Republican lawmaker files articles of impeachment against President Biden
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by JAMEL VALENCIA | The National Desk Fri, May 10th 2024 at 11:11 AM
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his threat to withhold offensive weapons from Israel, according to FOX News.
The legislation accused Biden abusing his "presidential power."
"In violation of his oath to faithfully execute the office of the president and to uphold the constitution, President Biden abused the powers of his office by soliciting a "quid pro quo" with Israel while leveraging vital military aid for policy changes. This egregious action not only compromised the credibility of the United States but also undermined the interests of our longstanding ally, Israel. Therefore, President Biden's conduct warrants impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification from holding any future office under the United States," Mills said in a statement.
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Well. the idiots did the dastardly deed.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 7: Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) speaks during a news conference with families of hostages held by Hama in Gaza, in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. Family members of people kidnapped on October 7 in Israel joined House Republican leaders to plead for their release and for continued support from the United States for Israel's war against Hamas. (Photo by Drew
WASHINGTON (TND) — A Florida congressman formally filed articles of impeachment against the President of the United States on Friday.
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Of course, Republicans will find some excuse to say it's not the same thing. Murdcch's Wall Street Journal already did.'
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Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel
By Peter Baker
The New York Times
May 10, 2024
Updated 12:17 p.m. ET
The president was livid. He had just been shown pictures of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.
The president was Ronald Reagan, the year was 1982, and the battlefield was Lebanon, where Israelis were attacking Palestinian fighters. The conversation Mr. Reagan had with Prime Minister Menachem Begin that day, Aug. 12, would be one of the few times aides ever heard the usually mild-mannered president so exercised.
“It is a holocaust,” Mr. Reagan told Mr. Begin angrily. Mr. Begin, whose parents and brother were killed by the Nazis, snapped back, “Mr. President, I know all about a holocaust.” Nonetheless, Mr. Reagan retorted, it had to stop. Mr. Begin heeded the demand. Twenty minutes later, he called back and told the president that he had ordered a halt to the shelling. “I didn’t know I had that kind of power,” Mr. Reagan marveled to aides afterward.
It would not be the only time he would use it to rein in Israel. In fact, Mr. Reagan used the power of American arms several times to influence Israeli war policy, at different points ordering warplanes and cluster munitions to be delayed or withheld. His actions take on new meaning four decades later, as President Biden delays a shipment of bombs and threatens to withhold other offensive weapons from Israel if it attacks Rafah, in southern Gaza.
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