Democrat Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said Tuesday that her colleague filing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump is a “distraction.”
Democratic Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar announced Monday that he filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump, which included accusations of abusing executive and trade powers and defying Congress by removing their power of the purse. Dingell told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing that her colleague’s attempt to impeach Trump is distracting the Democratic Party from discussing kitchen table issues.
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“I’m gonna be very blunt that we have to be making sure that people are seeing what we are doing. I don’t agree with my colleague on what he did. I think it’s a distraction. I think we need to be focused on the issues that people talk about at the kitchen table every night and show them what they’re doing. I think this next month, we’re gonna be very focused on protecting people’s healthcare, making sure that we keep rural hospitals operating, that our children and our seniors are gonna have access to the healthcare that they need and be taken care of in their retirement. That’s what we need to be focused on and delivering.”
Thanedar accused Trump of defying a Supreme Court ruling which ordered that the administration must “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 member deported to El Salvador. The congressman said the alleged defiance was the “final straw,” stating that Trump must be impeached.
“Trump has already done real damage to our democracy by defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling. That has to be the final straw. It’s time we impeach Donald J. Trump,” Thanedar said.
While the Trump administration stated they had mistakenly deported Garcia, they maintained that he should remain in El Salvador due to his alleged MS-13 association and past deportation orders against him from 2019. Following the deportation of Garcia, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on April 14 that he will not smuggle Garcia back into the U.S.
Democrat Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff said at a Friday town hall that Trump has “exceeded any prior standard for impeachment.” In the House of Representatives, Democrat Texas Rep. Al Green announced in February that he would move to impeach Trump just three weeks after he began his second term.
Green further told reporters on April 5 that he will bring articles of impeachment against the president in the next 30 days, stating that he does not deserve to hold public office.
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