Democrat To Introduce Articles Of Impeachment Over Charlottesville
Another Democrat moves for impeachment.
Congressman Steve Cohen, a Democrat who represents Tennessee, announced Thursday that he will introduce articles of impeachment against Donald Trump because of his defense of the white supremacists who participated in a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
“Instead of unequivocally condemning hateful actions by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Klansmen following a national tragedy, the President said ‘there were very fine people on both sides.’ There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen,” Cohen said in a statement.
“President Trump has failed the presidential test of moral leadership.”
“As a Jew and as an American and as a representative of an African American district, I am revolted by the fact that the President of the United States couldn’t stand up and unequivocally condemn Nazis who want to kill Jews and whose predecessors murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, and could not unequivocally condemn Klansmen whose organization is dedicated to terrorizing African Americans,” Cohen said.
“No moral president would ever shy away from outright condemning hate, intolerance and bigotry.”
Cohen is the third House Democrat to introduce Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump. Last month Congressman Brad Sherman introduced Articles of Impeachment arguing that Donald Trump obstructed justice amid the federal investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 presidential election.
