Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who announced late last month that he had filed articles of impeachment against President Trump, moved on Tuesday to force an impeachment vote against the president.
Thanedar’s move will result in a House vote on his resolution featuring seven articles of impeachment by Thursday by way of House rules. The Michigan Democrat’s resolution will most likely not make much headway in the Republican-controlled House, and his Tuesday move ruffled some of his fellow Democratic lawmakers’ feathers, according to Axios.
“This is the dumbest f***ing thing. Utterly selfish behavior,” a House Democrat said of Thanedar’s move in a recent Axios report, with another calling it “a waste of f***ing time.”
Quickly after it was announced, three House Democrats requested to be removed as co-sponsors of Thanedar’s resolution, signaling that many Democrats did not want to go towards attempting to remove Trump from office.
“When Trump ignores the Constitution, Congress, and the courts, he is not ‘fighting for America.’ He is tearing it down and endangering our democracy,” Thanedar said in his April announcement of his articles of impeachment.
Trump even called out Thanedar during a recent Michigan rally, saying, “They did it again.”
“Some guy that I’ve never heard of … is he a congressman? This guy, he said … ‘ladies and gentlemen, I am going to start the impeachment of Donald Trump,’” Trump added during the rally. “What the hell did I do? Here we go again.”
The Hill has reached out to Thanedar’s office and the White House for comment.
