President Donald Trump is no stranger to impeachment, in fact, he’s the one that brought the practice back into vogue.
No person in U.S. history has ever been targeted for removal like the 45th and 47th president. The only other presidents to share the unsavory distinction of being impeached are Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
Trump has unceremoniously been the only president impeached twice. Those are just the ‘official’ attempts – the real number of impeachment efforts is greater than that.
Democrats, under former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, charged the president with obstruction of justice regarding a phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
They also charged him with inciting an insurrection resulting in the January 6 Capitol riot. In both instances the Senate acquitted the president of any wrongdoing.
And as of Monday, a third effort to impeach President Trump is underway.
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., a low-profile rank-and-file member, proposed seven articles of impeachment against the 78-year-old, including bribery, abuse of power, obstruction of justice and more.
But that’s not all – Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who famously waved his cane and disrupted Trump’s joint address to Congress earlier this year, said Thursday he would bring additional articles of impeachment against Trump in coming days.
President Trump slammed the recent impeachment efforts against him, calling the lawmakers behind them ‘no name … whackjobs’
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., announced he is bringing articles of impeachment against Trump in a video address posted on Monday
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, shown above heckling Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress in March, said on Thursday he will soon unveil articles of impeachment against the Republican. His articles would come in addition to those from Thanedar
‘The Democrats are really out of control,’ the president wrote Friday on Truth Social. ‘They have lost everything, especially their minds! These radical left lunatics are into the ‘Impeachment thing’ again.’
‘They have already got two ‘No Name,’ little respected Congressmen, total whackjobs both, throwing the ‘Impeachment’ of Donald J. Trump around, for about the 20th time, even though they have no idea for what I would be Impeached,’ the post continued.
‘Maybe it should be for cleaning up the mess that they left us on the border, or the highest inflation in our country’s history or, perhaps, it should be the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, or Russia, Russia, Russia/Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, or the Attack of Israel on October 7th that only proceeded because they allowed Iran to regain great wealth,’ the lengthy post stated.
Out of the 260 Democratic lawmakers currently serving on Capitol Hill, the overwhelming majority has at least voted to impeach Trump once, and scores have voted to oust the Republican twice.
In 2019, all Democrats, 222 lawmakers, voted to impeach Trump on both articles related to his conversation with Zelensky. In the upper chamber, 47 senators voted to convict.
In 2021, nearly 230 Democrats voted to impeach Trump for his conduct regarding January 6. In the Senate, 48 Democrats voted to impeach the president in addition to seven Republicans.
Just about 180 House Democrats who voted to impeach Trump years ago remain on Capitol Hill today. In the Senate, 41 Democrats who voted to impeach Trump remain.
To say that Democrats on Capitol Hill are open to impeaching Trump is an understatement, about 85 percent of them already have tried, according to an analysis by the Daily Mail.
Trump called the Democrats impeaching him ‘lowlifes’ in a recent Truth Social post
Green yelling at Trump during his joint address
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addresses the press after the House voted 230 to 197 and 229 to 198 to impeach President Trump on two articles of impeachment charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December 2019
And though Democrats have failed to oust the Republican in their first two attempts, their appetite for Trump’s removal still appears to be ravenous.
‘The President is attacking me because I filed Articles of Impeachment, asking ‘What the hell did I do?’ It’s all in my seven articles of impeachment,’ Thanedar posted on X clarifying his rationale for bringing the articles.
‘Defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling … dismantling federal agencies … imposing damaging tariffs … violating First Amendment rights,’ and more were among the Democrat’s complaints.
‘This is not normal. Impeachment is how we fight back. I will always defend the Constitution!’ the Michigan Democrat’s post concluded.
Trump, hitting back at the claims, argued the Democrats are impeaching him because they ‘just want to do it.’
Alexander Vindman (L) filed a whistleblower report about the phone call between Trump and Zelensky that later served as the basis for the Republican’s first impeachment in 2019
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on December 17, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
‘The Republicans should start to think about expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes that they have committed, especially around election time(s),’ Trump’s sprawling Friday Truth Social post continued.
‘These are total lowlifes, who hate our country, and everything it stands for. Perhaps we should start playing this game on them, and expel Democrats for the many crimes that they have committed — And these are real crimes,’ Trump added.
Despite their threats, Thanedar and Green face a rough road to accomplishing their twin goals of impeaching Trump.
Unlike in 2019 and 2021, the House of Representatives, where all articles of impeachment begin, is now under the control of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson.
As speaker, Johnson has firm grip on what bills are allowed on the House, effectively giving him control over what does and does not receive a vote.
The two Democrats, therefore, would need, as Johnson may say it, an act of God to have their fringe attempts ever see a vote in committee, let alone a full vote on the House floor.
Even if God does answer the Democrats prayers, and the vote gets a hypothetical vote on the House floor, it would surely be defeated by the Republican majority in the chamber.
And, even if the bill somehow did pass in the GOP-held House, the Republican majority in the Senate would likely dispel the charges immediately.