‘Dumbest F**king Thing’: Democrats Are Absolutely Furious at Lawmaker Trying to Impeach Trump

Democratic Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar brought seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the House floor Tuesday night, forcing the House to vote on them by Thursday and placing him in a precarious position among other Democrats.

Thanedar’s articles of impeachment, which he announced on April 28, have reportedly been met with rebuke from several of his fellow Democrats, with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark saying party leadership plans to block the measures. Meanwhile, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents a neighboring district, sharply criticized Thanedar’s legislative record, without appearing to mention the articles, and endorsed his far-left primary opponent Democratic Michigan State Rep. Donavan McKinney.

While on the floor, Thanedar noticed his impeachment files as privileged, forcing the House into a Thursday deadline to vote on them. However, it is likely lawmakers from both parties will back a motion to table the impeachment articles, effectively killing Thanedar’s effort.

Clark, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said in a Democratic Caucus meeting that the party’s leadership in the lower chamber plans to table the backbench Michigan lawmaker’s articles on Wednesday afternoon, NOTUS reported citing two people familiar with her comments.

Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who notably served as a manager during Trump’s 2019 impeachment, called Thanedar’s measures “idiotic” and “horrible” during the same meeting, according to an anonymous source quoted by NOTUS. (Read more from “‘Dumbest F**king Thing’: Democrats Are Absolutely Furious at Lawmaker Trying to Impeach Trump” HERE)

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