LIVE: House now voting on whether to table impeachment resolution against President Trump.
"President Donald Trump's racist comments that have legitimatized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color," Green said Tuesday night on the House floor."Donald John Trump, by causing such harm to the society of the United States, is unfit to be president and warrants impeachment, trial and removal from office."
Green told reporters on Wednesday that he hoped the House would vote for impeachment, not to table or refer it to committee. He said"bigotry" qualified as a"high crime and misdemeanor," incorrectly claiming that President Andrew Johnson was impeached for his bigotry. Green rejected questions about whether he should hold on impeachment proceedings until after the testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller next week.
"The Mueller testimony has nothing to do with his bigotry. Nothing. Zero. Nada," Green said."We cannot wait. As we wait, we risk having the blood of somebody on our hands — and it could be a member of Congress." Green has been gunning to impeach Trump for years — his latest effort is his third attempt. He most recently offered articles of impeachment when Republicans controlled the House in January 2018, after the president derided immigrants from Haiti and some African countries. The House voted to table that resolution, with 121 Democrats joined 234 Republicans to effectively kill the measure.
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