Washington– The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected an attempt to impeach President Donald Trump by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas The second time This year, Democrats’ efforts to begin impeachment proceedings against him were pushed aside.
The House of Representatives voted by 237 votes to 140 in favor of suspending the decision to impeach Greene, in the presence of 47 Democratic legislators. The result was expected, but it signals a shift in support for impeachment among House Democrats, who rejected a similar measure by a much wider margin in June.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his deputies said in a statement before the vote that impeachment “requires a comprehensive investigative process” that the Republican majority did not undertake. However, Democratic leaders privately declined to directly oppose the resolution, instead voting “present.”
“Impeachment is a sacred constitutional instrument designed to hold a corrupt executive accountable for abuse of power, breaking the law, and violating the public trust,” they said.
They continued: “None of this hard work has been done, as the Republican majority has focused solely on automatically approving Donald Trump’s extremist agenda. Accordingly, we will vote ‘present’ on today’s proposal.”
Greene said impeachment proceedings are necessary because he believes Trump committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” in his second term, a constitutionally required ban on impeachment and removal from office.
Greene’s June resolution accused Trump of bypassing Congress and potentially declaring war on Iran after the administration launched air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The latest version sought to impeach Trump on charges of “threatening Democratic lawmakers in Congress with death” over the case Social media video He urged military personnel to reject illegal orders.
“He has conducted himself in office to the point where people are now threatening members of the judiciary, threatening members of the House, threatening members of the Senate,” Greene said in a brief speech before the vote.
Trump was impeached twice in his first term, first in 2019 by a Democratic-majority chamber over his effort to persuade Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to resign. An investigation was opened into corruption in the Biden family Before the 2020 elections. He was impeached for the second time in 2021 by the House of Representatives due to his attempt to overturn the election results. 2020 elections and Riots at the US Capitol. The Senate acquitted him both times.
Republicans are beginning to warn that Democrats are intent on impeaching Trump for a third time if they win the majority, pushing them to the forefront of next year’s campaigns. Many of them dismissed Thursday’s vote as a distraction.
“It shows you that they don’t have an agenda,” said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican from Florida. “And so this is the kind of thing they were doing, rather than actually trying to solve the issues of the American people.” “This isn’t a surprise, but it shows you that Democrats are continuing to do the same thing they’ve been doing for years, which is playing games and not coming up with real solutions.”
Democratic leaders insisted that they had no intention of impeaching Trump in his second term and stressed the danger of such actions and the need for a comprehensive investigation.
Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat and vice chair of the Democratic caucus, said there was a “diversity of views” on impeachment in the caucus. He said House Democrats intend to oversee the administration if they win a majority in next year’s midterm elections, but a victory at the ballot box does not guarantee a vote on impeachment.
“I think you’re going to have to do an investigation where you’re actually talking to witnesses and reviewing documents and looking at video and listening to audio. You’re going to have to do all of that before you make any decisions,” he said.