The calls to remove Trump came after he threatened to wipe out Iranian 'civilization'
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“Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now,” Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado posted on X.
The announcement of the impeachment request came after Trump issued an 8:00 pm Tuesday deadline for Iran to surrender, saying that he would erase an entire civilization if Tehran did not agree to his terms for a deal.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will,” the president wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Trump threatened to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants, which could lead the Iranian economy and society to collapse, but decided to extend the deadline for two weeks at the last minute.
Democratic Senator Ed Markey called Trump's post “completely unstable and perilous.”
“The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization,” Markey stated.
The White House responded by calling Markey's remarks “pathetic.”
“25th Amendment RIGHT NOW! Trump is too unhinged, dangerous, and deranged to have the nuclear codes!” stated Democratic Congressman Mark Pocan in response to Trump's genocidal statement.
The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution says that to impeach a president and remove him from office, a majority of lawmakers in the Congress and two-thirds of lawmakers in the Senate must vote to approve the action.
Congressman John Larson of Connecticut filed 13 articles of impeachment against Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Larson accused Trump of a “serial usurpation of the congressional war power” and “commission of murder, war crimes, and piracy” committed amid attacks ordered by Trump and Hegseth against Iran, Venezuela, and in international waters against alleged drug-running boats and elsewhere.
Democratic lawmakers initiated impeachment proceedings against Trump twice during his first term as president. However, each effort to remove him from office was ultimately unsuccessful.
“After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide. It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office,” stated Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic lawmaker from Michigan.
Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury called for help from her Republican counterparts.
“It's time to invoke the 25th. But we can't do it alone – we need our Republican colleagues to do the right thing, for this country and for the world,” she stated.
Notably, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, did not call to remove Trump from office, stating only that, “It's time for every single Republican to put patriotic duty over party and stop the madness.”
New York is a stronghold of the US-Jewish establishment, which has expressed enthusiastic support for Trump's unprovoked war in Iran, launched on 28 February in partnership with Israel.
In contrast, US Jews as a whole are less supportive of Trump's war, preferring negotiations and deadly economic sanctions as tools to eliminate Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
A poll conducted by J Street, a liberal pro-Israel lobby group, found that 60 percent of US Jews oppose “the US military action against Iran.”
Nearly two-thirds, or 63 percent, agree that “concerns about Iran's nuclear program were best solved through diplomacy and economic sanctions.”
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