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Elizabeth Warren: Impeach Trump

‘The House Should Initiate Impeachment Proceedings Against the President of the United States’
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was the first top Democrat to announce she is running for president, and she has become the first top Democratic candidate to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019
“The Mueller report,” she added, “lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack,” Senator Warren says on Twitter, late Friday afternoon.
“To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways,” the Massachusetts Democrat added.
She also said:
Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: “Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.” The correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019
UPDATE:
Warren just sent out an email to her supporter list explaining her call for Trump’s impeachment. Usually, such an email would end with a big fat DONATE button at the bottom. Not this one.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) April 19, 2019
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