The House Just Voted to Impeach Donald Trump
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For the third time in United States history, the House of Representatives has voted to impeach the president. In a vote that fell largely along party lines, 229 Democrats and one independent voted to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power, while 195 House Republicans and two Democrats voted against…
The Inevitability of Donald Trump’s Impeachment
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Michael A. McCoy/ZUMA; Getty On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted, on a largely partisan basis, to impeach Donald Trump—only the third time a US president been indicted in this fashion. And as significant and historic as this action was, there was nothing shocking about it. That is different from…
Trump Praises Pelosi and Calls For Bush’s Impeachment in This Must-Watch Clip From 2008
Dennis Van Tine/ZUMA This vintage clip of Donald Trump in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is a doozy: In it, Trump calls Nancy Pelosi “impressive,” defends former President Bill Clinton, and says the impeachment of former President George W. Bush “would have been a wonderful thing.” Blitzer resurfaced the clip on his Twitter account…
Adam Schiff Lays Out the Case for Impeachment in Under 15 Minutes
In less than 15 minutes, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), laid out the case for impeaching President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Trump “tried to cheat,” said Schiff during today’s floor debate on impeachment. And if it weren’t for “the courage” of a whistleblower, “he would have gotten away with it.” Schiff, the chair of the House…
The Trump Era Used to Be Defined by Large Scale Marches. How Come No One Showed up Wednesday?
Carol Guzy/Zuma Across the country Tuesday night, thousands of people rallied in support of impeaching President Donald Trump. In San Francisco, hundreds of people showed up at Federal Plaza with picket signs and chants. In New York, more than a thousand people gathered in Times Square in the rain and cold to make their voices…
Watch Nancy Pelosi Open the House’s Final Impeachment Debate
House Television/AP Clearing the final procedural hurdles in the House of Representatives’ impeachment process, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday announced the opening of the last stretch of debate before the chamber’s historic vote on whether to impeach President Donald Trump. “We gather today under the dome of this temple of democracy to exercise one…