Steyer pressures Congress to impeach

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17. Former GOP Congressman Calls for Impeachment

... The first prominent Republican to break through that wall and call for Trump’s impeachment was House Freedom Caucus co-founder Rep. Justin Amash, who last weekend said in a series of tweets that Trump had “engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.”

Amash’s defiance in the eyes of the pro-Trump GOP brought him a new primary challenger, the severance of his financial backing, a rabid Trump tweet (of course), and a weak counterargument by Sen. Mitt Romney, of all people.

This week, however, another high-profile Republican—former Missouri Rep. Tom Coleman—spoke out about Trump’s alleged crimes, calling for both the president and Vice President Mike Pence to be impeached.

Coleman, who served in Congress for nearly two decades before becoming a lobbyist and university professor, published a scathing Op-Ed on Thursday in The Kansas City Star that called Trump’s presidency “illegitimate,” based on findings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the Trump campaign had urged a foreign adversary to defraud U.S. voters. ...

https://splinternews.com/former-gop-congressman-calls-for-impeachment-of-trump-a-1835028389