have some currency, including among the celebrity class, critics say billionaire Steyer’s eight-digit campaign is an expensive trip to nowhere or a play to raise his profile before potentially seeking office himself.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California even said this week that if the Democrats win back her chamber in the 2018 midterms, impeachment would not be “someplace that I think we should go.”
Maxine Waters said she was going to say impeach Trump every day.