摘要:So far, 139 currently-serving House Democrats and other notable Dems that have openly come out in favor of impeaching Trump.
Internal tensions over whether to impeach President Donald Trump are brewing among House Democrats, and more members are openly coming out in favor of impeachment with every passing day.
The fervor for impeachment has only intensified as the Trump administration ramped up its stonewalling of Congress' attempts to investigate the president since the release of the special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have indicated they believe impeachment would be too divisive.
On May 29, Mueller gave a press conference at the DOJ announcing his formal resignation, re-iterating the conclusions of his report's findings, and declining to voluntarily testify before Congress.
Mueller made it clear in his remarks that his office could not have indicted Trump because of existing DOJ policy, leaving the next steps up to Congress.
Here are the 108 currently-serving House Democrats and nine additional Democratic presidential candidates who have openly come out in favor of beginning an impeachment inquiry.
Internal tensions over whether to impeach President Donald Trump are brewing among House Democrats — and more members are openly coming out in favor of impeachment with every passing day.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan introduced a resolution in favor of impeachment in late March with just a few cosponsors, but the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report from his nearly two-year-long investigations and its aftermath have increased the appetite for impeaching Trump.
The report did not come to a “traditional prosecutorial decision” as to whether Trump obstructed the Mueller probe and other federal investigations involving him, but laid out 11 possible incidents of obstruction and left it to Congress to decide.
The fervor for impeachment has only intensified as the Trump administration ramped up its stonewalling of Congress' attempts to investigate Trump since the report's release.
On May 29, Mueller gave a press conference at the DOJ announcing his formal resignation, re-iterating the conclusions of his report's findings, and declining to voluntarily testify before Congress.
Mueller made it explicitly clear that the report did not exonerate Trump, and that his office had no ability to charge Trump with a crime given existing DOJ policy prohibiting prosecutors from indicting a sitting president — leaving the next steps up to Congress.
While Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats say they believe an impeachment inquiry would divide the country and end up playing into Trump's hands, a consensus is forming among other Democrats that impeachment is a necessary next step.
Democratic leaders came under more pressure to consider impeachment when Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a former Republican turned Independent, risked his seat and his political career to call for impeaching Trump.
Here are the 139 currently-serving House Democrats and other major Dems who have openly come out in favor of beginning an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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