Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) is introducing articles of impeachment against Donald Trump because Trump won’t suspend the Constitutional rights of the alt-right:
Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced Thursday he is introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump following the violence in Virginia.
Mr. Cohen, a Democrat, said Mr. Trump failed the “presidential test of moral leadership” in the wake of the bloody clashes between white nationalist groups and rival protesters in Charlottesville.
“I have expressed great concerns about President Trump’s ability to lead our country in the Resolution of No Confidence (H.Res. 456) that I introduced in July with 29 of my colleagues; however, after the President’s comments on Saturday, August 12 and again on Tuesday, August 15 in response to the horrific events in Charlottesville, I believe the President should be impeached and removed from office,” Mr. Cohen said in a release.
“Instead of unequivocally condemning hateful actions by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Klansmen following a national tragedy, the President said ‘there were very fine people on both sides,’” he said. “There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen.”
That of course is hyperbolic, highly inflammatory and outright false. We have already shown that there were people not Neo-Nazis or Klansmen who were in Charlottesville to protest the removal of statuary. From the NY Times, no less. His words of “moral leadership” are hollow and vapid. Cohen asserts that Trump cannot discern the difference between a Nazi and a protester.
He added, “What happened in Charlottesville showed that the president can’t discern the difference between a domestic terrorist and a protester. He can’t distinguish between citizens, Americans who are objecting to abhorrent behavior of Klansmen and Nazis and Nazis and Nazis and Klansmen. That demonstration in Charlottesville reminded me of Kristallnacht in 1938 in Germany. It reminded me of Klan rallies with the torches. Those people were yelling, ‘Jews will not take our jobs.’ They do not like African-Americans. They don’t like Jews. They don’t like America.”
Not liking someone is not the same as killing them. I am no apologist for the alt-right but wow this is over the top rhetoric. The Neo-Nazis have yet to start killing any religious group en masse and the Klan wouldn’t get very far trying to lynch anyone today. The last time it did happen the Klan paid dearly for it:
The murder of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama in 1981 was the last recorded lynching in the United States.[1][2] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a young African-American man, and hung his body from a tree. One perpetrator, Henry Hays, was sentenced to death and executed in 1997, while another, James Knowles, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty and testifying against Hays. A third man was convicted as an accomplice, and a fourth indicted but he died before his case could be completed at trial.
The execution of Hays was the first in Alabama since 1913 for a white-on-black crime. It was the only execution of a KKK member during the 20th century for the murder of an African-American.[3] Donald’s mother brought a civil suit for wrongful death against the United Klans of America (UKA), to which the attackers belonged. In 1987 a jury awarded her damages of $7 million, which bankrupted the organization. This set a precedent for civil legal action for damages against other racist hate groups.
The irony is that it is Cohen who lost his grip. The media would have you believe that the protesters in Charlottesville were all clergy members and peaceful students. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
And do not be distracted from the accusation that Trump considers both the alt-right and the counter protesters to be “equal.” They clearly are not but short of committing a crime, they are equal under the law. It is irritating but not surprising that the media is not in the least interested in this concept. The President did condemn the violence but the truth is that both sides were involved in the violence and it was the counter protesters who sparked the violence when they attempted to physically block the alt-right from lawfully entering the park. I have yet to see this mentioned anywhere in the media. There were two earlier protests in Charlottesville that went on without any major conflict.
What was different this time?
If you look at the pictures of the earlier rallies, you’ll see something you didn’t see in this latest event- police presence in the middle of the event. The police in the most recent episode are absent. They were on the sidelines watching. They were not proactive. They were barely even active. The National Guard had been mobilized but they were also held back.
That’s because Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Mayor Michael Signer wanted conflict. Heather Heyer paid for that with her life. Now the blame is being placed on the alt-right and Donald Trump and don’t you dare try to argue with facts. Cohen and the left now want to exact revenge for the loss of the election. The way this is going, they won’t be satisfied until all of the alt-right are interned in concentration camps. After all, democrats are no strangers to internment.
You might notice that Cohen has more than a passing resemblance to Heinrich Himmler. The irony abounds.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
First we had a disgruntled DEM (Bernie supporter) who leaked to Wikileaks, was murdered and all we hear from Dems is, “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
Now we know that at least two of the three main leaders of the so-called “Unite-the-Right,” demonstration about the removal of a statue were DEM dirty trickster moles.
If that ever becomes common knowledge it will prove Pres Trump 100% correct: there were “good individuals” on both sides.
Those good people were the Left’s useful idiots on both sides.
Probably it was one of those good people who was run over and killed.
Notice the Left, like those Dems who worked with Seth Rich, want to move past that death and forget that person.
What happened on Kristallnacht?
Nothing like C’Ville.
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.
Over 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone) and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or damaged.
More than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps; primarily Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.
Tombstones were uprooted and graves violated. Fires were lit, and prayer books, scrolls, artwork and philosophy texts were thrown upon them, and precious buildings were either burned or smashed until unrecognisable.
You know what this sounds like?
Not what the pretend-alt-right leaders led their group to do. (meet in a park to listen to speeches)
Nope.
If Jews had been as much into statuary as, say, the Catholics were, it would have looked exactly like those from the LEFT, Dems and commies, who tore down the statue in Durham.
That’s what they w ant to do to all of us who refuse to abide by the New World Order who refuse to ecsept Global Warming/Climate Change asa fact when its all a lie all those who refuse to surrender out guns,freedom,god and who refuse to send their kids to a NRA run Indoctrination center they call Schools and those who abide by the U.S. Constitution and refuse to abide by a Useless Nations Treaties and us who refuse will be taken away by Useless Nations Blue Helmets
Cohen wants to impeach Trump because he has not as yet created a denunciation of racism that the left cannot twist into a “not enough” denunciation. This is his crime, but I doubt anyone is up to that task. However, as a comparison, there were NO calls for impeachment when Obama invited racists, promoters of racial violence and relatives of criminals into the White House!!! This was because, A) the Republicans could not take the political heat and B) because none of this was extraordinary for Obama, who had already shown himself to be a racist and promoter of political violence.
No doubt the crybaby losers will continue this for eight years.
Hey Stevie baby you have to disarm us first like all other socialist/communist regimes have done to their citizens before committing mass murder of them.
. Undermine ALL right-wing ideas as instantly illegitimate
. Alienate people on the right from society
. Justify violence against the right by antifa
Will this Democrat Rep publish or post on the internet the legal basis for his impeachment proceedings?
Today on one of the Sunday shows it was said those that came out in Boston were against what the Rally stood for.
The Antifa cant have rallies and speeches lest it be in the open what they truly stand for.
Help me out can anyone find a news agency that actually covered the rally itself and clearly shows any of the speakers? What was racist or hateful coming from any of the speakers? I cant trust any news source I need to see it with my own eyes, hear it with my own ears. There must not have been 1 word of hate or it would be all over google, CNN, MSNBC would be looping it non-stop. Not even a tiki torch? I could find coverage that a guy was wearing a MAGA hat, and why it was important to the non coverage you tell me.
When is BLM, Antifa and the rest of the far left going to demand changing the names of all the buildings named after Woodrow Wilson? What about all those buildings, etc., named after Robert (KKK) Byrd?
FDR was a racist and even his own wife disagreed with him. Lincoln desegregated the military. Wilson reversed that decision. Yet not one peep from the left about their own disgraces.
@retire05: Wilson and Roosevelt evil racists
@retire05:
Because racism is not their point. Destroying opposition to socialism and fascism is their point.
Democrats are communist, plain and simple