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May 15: Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz called reports that President Trump revealed highly classified
information to Russian officials “the most serious charge ever made against a
sitting president.” ... Trump’s “code-word information” disclosure risks
damaging the relationship with the intelligence source, which has access to
ISIS's inner workings.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333541-dershowitz-this-is-the-most-serious-charge-ever-made-against-a
May 15: Nearly half of U.S.
voters support Trump impeachment as President's approval numbers dip further,
poll shows ... http://nydn.us/2qrNdea
May 16: If President Trump truly did
ask James Comey to end the investigation into national security adviser Michael
Flynn -- as the former FBI director is
said to have claimed in a memo -- then the United States has reached a rare
tipping point, David Gergen
said Tuesday night. "After watching the Clinton impeachment I thought I'd never
see another one, but I think we're in impeachment territory now for the first
time ..."
May 19:
Democratic establishment eases up on impeachment talk
Less than 24 hours after news broke that President
Donald Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop
investigating former national security adviser Mike Flynn, Democratic Rep. Al
Green gave an impassioned speech on the House Floor supporting impeaching the
President.
http://merlefm.com/democratic-establishment-eases-up-on-impeachment-talk/
May 22: Will Donald Trump Be Impeached?
After a cacophonous two weeks of political news, a new sound has begun to emerge
from Washington: the word “impeachment.” Following the
news that President Trump may have tried to bully FBI director James Comey
out of investigating Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia, Sen. Angus King of Maine,
an independent,
told CNN that recent allegations, if true, are already making impeachment
hearings more likely.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/chance-donald-trump-impeached/
June 7: Rep.
Al Green (D-Texas) has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump and is
reportedly readying the articles of impeachment that mark the first official
step of any congressional bid to remove a sitting president.
Green’s criticisms focus on Trump’s controversial firing of former FBI Director
James Comey last month amid the bureau’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016
presidential race.
June 9: A former GOP representative argued
Friday that if President Donald Trump were a Democrat, there would be more
backlash from Republicans over the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
“If Hillary Clinton had won and Comey had re-opened an investigation into her
email server and she didn’t like the way it was going and she fired him, I’m
quite certain my party would be rightly howling,” Bob Inglis, a former South
Carolina representative, told CNN’s Erin Burnett Friday on “OutFront.” “When the
shoe’s on this foot, it’s like, ‘Oh, well, he’s new at it.'”
https://gantdaily.com/2017/06/09/former-congressman-calls-out-fellow-republicans-for-defending-trump/
July 17: Trump Rating Holds Steady Despite
Campaign’s 2016 Russia Meeting ... 4-in-10 support
impeachment, higher than for Nixon at start of Watergate
The president's job rating currently stands at a net negative 39% approve and
52% disapprove. This is nearly identical to his 39%-53% rating in May. About
one-third (32%) of the public says Pres. Trump's agenda so far has focused a lot
on issues that are important to average Americans, another 31% say he has
focused a little on these issues and 35% say he has not focused at all on issues
important to average Americans. These results are largely unchanged from two
months ago.
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_NJ_071717/
October 16: Top White House aides,
lawmakers, donors and political consultants are privately asking whether
President Donald Trump realizes that losing the House next year could put his
presidency in peril ... [a] GOP congressional aide predicted the Democrats would
make Trump's life a "living hell."
December 1: Cities Across the U.S. Join
Movement to Impeach President Trump for Violating the Constitution ...
In November, a half-dozen Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against
Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses. This comes as
a petition for impeachment launched in October by Democratic donor Tom Steyer
now has more than 3 million supporters. At least 17 communities around the
country are now on record calling for impeachment proceedings against Trump. On
Tuesday, the town of Weston, Massachusetts, joined the list when residents
supported a citizen petition asking the House to assess whether Trump is
violating the Constitution.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/1/cities_across_the_us_join_movement
January 28: The
first
article of impeachment against Richard Nixon argued that he had “prevented,
obstructed and impeded the administration of justice.” One of the two
impeachment articles that the House passed against Bill Clinton used
that identical phrase. In both cases, the article then laid out the evidence
with a numbered list. Nixon’s version had nine items. Clinton’s had seven. Each
list was meant to show that the president had intentionally tried to subvert a
federal investigation.
... The evidence is now quite strong that Donald Trump committed obstruction of
justice. Many legal scholars believe a sitting president cannot be charged with
a crime. So the proper remedy for a president credibly accused of obstructing
justice is impeachment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/impeachment-donald-trump.html
February 1: Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC) are proving central to efforts to impeach
President Trump.
“I don’t know if the people around the country understand that he has launched …
an assault against African-American people starting with his refusal to accept
the first African-American president, by continuing to declare that he was from
Kenya,” Cleaver [Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)] said. “No other president in
history has had to face that kind of criticism.
May 22: ... Trump has chalked up two more
reasons to impeach him (or some kind of reckoning): abusing his office by
ordering an investigation of the FBI’s investigation into whether his 2016
campaign conspired with Russia, and attempting to punish a specific individual
by damaging that person’s business.
https://newrepublic.com/article/148499/number-trumps-impeachable-offenses-keeps-growing
June 4: Trump and Giuliani Accidentally Make
the Case for Impeachment
October 18: Former Vice President Joe Biden
on Thursday said he hopes Democrats don't try to impeach President Donald Trump
if they retake the House of Representatives following next month's midterm
elections.
"I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now,"
Biden, one of the top Democrats believed to be weighing a 2020 challenge of
Trump, said during an interview on "CBS This Morning."
November 29:
Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work
Generally, federal employees have been free to express opinions about
policies and legislative activity at work as long as they do not advocate voting
for or against particular candidates in partisan elections. But in a guidance
document distributed on Wednesday, the independent agency that enforces the
Hatch Act, a law that bars federal employees from taking part in partisan
political campaigns at work or in an official capacity, warned that making or
displaying statements at work about impeaching or resisting Mr. Trump is likely
to amount to illegal political activity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/federal-employees-hatch-act-trump-impeachment.html
Michigan GOP Rep.
Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed
"impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally
misleading the public.
May 20:
Republicans Are Denouncing Justin Amash’s Call to
Impeach Trump. He’s Not Backing Down.
The Michigan congressman already faces a new primary challenger.
Since he made the bold statement, the president has already labelled Amash a
“loser,” and the congressman’s judgement has been dismissed by top Republicans
eager to undercut the importance of his announcement.
“This is exactly what he wants, he wants to have attention,” House Minority
Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy told Fox News. He also claimed that Amash’s
libertarian-leaning, conservative voting
record was more
aligned with Nancy Pelosi’s agenda than that of the Republican party.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/justin-amash-impeach-trump/
September 17:
Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for
first time
