Efforts to impeach and undermine President Donald Trump has been increasing as members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are starting to lead the fight.
The black lawmakers are saying that this is a result of Trump’s several racial controversies, from attacking two members of the CBC to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counter-protesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville last summer.
The former head of the CBC, Representative Emanuel Cleaver stated that this stance originated well before Trump arrived in office, it all started when the real estate mogul began raising doubts about former President Barack Obama’s birthplace and his authority to be president.
“I don’t know if the people around the country understand that he has launched … an assault against African-American people starting with his refusal to accept the first African-American president, by continuing to declare that he was from Kenya,” Cleaver commented.
Adding that “no other president in history has had to face that kind of criticism, we’ve come to conclude that this is a part of his belief system.”
According to The Hill, CBC members made their disgust for Trump clear at Tuesday night’s State of the Union, where many pointedly refrained from clapping or shaking his hand or skipped the event altogether.
To clarify Green’s articles of impeachment are not accusing Trump of committing a crime but they say that Trump has “brought the high office of president of the United States in contempt, ridicule, disgrace, and disrepute” and “has sown discord among the people of the United States.”
The articles are pointing to Trump’s comments describing Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries”; the president’s evasive response to the Charlottesville violence; and Trump’s attacks on NFL players which protested police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem.
“Saying that certain countries of color are s-hole countries … and then saying it as you’re discussing a ‘merit-based’ immigration policy. Is it really a merit-based policy, or a race-based policy masquerading as merit-based? This bigotry is being evinced in policy,” Green stated.
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