Start pushing for Impeachment now.

[milestogo]

We still have a constitution. We still have representative government.

It is OUR JOB as citizens to push our congresspeople to take this remedy against an unlawful president.

I know that a lot of you are absolute experts at pouring cold water on anyone who makes a suggestion. Maybe this time you could hold your tongue or even go along with it anyway. How can it hurt?

I do not believe that all Republican citizens are blind to what is happening.

I do not believe that all Republican elected officials are happy with what Trump is doing.

We need to start something.

[Ninga]

1. Obviously! Now! And when it fails, file again and

and again.
He is creating chaos. I imagine the phones in DC must be blowing up with calls from worried constituents

[Bluethroughu]

2. Sand in the gears is good, even if it doesn't have republican't support.

[johnnyfins]

36. THIS THIS THIS

[maxsolomon]

3. What's the crime?

Holding my tongue, other than that question.

[Think. Again.]

4. Here's one, I'm sure there are more...

https://democraticunderground.com/100219955901

[totodeinhere]

47. But the maggots on the SCOTUS ruled that he is above the law and can do whatever

he wants legal or not. We would never get 67 votes in the Senate to convict. And if a couple of House Republicans went along and he were impeached he would just use that to rally more support from his cult.

[Think. Again.]

53. The best response I've read to that...

...is that an unconstitutiinal act can not be considered an official act.

Moving to impeach can have benefits over and above a conviction.

[Ninga]

5. This helped me to get it

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000685582642
Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: To repeat myself - because I’m RIGHT - File motions to impeach Trump NOW.
Move to impeach Trump today, AND KEEP MOVING to impeach Trump every day through next year’s midterms. Impeachment is UNDEFEATED. UNDEFEATED in American history. House Democrats: he handed you TWELVE, maybe FIFTEEN new counts on Friday night alone. Blatantly, brazenly illegal dismissals of Departmental Inspector Generals, just as Project 2025 promised, and the School Safety Board. Elimination of oversight. Elimination of legal protections against the mass murder of children. In the old days you might’ve arrested Trump. Now you are limited to impeachment bills that will all fail EXCEPT THEY WILL ULTIMATELY SUCCEED.
Impeach him for the Friday Night massacre. Impeach him for circumventing the 14th Amendment. He just ramped up the migrant arrest quota to 1500 a day and started raids in Chicago yesterday: Impeach him for violating the 4th Amendment. And if I hear one more piece of blowback to my PREVIOUS call to impeach him no matter the outcome, one more head-shake from a cowardly Democrat, and especially one more factually inaccurate claim that it doesn’t work, one more self-absorbed loser saying ‘Impeach? Yeah, sounds good. How did it work out for us last time?
Pretty effing well, actually. The mere TALK of impeaching Trump helped the Democrats win the House in 2018 and break Trump tri-partite control of government. The FIRST impeachment was followed by keeping the house in 2020 and after the Georgia election, taking the senate in 2020, and oh by the way the White House in 2020. The SECOND impeachment crushed any lingering attempt by Trump to overthrow the Biden Government-In-Waiting in 2021 and provided the impetus for the January 6th prosecutions. 
In fact, since Nixon, every party that impeached or TRIED to impeach a president won the next elections. House, Senate, White House. Thirteen straight.
IMPEACHMENT – EVEN FAILED IMPEACHMENT - IS UNDEFEATED.

[90-percent]

44. The great keith olbermann....

Has been all over this in his recent podcasts

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-90% jimmy

[milestogo]

6. This

https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/

1. Violations of the Emoluments Clause

The Constitution contains two clauses known as the Emoluments Clauses that prohibit a president from profiting from the United States, individual states, or foreign governments (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8; and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7). The Founders understood them to provide a critical safeguard against corruption, particularly corruption of the executive by foreign powers. As Alexander Hamilton explained, the Foreign Emoluments Clause ensures that foreign powers “can neither weaken his fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice.” The Federalist No. 73.

Trump has refused to sell his ownership stake in companies through which he is assured to receive substantial payments from foreign governments in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause. At least five foreign governments pay a combined $2 million per month in fees for their units in Trump World Tower; and because all five of these foreign governments are currently paying Trump these monthly fees, Trump is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause from the moment he took the oath of office.

Congress must open an immediate impeachment investigation based on these grounds.

Congress must also be prepared to expand its impeachment investigation if Trump receives any additional unlawful domestic or foreign emoluments via any of his business holdings, which includes: numerous real estate holdings, including golf resorts that have repeatedly hosted a golf league backed by the Saudi Arabian government; the Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social; and World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project that will funnel 75% of its net profits directly to Trump.

2. Unlawful, unconstitutional, and corrupt conduct during the 2024 presidential campaign

Congress’s impeachment investigation must also examine unlawful, unconstitutional, or corrupt practices that occurred during Trump’s re-election campaign, which include:

Violating campaign finance laws by offering benefits in exchange for campaign contributions, including (1) by offering tax and regulatory favors to oil and gas executives if they provide r $1 billion in contributions; (2) concealing legal services payments by his campaign and related super PACs; (3) unlawfully coordinating with super PACs that supported his candidacy, including those financed by billionaires he later appointed to key administrative positions; and (4) facilitating and accepting unlawful campaign contributions from Elon Musk via X and via Musk’s million-dollar “lottery” scheme that paid out prizes only to individuals who would publicly support Trump.

Using racist, xenophobic rhetoric, including by referring to immigrants in Aurora, Colorado as “blood thirty criminals” from whom voters have to be “rescued”; repeating false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after such claims led to bomb threats and other threats of violence; and referring to immigrants as committing “horrendous crimes” because of “their genes.”

Threatening physical violence, including murder, against political opponents, a U.S. military commander, journalists, and protesters; and

Spreading dangerous disinformation about U.S. hurricane disaster response.

3. Pardoning and Blocking the Prosecution of Fellow Insurrectionists

Congress’s impeachment investigation must include Trump’s abuse of the pardon power and his efforts to undermine the independence of the US Department of Justice in order to protect the January 6 insurrectionists—including himself. Trump himself engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, inciting hundreds of violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol in order to try to overturn an election that he lost. His co-insurrectionists seized control of the Capitol, disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, assaulted law enforcement and journalists, vandalized the Capitol and individual congressional offices, and threatened the lives and safety of our elected officials and law enforcement. In the intervening years, more than one thousand insurrectionists have been held legally accountable for their actions. Many pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and felony convictions, while others were found guilty after trial by a jury of their peers.

But Trump has now granted complete and unconditional pardons or sentence commutations of all of them, including those who were convicted of assaulting law enforcement, as well as the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers imprisoned for seditious conspiracy. He also has ordered the Department of Justice to drop cases against all remaining January 6 defendants. Trump has intentionally blocked our country’s efforts to hold his fellow insurrectionists accountable for their actions, and, in so doing, he protects himself from either further examination or further repercussions of his own role in the insurrection. In the face of a president abusing his power, as he has done here, Congress has a responsibility to follow the mandate of Article II, Section 4 (the Impeachment Clause) of the US Constitution and initiate an impeachment inquiry.

[ancianita]

10. Can you please look up and post the laws violated with these?

[milestogo]

18. I think there is enough information there for you or someone else to do it.

[ancianita]

28. Okay. Here's my effort to find the actual Law(s). We shouldn't be saying something's illegal if we don't cite the law.

There are none. None.

There is this from Google AI, then Wikipedia:

"C.F.R. 6 § 110.121 Security clearances and access to classified information" is a part of US law, specifically within the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), stating that no person can access classified information without a security clearance; essentially outlining the legal requirement for obtaining a security clearance to access classified information.

Congress frequently delegates authority to an executive branch agency to issue regulations to govern some sphere. The CFR is not to be confused with the USC, the United States Code, which represents statutory law, not regulatory law.

Here's the regulatory law, which is not a U.S.C. statute:
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part110/part110-0121.html#

[Chemical Bill]

69. .

https://www.britannica.com/story/what-is-the-emoluments-clause

[ancianita]

70. He's been sued under the clause, but not impeached. Nothing has come from either.

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/emoluments-lawsuit#:~:text=In%202017%2C%20Attorney%20General%20Racine,from%20foreign%20or%20domestic%20governments.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ends-trump-lawsuits-df42ef0eec5fa57edf3e294234051d88

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Donald_Trump

Courts can rule, yes; but they're not equipped to enforce the rulings, except to issue fines, arrest warrants, jail time, wage garnishment, liens on assets, court-ordered community service, or other sanctions to force "compliance." But enforce their rulings or the law themselves? No.

And now there won't be a good faith DOJ and its FBI to enforce the law, either, since both exist within the executive branch. Which might be why so many believe that democracy's rule of law has been broken.

[yellow dahlia]

67. .

[LymphocyteLover]

17. many but right now it's the federal fereeze on all grants-- total unconstitutional power grab

[Patton French]

7. How does the minority party in the House bring articles of impeachment?

NT

[maxsolomon]

13. HOLD YOUR TONGUE

didn't you read the OP?

[Patton French]

22. I suppose it's fun to fantisize.

We should be focused on winning the House and Senate in 2026.

[Cirsium]

35. Advocating is not fantasizing

Everything starts with advocacy. Often that means advocacy for things that seem impossible - Abolition, Women's Suffrage, for example.

"It's not realistic" is an excuse for complacency, compromise, and complicity.

The mantra from many Democratic party politicians post Reagan has always been "elect us and then we will take firm stands on all of those issues you are about." No. It works the other way around: take a stand and then people will vote for you. That is being practical and realistic. If you are serious about being focused on winning the House and Senate in 2026, that is.

[Maru Kitteh]

75. No, but it is "thoughts and prayers" for a moral victory. I'm full up on both.

Advocating for an impeachment that is not possible to bring about at this time is precisely equivalent to “thoughts and prayers.”

OH BOY! Let’s gather up all our energy and resources around a third impeachment because THE FIRST TWO DID SO MUCH GOOD.

[Cirsium]

78. I don't get the opposition to this

I made a strong case, and you haven't addressed it at all. You just cavalierly dismissed it out of hand. This is nothing like "thoughts and prayers."

As I said, people were advocating for Abolition when it was "not possible to bring about at this time."

It doesn't take up any "energy and resources." Open mouth. Speak. We are all going to be doing that anyway. Instead of opening your mouth and lecturing people about what can't be done, how about when you open your moth tell people what should be done? It won't take any more energy or resources.

Advocating for impeachment, like advocating for Abolition, are calls to action and are intended to start the discussion.

"Thoughts and prayers" is a call for inaction, and is intended to end the discussion.

See the difference?

[Maru Kitteh]

79. Really? We've been drawing pictures and everything.

It's the definition of insanity and all that. You are advocating that we continue to do more of exactly what we have been doing. We’re on a Boeing jet in the middle of a nosedive over Christotalibanistan and you want us to spend our resources and time on a concept of a plan to advocate for changes to the passenger safety card.

[Cirsium]

80. As I said

I don't get it. We see things very differently.

[milestogo]

19. Lots of things involve persuasion.

[Lonestarblue]

20. It can't.

[Linda ladeewolf]

49. The opportunity will arise.

Something will occur which even the GNop can’t support. And soon.

[JCMach1]

8. The only possibility is Direct Democratic Action

Protests of a scale not seen in this country before.


Too late for Congress, or courts to save us.

For a recent example, see the Gen Z protests in Kenya.
Kenya’s Historic Gen-Z led Protests: The Issues – ACCORD https://search.app/h42o3iMPUMB3rWpm8

[Polybius]

9. Personally, I would wait for something more serious

We have to have at least 60% public support, or it could backfire. No way are more than 40% going to support impeachment for firing Inspector Generals. Thankfully, Jeffries knows this.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. his freezing of federal grants and aid is HUGE deal

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccasolnit.bsky.social/post/3lgssqmmyw227


https://bsky.app/profile/rimaanabtawi.bsky.social/post/3lgstth5y7k2e

[Polybius]

23. To me, a huge deal is invading Greenland

The average American may oppose freezing federal grants, but won't view it as illegal enough to impeach. Just my opinion, don't take it out on me. Take it up with leader Jeffries.

[JCMach1]

31. Sleight of hand: likely literally staging to seize Panama Canal

[LymphocyteLover]

71. it's all a huge deal, as is the orange turd complete dismantling of the federal govt

[milestogo]

11. We have to do this BEFORE we lose the internet.

You think it can't happen?
You don't know Trump.

[sagetea]

12. Yes! And,

Arrest Sniff Jr. for purchasing a gun while addicted to drugs. You KNOW he did.


sage

[Greybnk48]

14. YES! And dog him the entire four years with one thing after another.

Someone should declare their candidacy for President and start holding rallies bashing Trump 24-7 for the next four years. I would contribute money to support that, and so would many, many people. Just to hear someone publicly bash that slob on a regular, public basis.

If the Networks refuse to show clips of the rallies, we could sue them given they put Trump on all the time for the four years of the Biden administration. The lawsuits themselves would make the news and draw attention to the resistance.

I just want to feel like we are being aggressively resistant to this coup. It would be empowering.

[Alliepoo]

34. Agree!!

Sounds like a great plan. Time to start using the maga playbook against them.

[progressoid]

15. Constitution?

Oh, that ole thing.

Nobody gives a fuck about that.

[SheltieLover]

16. Absofuckingloutely!

[LymphocyteLover]

24. States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/states-lawsuit-trump-federal-grants-pause.html

Insanity
"The freeze order, a two-page memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” specifically citing “D.E.I., woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.” The meaning of the directive was unclear and has plunged state agencies, city governments and nonprofit organizations into confusion."

[Tickle]

66. I thought it effected Medicaid,

Cancer patients and more

[Bo Zarts]

25. Front burner. All the time. ASAP.

Stat.

[hadEnuf]

26. We talk ourselves out of fighting before we even start. Always.

We take no risks, we don't want to be offensive, we bring knives to gun fights, we are too worried about what the enemy will think of us and we turn the rule book on ourselves.

It happens every single time.

These people crawled out of the sewers, and we are too timid to even set foot in the gutter to say anything to them.

Until we lose the milquetoast shit and start building up to defend ourselves and this country we will simply laughed at and dumped on by these cretins.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

38. We're too unfocused, passive, and unorganized.

The Republicans are just the opposite: focused, active, and organized.

They have myriad right-wing think tanks (including the Heritage Foundation), they have the Federalist Society (including Leonard Leo helping them get control of SCOTUS), they dominate talk radio, they dominate social media (via X, Meta, etc.), they own the corporate news media, they have the billionaire class funding them (including Elon Musk, the richest person in the world), they have an army of lawyers helping them implement voter suppression and gerrymandering, and so on.

It's a miracle we lasted as long as we did.

Now, Republicans are moving in for the kill and we can't even agree on what to do.

[hadEnuf]

45. We've been trying to figure out what to do since 2001, but nobody really listened or believed what the RW was about.

With the exception of some here and a few other places.

The last 4 years were critical, but inaction has now gotten us where we are today.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

50. There were so many mistakes made the last four years I could scream.

After the 2020 election, our democracy was hanging by a thread.

We were lucky beyond belief that we defeated Trump. He almost succeeded with his coup.

Then there were the sequence of failures and betrayals to hold Trump accountable that have been endlessly rehashed here at DU.

Even as those things were happening in real time, we could see what should have been done but were utterly powerless to do anything about it.

I'll be honest. I'll never understand Washington politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) or how things actually work in that world.

But as for our situation now, I don't see any plausible way out.

Republicans have amassed too much power.

And they're going for the kill.

[hadEnuf]

55. I'm thinking that we can only rely on the Constitution, the law, citizen resistance and action at this point.

Be it online, the regular media, in person, the courts - whatever it takes. As a figure of speech, grab them by their throats and do not let go. Disrupt, harass, and derail quietly, and ram home the truth to everybody not so quietly.

And we need to get rid of this "weak" perception that the Right has of us. They need to know that if they come goosestepping down the street with their big bad guns to educate us "liberals" they will get the same or worse right back at them.

They will think twice with that threat in the back of their empty heads.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

56. Agreed.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

73. I've changed my mind about this.

That kind of thinking can become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Instead, I decided to get involved with Indivisible.

I'm going to also subscribe to Rachel Maddow's podcast and watch or listen to it everyday to keep abreast of how to best resist Trump's assault on our democracy.

Lastly, I urge everyone who hasn't already done so to explore Indivisible.org to learn how we can organize and defeat Trump's rollout of Project 2025.

[Attilatheblond]

27. Push this with your House rep, especially if they are GOP. Let them feel heat and know WE also have power.

[Dem4life1970]

29. His firing IGs is an impeachable offense...

Even Lindsay Graham admitted as much, that "technically yeah" Trump broke the law (as Lawrence O'Donnell reported).

[iemanja]

30. Were the R's blind the last two times?

Yes. I believe in resisting, but I don't think impeachment is the answer. We need to plan something that will work. Remember, impeachment needs to be followed by conviction to matter at all. They wouldn't convict after Jan 6. They won't do it now. Facts do matter.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Just called. It is one thing they can do, know how to do and it sends a message to the twice-impeached convicted felon.

[Alliepoo]

33. Heck yes!! 100% yes!!

Every single day.

[Bluethroughu]

37. Call it on the floor for executive overreach purposefully

Attacking the economy, citizens wellbeing, and national security!

Talk about everything he is doing all day long, call a press conference.

[yellow dahlia]

68. Right. More vocal!

Inform the people. Counter narrative!

[Rendville]

39. Thank You!

Thank you for saying it. And keep presenting this. There are many aspects and avenues that will make plenty of sense to both sides of the aisle in the coming weeks.

[Lulu KC]

54. I'm curious

about both sides of the aisle. Where do you think he's losing their support?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

72. Welcome to DU

[DinahMoeHum]

40. Get the House and 67 US Senators to go along.

Otherwise, this is just pissing in the wind.

[unweird]

41. Maybe it's time we got a little wet

Pissing in the wind will splash us all. But our civic affairs demand it.

[DinahMoeHum]

43. Fine. Give me a list of the 67 US Senators

who will vote to convict and remove him.

Otherwise, please don't waste either of our time.

[unweird]

57. Standing up for what is right is NOT a waste of time

But feel free to be all the negativity you can be.

[Sugarcoated]

58. YES

[milestogo]

60. Yes.

Thank you.

[hadEnuf]

46. We are pissing in the wind now.

At least show people we are gonna fight. No one who has been impeached has ever walked away completely unscathed.

At least throw some godamned punches and expose what this fascist bastard Trump is doing.

[DinahMoeHum]

52. He's already been impeached TWICE. . .

. . .but not convicted, because there weren't enough US Senators who wanted to convict him

Which is why he STILL runs scot-free.

Please find some other battle to do serious impact on the guy. Otherwise, this talk of impeachment is nothing more than a performative gesture.

[hadEnuf]

61. It's about the only legal option we have.

Of course he will not be removed from office with the current makeup of the House and Senate. That's not the point. The point is to lay him to bear and damage him with the American people.

It's better than doing nothing.

[DinahMoeHum]

62. "only legal option" my Aunt Fanny

There are lawsuits to tie him up with, and, failing that, other options to block him.

But go ahead, sacrifice yourself on that shitty hill if you want. I ain't wasting time on useless, performative gestures like this. Been there, done that.

I have better things to do as a Democratic district leader working on the local end of things to ensure that MAGA shit from DC doesn't spill over into my neighborhood.

[hadEnuf]

63. Yeah, lawsuits will solve it all.

How about a multi-pronged approach? Lawsuits and any other options to block him, including impeachment.

Or are we back to the "impeachment is off the table" nonsense again?

We need to use everything we have, including what you think are performative gestures.

[DinahMoeHum]

64. WTF, man?

Full Ignore for you.

[hadEnuf]

65. Gee, did I say something wrong to get ignored?

You are part of the problem. Thanks for proving that.

[samsingh]

42. sorry - what would be the point of that? and which part of Congress is even going to show interest in doing so?

[malaise]

48. K & R

Yeees!

[J_William_Ryan]

51. "What's the crime?"

As likely has already been correctly noted: a president doesn’t need to commit a crime to be impeached.

‘Misdemeanors’ refers to bad acts and conduct, not criminal activity – a president can be removed from office because he’s unfit to be president, which is in fact the case with Trump.

[milestogo]

59. Trying to overturn birthright citizenship is a clear violation of the Constitution.

There are so many things. I'm no lawyer, but there are lots of good people who can do this.

[Paladin]

74. + 1,000,000. (nt)

[kacekwl]

76. I agree we may not

have enough yet but it hasn't been 2 weeks yet. Give it time and get ducks in a row in the meantime. I think at the rate he's going about three months should do it.

[in2herbs]

77. Can any of F47s staff or appointees be impeached, especially for perjury? If so why limit to just F47? nt