\u201cThere\u2019s a good likelihood there will be articles of impeachment.\u201d<\/em> Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) swore on CSPAN<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery member of the House is accorded the opportunity to bring up impeachment…I am not sure that there will be members who are going to wait for someone else if that someone else, doesn\u2019t matter who it is, is declining to do it. We can all do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Article Two of the United States Constitution states in Section 4 that the President can be removed from office \u201con Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”<\/em><\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n If White House Special Counsel Robert Mueller found any evidence that Trump obstructed justice or accepted foreign payments, there is a possibility that impeachment proceedings could start. Likewise, Democrats say that Trump\u2019s order this week to have the Justice Department investigate the FBI\u2019s alleged surveillance of his campaign could constitute an abuse of office and lead to his removal.<\/p>\n Green, however, has called for Trump\u2019s impeachment no less than nine times, and often for far less serious offenses. His fellow Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (California) has demanded impeachment dozens of times, for some equally ludicrous \u2018crimes.\u2019<\/p>\n While Democrats like Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Rep. John Yarmuth (Kentucky), as well as liberal hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, have all demanded impeachment at some point, Green and Waters have been the most prolific.<\/p>\n For saying NFL players should stand<\/strong><\/p>\n After former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem last September to protest racism and police brutality, he kicked off a protest movement that spread through the NFL.<\/p>\n Trump called the kneeling \u201cunacceptable\u201d<\/em> and said that the players involved should be fired. This was enough for Green to call for impeachment<\/a>. He told Congress that Trump had \u201cundermined the integrity of his office with impunity and…brought disrepute on the presidency with immunity,\u201d<\/em> but acknowledged that he had not actually committed any crime.<\/p>\n For being friends with Putin<\/strong><\/p>\n Last October, as several investigations were still looking for collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian actors, Rep. Waters told CNN<\/a> that the House Intelligence Committee simply had not \u201cconnected the dots.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Trump, she argued, should be impeached for \u201cbeing such good friends with Putin.\u201d<\/em> When asked for proof of this, Waters replied: \u201cI know. And that\u2019s why we have a special counsel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Eight months later, the House Intelligence Committee concluded that no collusion took place, and Mueller\u2019s investigation has yet to turn up any evidence of collusion or obstruction.<\/p>\n For being unfunny and disrespectful<\/strong><\/p>\n In March, Waters again took to TV<\/a> to claim that it was \u201cabsolutely clear\u201d<\/em> that Trump had colluded with Russia, and to call the president \u201cstupid,\u201d \u201cignorant,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d<\/em> and a \u201cmoron.\u201d<\/em> Waters then demanded that Trump be impeached for name-calling.<\/p>\n Several days beforehand, Trump had called Waters \u201ca low IQ individual\u201d<\/em> at a rally in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n For promoting \u2018xenophobia\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Last November, Green promised House Democrats an early Christmas present: a vote on impeachment. Citing no concrete examples of crime or misdemeanor, Green announced that \u201cbefore Christmas, there will be a vote on the \u2018Chief Inciter\u2019 of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism, ethnocentrism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As usual, Green\u2019s anti-Trump tirade delivered no results.<\/p>\n For his potty mouth<\/strong><\/p>\n In January, 66 House Democrats, led by Green, attempted to force a procedural vote to initiate the impeachment process after Trump allegedly referred to Haiti and some African countries as \u201cs**tholes.\u201d<\/em> Green said that a comment like this was an attempt to \u201cconvert his bigoted statements into US policy,\u201d<\/em> and it demonstrated that Trump was \u201cunfit to be president.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The vote failed, with 355 votes against 66. Had it succeeded, the issue would have gone to the Senate, where a team of lawmakers would have tried the president. If two-thirds of the senators found the president guilty, he would have been removed from office.<\/p>\n Facing this fruitless struggle, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California), a vehement opponent of Trump, tamped down talk of impeachment last month. She argued that frivolous calls for Trump\u2019s removal were divisive, and could hurt Democrats in the upcoming midterms.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we should be talking about impeachment. I\u2019ve been very clear right from the start,\u201d<\/em> she said in a press briefing. \u201cOn the political side I think it\u2019s a gift to the Republicans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n “Impeachment to me is a divisive issue unless there’s something so conclusive as we saw \u2026 in Watergate,”<\/em> she said. \u201cThis election is not about what\u2019s going on in the White House and the rest of that. It\u2019s about our addressing the needs of the American people, and we cannot take our eye off that ball.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Pelosi\u2019s concerns have been echoed in the polls, where impeachment is looking like a losing position. Forty-seven percent of registered voters would vote against a candidate pushing impeachment, compared to 42 percent who would vote for such a candidate, according to an NPR\/PBS poll <\/a>taken last month.<\/p>\n Only three presidents have ever been subjected to impeachment proceedings. Andrew Johnson was impeached but acquitted in 1868, as was Bill Clinton in 1998 and 1999. Both stayed in office afterward. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid being impeached.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. 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