That didn’t take long. Two weeks into the Trump presidency and Democrats are already planning to impeach him again. Representative Al Green, from Texas, took to the House floor in response to the president’s latest foray into foreign policy. Speaking on the House floor, Green declared his intention to introduce articles of impeachment, framing Trump’s recent comments on Gaza as not only reckless but morally abhorrent.
The Hill writes that Green thinks talking about the taking over of Gaza is an impeachable offense.
“The movement to impeach the president has begun,” Green said on the House floor. “I rise to announce that I will bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for dastardly deeps proposed and dastardly deeds done.”
Democrats, like Green, slammed the president for the remarks, calling the takeover idea “ethnic cleansing” and likened it to throwing a match on an already volatile situation.
“Ethnic cleansing is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, when he has the ability to perfect what he says, ethnic cleansing in Gaza is no joke, and the Prime Minister of Israel should be ashamed knowing the history of his people,” Green said.
Green denounced Trump’s remarks and said he wanted to remind people that Martin Luther King Jr. was correct when he said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America,” he said.
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Trump’s remarks—which came up during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—suggested that the United States should assume control of Gaza, overseeing its reconstruction in the wake of the recent Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
This latest impeachment push is hardly Green’s first. In 2017, he led a quixotic effort to remove Trump from office—an endeavor that met predictable defeat.
What comes next remains uncertain. Green’s resolution may well die on the vine, a symbolic gesture drowned out by more pressing legislative battles.
