Archiv: impeachment


21.08.2023 - 08:21 [ BBC ]

Leftist leads Ecuador presidential poll count amid spike in violence

The snap election was called after President Guillermo Lasso – a conservative former banker – dissolved parliament to avoid impeachment.

Sunday‘s voting was peaceful, much to the relief of Ecuadoreans fearful of the political violence that has taken hold of the country.

14.02.2021 - 13:11 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Biden zu Trump-Freispruch: „Beenden wir diesen unhöflichen Krieg“

Alle Amerikaner, und insbesondere ihre Führungsfiguren, hätten die Pflicht und Verantwortung, „die Wahrheit zu verteidigen und die Lügen zu besiegen“, hieß es in dem Statement Bidens.

„Auf diese Weise beenden wir diesen unhöflichen Krieg und heilen die Seele unserer Nation. Das ist die Aufgabe, die vor uns liegt. Und es ist eine Aufgabe, die wir gemeinsam angehen müssen, als Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika.“ Gewalt und Extremismus hätten keinen Platz in den Vereinigten Staaten.

14.02.2021 - 13:08 [ White House ]

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Senate Vote in the Trial of Donald Trump

This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant. That violence and extremism has no place in America. And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.

That is how we end this uncivil war and heal the very soul of our nation. That is the task ahead. And it’s a task we must undertake together. As the United States of Americ

27.01.2021 - 00:32 [ theHill.com ]

Just five GOP senators vote Trump impeachment trial is constitutional

The Senate sent a strong signal Tuesday that there are not nearly enough votes to convict President Trump in an impeachment trial when only five GOP senators rejected an effort by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to declare the looming trial unconstitutional.

14.01.2021 - 18:36 [ NPR.org ]

House Votes To Impeach Trump, But Senate Trial Unlikely Before Biden‘s Inauguration

The House of Representatives has impeached President Trump for the second time in 13 months — making him the only president to have received the rebuke twice. Despite the historic nature of a twice-impeached, one-term president, it is extremely unlikely that Trump will be removed from office through impeachment, as the Senate will not reconvene until Jan. 19 — the day before President-elect Joe Biden is to be inaugurated.

12.01.2021 - 21:07 [ Max Blumenthal / Twitter ]

“My first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol” -an actual US senator

12.01.2021 - 20:43 [ MSNBC / Twitter ]

NEW: FBI and DOJ to hold 3 p.m. ET news conference on Wednesday‘s storming of the US Capitol, DOJ announces.

12.01.2021 - 20:39 [ Meet the Press / Twitter ]

WATCH: House readies impeachment vote amid new briefings on Capitol security concerns. #MTPDaily @chucktodd : „Some members of Congress will be casting an impeachment vote tomorrow, while fearing for their lives.“

11.01.2021 - 19:11 [ theHill.com ]

Democrats file impeachment article accusing Trump of inciting attack on Capitol

A trio of House Democrats close to leadership on Monday introduced a single article of impeachment against President Trump, charging him with inciting a mob of his supporters to carry out a violent attack on the Capitol in a bid to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.

08.05.2020 - 01:31 [ Tagesschau ]

Ex-Trump-Mitarbeiter Flynn entlastet

Trump bezeichnete Flynn daraufhin als „völlig entlastet“. Flynn sei Opfer der Machenschaften von „dreckigen, widerlichen Bullen an der Spitze“ der Bundespolizei FBI.

18.01.2020 - 10:43 [ Prospect.org ]

Trump’s War Against Iran Is an Impeachable Offense

What the president has already done justifies a third article of impeachment.

18.01.2020 - 04:01 [ The Hill ]

Sanders to headline Iowa event amid impeachment trial

Sanders this week said he was concerned about losing time on the campaign trail during the weeks-long trial.

“I would rather be in Iowa today. There’s a caucus there in 2 1/2 weeks. I’d rather be in New Hampshire and Nevada and so forth. But I swore a constitutional oath as a United States senator to do my job and I’m here to do my job,” he said Thursday.

07.01.2020 - 06:29 [ MSNBC ]

Rep. Khanna: Article of impeachment ‚on the table‘ after Iran strike

Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins Hallie Jackson to discuss an upcoming war powers resolution in the House to prevent President Trump from escalating the conflict with Iran. Khanna describes any further action by the President that is not sanctioned by Congress as a „potentially impeachable offense.“

19.12.2019 - 04:03 [ Reuters ]

Pompeo: will cooperate with impeachment trial if required by law

“I’m happy to do document productions, I’m happy to testify if that’s appropriate, required by the law,” Pompeo said at a news conference with Indian foreign and defense ministers and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

“State Department has done the same thing all the way through, we will continue to do so,” he said.

19.12.2019 - 03:40 [ Tim Mak / Twitter ]

Gabbard, in a statement: „I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country“

19.12.2019 - 03:10 [ ORF ]

Trump-Impeachment offiziell eingeleitet

Das US-Repräsentantenhaus stimmte am Mittwochabend (Ortszeit) für die offizielle Eröffnung eines Impeachment-Verfahrens. Mit der Mehrheit der Demokraten votierte die Kammer dafür, dass sich Trump wegen Machtmissbrauchs im Senat verantworten muss.

27.11.2019 - 09:55 [ theHill.com ]

Ex-Clinton strategist met with Trump to talk impeachment

“I am not working for Donald Trump in any way and I would never do so — either paid or unpaid. I’ve been dozens of times on TV about events of the day and that was the extent of my comments,” Penn continued. “I think the country needs all our leaders to focus on governing.”

Penn reportedly encouraged Trump to focus on the substance of the allegations against him related to his interactions with Ukraine, which are the focus of the House impeachment inquiry.

03.11.2019 - 10:42 [ The Hill ‏/ Twitter ]

.@RepJayapal: „At the end of the day, we are going to need Republicans to decide if they‘re going to stand up for their constituents and our democracy and the Constitution or if they‘re going to stick with the President.“

20.10.2019 - 13:37 [ Bill Van Auken / WSWS.org ]

The Democrats support the “Forever War”

The violence that is being inflicted upon the Kurdish people of Syria is tragic. The role played by the Kurdish bourgeois nationalist leadership, however, has been shortsighted and criminal. Once again, they hitched their wagon to imperialism, hoping to gain its support for the carving out of an ethnic Kurdish state. The results were entirely predictable. As Henry Kissinger infamously stated after betraying the Kurds following a 1975 deal brokered between the Shah of Iran and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, “Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.”

In its most despicable passage, the New York Times editorial places Trump’s action within the context of a US history that is “littered with instances of one-time allies abandoned to their fate—the Bay of Pigs invasion; the fall of South Vietnam …”

For the Times to cast the Bay of Pigs or the fall of Saigon as an example of Washington’s “betrayals” testifies to the drastic rightward shift in the ex-liberal media.

18.10.2019 - 02:06 [ CNBC ]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry told Trump he intends to step down

Perry, formerly the governor of Texas, had largely avoided headlines since joining the Trump administration in 2017. But in recent weeks he became entangled in the Democratic-led impeachment probe into Trump‘s actions involving Ukraine.

30.09.2019 - 21:31 [ theHill.com ]

Gabbard announces support for Trump impeachment inquiry

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She called for a quick and focused probe rather than a prolonged investigation.

“This inquiry must be swift, thorough, and narrowly-focused,“ Gabbard said. „It cannot be turned into a long, protracted partisan circus that will further divide our country and undermine our democracy.“

The lawmaker told Hill.TV on Wednesday that an impeachment inquiry would be „terribly divisive.“

30.09.2019 - 21:25 [ Tulsi Gabbard, candidate for President / Twitter ]

Candidates for POTUS who are fundraising off „impeachment“ are undermining credibility of inquiry in eyes of American people, further dividing our already fractured country. Please stop. We need responsible, patriotic leaders who put the interests of our country before their own.

30.09.2019 - 21:09 [ theHill.com ]

Pelosi tells Democrats to focus on Constitution, not Trump

The aide said the Speaker told members the inquiry “isn’t about politics” or partisanship — “It’s about patriotism,” she said.

“The idea that this has anything to do with whether you like him or not — forget that. That’s about the election. This is about the Constitution,” Pelosi said, according to an aide.

30.09.2019 - 21:00 [ Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee / Twitter ]

We had no choice but to move forward with an impeachment inquiry, And our focus will be on the president’s fundamental breach of his oath office. Coercing a foreign nation to interfere in our election is never ok, No matter what the president and his defenders say.

30.09.2019 - 20:57 [ CNN ]

Trump circulates quote invoking ‚civil war-like fracture‘ if he‘s removed from office

President Donald Trump spent the weekend on Twitter defending himself against Democrats‘ upcoming impeachment inquiry by quoting his supporters on cable news, including a pastor‘s inflammatory prediction that the country could be destroyed and a civil war would ensue if the President was removed from office.
Evangelical pastor and Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress claimed on the network, „Democrats don‘t care if they burn down and destroy the nation in the process“ of impeachment.

30.09.2019 - 20:49 [ New York Times ]

Trump Raises Idea of Arresting House Chairman for Treason

President Trump on Monday questioned whether the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff, should be arrested for treason for his description of a phone call Mr. Trump had with the president of Ukraine during a recent congressional hearing.

A day earlier, Mr. Trump called for Mr. Schiff — the California Democrat who is the de facto head of an impeachment inquiry into the call — to be “questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason.”

30.09.2019 - 06:12 [ theHill.com ]

Sunday shows — Impeachment grips Washington

A House impeachment inquiry into President Trump dominated the Sunday political talk shows.

Featured guests included Trump‘s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, current and former White House aides and top Democrats.

30.09.2019 - 02:24 [ The Hill ]

Trump demands to meet whistleblower, warns of ‚Big Consequences‘

Schiff, who as the House Intelligence Committee chairman is helping oversee the probe into the phone call, has said the whistleblower is likely to testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. Mark S. Zaid, one of the lawyers representing the whistleblower, confirmed on Sunday evening that they were continuing to coordinate with lawmakers but that no time or date had yet been set for testimony.

29.09.2019 - 11:28 [ JoeFaz™® VetsResistSquadron ‏/ Twitter ]

„It doesn’t matter,“ Pelosi responded. „Our first responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.“ Me: This is what a brave woman would say

Pelosi: Impeachment worth losing House in 2020

29.09.2019 - 11:21 [ theHill.com ]

Pelosi: Impeachment worth losing House in 2020

„It doesn’t matter,“ Pelosi responded. „Our first responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.“

„People say you have to take a political risk doing that,“ she continued. „That doesn‘t matter. That doesn‘t matter.

29.09.2019 - 11:04 [ Newsweek ]

Americans Split on Trump Impeachment Inquiry but 73% Say Whistleblower Should Testify Before Congress: Polls

A NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, released on Thursday, shows that 49 percent of Americans approve of the impeachment proceedings, while 46 percent disapprove and five percent said they were unsure.

Despite the divide, an overwhelming portion of respondents—three quarters—including a majority of Republicans, want the whistleblower to testify before Congress so the public can receive more information on the allegations against Trump.

28.09.2019 - 03:24 [ Zeit ]

Kurt Volker: Donald Trumps Ukraine-Sondergesandter tritt zurück

Volker gehört zu fünf Mitarbeitern des Außenministeriums, die die Demokraten im Repräsentantenhaus im Rahmen ihrer Untersuchungen für ein mögliches Amtsenthebungsverfahren gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump vorgeladen haben.

28.09.2019 - 02:18 [ ORF ]

Ukraine-Affäre: US-Demokraten fordern Dokumente von Pompeo

Die Vorsitzenden des Auswärtigen Ausschusses sowie des Geheimdienst- und des Kontrollausschusses stellten eine sogenannte Subpoena aus, also eine rechtlich verbindliche Aufforderung, das Material zu übermitteln.

27.09.2019 - 13:50 [ Truthdig ]

The Problem With Impeachment

Impeachment is about cosmetics. It is about replacing the public face of empire with a political mandarin such as Joe Biden, himself steeped in corruption and obsequious service to the rich and corporate power, who will carry out the same suicidal policies with appropriate regal decorum.