A top Democrat has once again suggested that his party will move to impeach President Donald Trump again if they win back control of the House in the November midterms. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, one of the “Seditious Six,” warned during an interview with CNN that U.S. military members should disobey their commander-in-chief, as he recently urged in a video.
“I am not holding my breath that…a Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican-controlled House… are going to move…on [impeachment]…which is why the midterms are so important,” Crow told network host Pamela Brown after she noted that Trump was already warning Democrats would do that again should they win.
Trump said Tuesday that Republicans must win the upcoming midterm elections, warning that a Democratic victory would lead to impeachment efforts and the advancement of policies he claimed most Americans oppose.
Trump made the remarks while addressing House Republicans at their retreat at the Trump–Kennedy Center, where he emphasized that the elections could determine whether the GOP retains control of both chambers of Congress, Fox News reported.
“They’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said if Democrats move into power. “We don’t impeach them. You know why? Because they’re meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things.”
That said, Trump added Democrat policies are unpopular and that would prevent them from retaking the House later this year.
“But when they want open borders, when they want, as they said, men in women’s sports, when they want transgender for everyone,” he said, “Bring your kids in. We’re going to change the sex of your child.”
“We have great, solid common sense policy,” he added. “They have horrendous policy. What they do is they stick together. They never have a no vote.”
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Trump was impeached twice during his first term, becoming the only U.S. president to face impeachment on two occasions.
The first impeachment stemmed from allegations that he sought assistance from Ukraine to aid his re-election bid; the Senate later acquitted him. He was impeached a second time on charges of inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol following his challenge of the 2020 election results and was again acquitted after a Senate trial.
A few Republicans sided with all Democrats over impeachment but most of them are no longer in Congress.
“They impeached me. I never knew I was going to be impeached,” he said. “I get a phone call. You just got impeached. I said, ‘What does that mean?’”
“It took them ten minutes … they impeached the president … who did a damn good job,” Trump added. “I rebuilt our military space force. I got everything. I did a lot. They impeached me for nothing twice. For nothing.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said two weeks ago that some Republicans may support efforts to impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Department of Justice’s failure to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein by a congressionally mandated deadline.
Khanna said the Justice Department did not fully comply with the disclosure requirements, raising concerns among lawmakers about transparency and oversight.
He also said that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) would lead the effort if impeachment proceedings were pursued. Speaking during an interview on Morning Joe, Khanna said that “there are a few Republicans who are on board with it.”
He added, however, that impeachment would not be the initial step, saying lawmakers would first seek to hold Bondi in contempt of Congress as a means of pressuring the Justice Department to comply with document requests.
Democrats have repeatedly raised the prospect of impeaching officials serving in President Donald Trump’s administration, though such efforts have faced long odds in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives
