Texas Rep Green jumps ahead and says he’s gonna draft articles of impeachment despite death threats. For all the times a GOP member squawked about impeaching Obama, I don’t recall any of them receiving death threats – PB/TK
Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green to Start Process to Impeach Trump – By Alex Johnson / June 7 2017
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, said Tuesday he plans to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday despite what he says have been multiple death threats.
Green, who plans to make a formal announcement on Wednesday, has maintained that Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9 constituted obstruction of justice.
“The facts are simple and indisputable,” Green said Tuesday in a statement. “The president fired the FBI director because the director was investigating the president’s campaign connections to Russian interference in the presidential election.”
Green said Comey’s anticipated congressional testimony on Thursday is immaterial — the president’s behavior, not Comey’s, is the issue.
“This will remain obstruction of justice regardless of the findings of any investigation,” he said.
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