Democrats have been looking for any excuse to impeach President Donald Trump since the day he was inaugurated. Now one of them thinks he has it — and Thursday he pulled the trigger.
Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced late Thursday morning that he will file articles of impeachment against Trump over the flimsiest “crime” in the history of impeachment.
Cohen says he’s going to remove the president because Trump took too long to condemn white supremacists after Friday’s murder in Charlottesville.
“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,” Cohen said in a statement this morning.
“No moral president would ever shy away from outright condemning hate, intolerance and bigotry,” he said.
There’s just one problem: President Trump condemned racism, Nazism, and the Ku Klux Klan over and over again.
His first statement called the racist riot an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.”
He was even clearer on Monday. Trump blasted “criminals and thugs,” and he named “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
“Racism is evil,” he said. But that wasn’t good enough for the mainstream media, who have been hysterically attacking Trump since the incident.
Of course, Trump wasn’t finished. On Tuesday, he again called Nazi and Klan terrorists “rough, bad people.”
The media criticized him for not blaming all the violence on Klan. But Trump said he waited to condemn the white racists by name until he had “all the facts.”
And he was absolutely right. There was violence from “anti-racist” protesters as well as white supremacists.
The New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg said that “hate-filled” antifa — or alt-left — protesters had swung baseball bats at people. Left-wing protesters sprayed marchers with mace, according to The Daily Caller.
But Cohen wants Trump’s scalp, and that’s that.
Impeachment is supposed to be a last resort for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Waiting to condemn the Klan and neo-Nazis by name may have been a mistake, but it isn’t illegal.
Instead, Cohen said that “President Trump has failed the presidential test of moral leadership.” He even said, because of his oath of office, “It is morally and legally incumbent upon me …to introduce articles of impeachment.”
Cohen has had no problem calling people Nazis. He compared every Republican who tried to repeal Obamacare to the worst Nazi war criminals.
In 2011, he accused Republicans led by John Boehner of telling a “Big Lie just like Goebbels … like (the) blood libel.”
Opposing Obamacare and accusing Jews of secretly murdering Gentile children? “That’s the same kinda thing,” he said.
“The Germans said enough about the Jews, and the people believed it, and you had the Holocaust,” Cohen said.
Cohen condemns Nazis, even when he has to invent them.
This isn’t Cohen’s first attempt to overturn the November election. He introduced a “No Confidence” vote against Trump on July 29, whichf failed.
But Cohen has support; other Democrats support impeachment as well. The Horn News told you that Rep. Brad Sherman of California filed impeachment articles against Trump for allegedly interfering in the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the election.
Now they’re growing in number.
— The Horn editorial team