Rep. Al Green says he is drafting articles of impeachment against Trump on Wednesday, despite receiving multiple death threats.
NBC News reported late Tuesday night that Rep. Al Green plans to formally announce his plan to draft articles of impeachment today, maintaining that Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9th of this year constituted obstruction of justice.
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.
“The facts are simple and indisputable,” Green said Tuesday in a statement, adding that “The president fired the FBI director because the director was investigating the president’s campaign connections to Russian interference in the presidential election.”
Continuing, NBC News reports that: “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,” Green stated.
This news follows Green’s May 15, 2017 statement calling for Trump’s impeachment shortly after he fired Director Comey.
Noting that Trump is not “above the law,” Green wrote in his statement that Trump “has committed an impeachable act and must be charged. To do otherwise would cause some Americans to lose respect for, and obedience to, our societal norms.”
The statement went on to say that: “The act is obstruction of a lawful investigation of the President’s campaign ties to Russian influence in his 2016 Presidential Election.”
“These acts, when combined, amount to intimidation and obstruction,” Green added. “I have said on previous occasions, and do now say again, the President should be impeached. I also say that this can happen with a Republican-controlled House and Senate if the public weighs in by demanding that the Republican President be charged by way of impeachment.”
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Green also called for Trump’s impeachment that same day in a fiery speech on the House floor.
“Let me say that this is something I do with a heavy heart and with a profound sense of duty to country. The president has committed obstruction of justice. The president fired the FBI director, who was investigating the president about his connections to the Russians in the 2016 election. This is not about the president, in firing someone else. It is about him firing the FBI director,” he stated.
NBC News reports that Green says he has received several messages from people regarding his calls for impeachment saying that “they would lynch me, and I take that to mean murder me.”
You can watch a clip of Green’s floor speech, below:
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