“I just believe we are at the point of opening impeachment proceedings,” @RepValDemings, one House impeachment manager, said eight months ago. dailysign.al/2TRky1r via @FredLucasWH @DailySignal
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Three of the House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial—Jerry Nadler of New York, Zoe Lofgren of California, and Sylvia Garcia of Texas—are among lawmakers who voted last year to advance the president’s removal.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Eight days after that vote, Trump talked by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the July 25 call in which the leaders discussed former Vice President Joe Biden and his son’s highly paid role on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal On July 17, however, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, had brought his third impeachment resolution to the House floor, forcing a procedural vote on articles of impeachment against Trump for disparaging “the squad,” the name for a group of four progressive House freshmen.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal 95 Democrats—the highest pro-impeachment tally to that point—voted against tabling Green’s resolution.
Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, explained at the time that he wanted to keep options open.
Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, explained at the time that he wanted to keep options open.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal The House’s Dec. 18 votes to impeach Trump on two charges, taken together, represented the fourth overall impeachment resolution taken up by the full House in some form.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Four of the seven impeachment managers voted for at least one of Green’s previous impeachment resolutions, while others spoke in favor of an impeachment inquiry.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Jason Crow was among 66 Democrats who voted for Green’s resolution in January 2018 accusing Trump of being “unfit to defend the ideals that made America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for all, unfit to defend the American ideals of all people created equal.”
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Well before the anonymous whistleblower complaint arising from the Trump-Zelenskyy phone call, Crow wrote a piece calling for an impeachment inquiry and saying: "We must complete the work started by Special Counsel Robert Mueller."
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Long before House Democrats drafted the two articles of impeachment against Trump for “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress,” neither of which is a criminal statute, Green argued that evidence of a crime is not necessary to impeach a president.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Demings didn’t vote for any of the Green resolutions. But shortly after release of the Mueller report in April 2019 and long before the Ukraine controversy emerged, she expressed impatience with the slow pace and frustration with Mueller.
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal “We are struggling to justify why we aren’t beginning impeachment proceedings,” said Demings. “As a 27-year law enforcement officer, and while I understand we need to see the full report and all supporting documents, I believe we have enough evidence now.”
@RepValDemings @FredLucasWH @DailySignal “Mueller didn’t do us any favors,” Demings added, claiming the special counsel only “left us bread crumbs to follow.”
On May 21, Demings said on CNN: “I just believe we are at the point of opening impeachment proceedings.”
On May 21, Demings said on CNN: “I just believe we are at the point of opening impeachment proceedings.”
