Al Green, democratic representative, has revealed he is introducing impeachment articles against President Donald Trump after the president said the U.S. would “take over” Gaza.
Trump’s plan, the Texas representative said was a “dastardly deed” that amounted to ethnic cleansing.
Green invoked the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in lambasting Trump’s proposal to remove Palestinians from Gaza and rebuild the war-torn territory as a US-owned “Riviera of the Middle East”.
The plan has been globally condemned as “outrageous”, “shameful” and “illegal”.
“Ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world,” he said. “And the prime minister of Israel should be ashamed, knowing the history of his people, to stand there and allow such things to be said.
“Dr King was right. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, and injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America.
I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed, and dastardly deeds done.”
Green said the “impeachment movement is going to be a grass-up movement, not a top-down”, and that “when the people demand it, it will be done”.
There’s a picture that has gone viral of where Ai Green was saying Trump must go
Trump was impeached twice during his first term, in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his efforts to seek help from Ukraine in the following year’s presidential election; and again in 2021 for inciting the January 6 Capitol riot following his defeat by Joe Biden. He was acquitted in the Senate on both occasions.
“I know that it’s time for us to lay the foundation again,” Green said on Wednesday.
“On some issues, it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. On this issue, I stand alone, but I stand for justice.”
