Congressman calls for Trumps immediate impeachment
Regardless of how much evidence ultimately turns up of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) believes Trump has already done enough to warrant impeachment.
In an interview with ThinkProgress, Green said that the combination of Trump firing FBI Director Jim Comey while his campaign is under FBI investigation for possible collusion with Russia, the president subsequently admitting that he did so in part because of his frustrations over the Russia investigation, and Trump later issuing a thinly veiled threat to Comey is more than sufficient to begin impeachment proceedings.
“The president is not only intimidating the former FBI director, but any other person that might become FBI director and persons who are working on this case,” Green said. “He is demonstrating that he has the power to dismiss people summarily, with impunity, unless he’s impeached.”
Green said he thinks impeachment is necessary in order to demonstrate that “nobody is above the law in this country.” He argues Trump’s effort to obstruct the Russia investigation is an impeachable offense regardless of what evidence the probe ultimately does or does not uncover.
https://thinkprogress.org/al-green-calls-for-trump-impeachment-obstruction-of-justice-498b7d3ae973
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