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Related: About this forumWARREN: Congress Is 'Complicit' With Trump By 'Failing To Act'
'Warren: Congress is 'complicit' with Trump 'by failing to act.' The Hill, Sept. 20, 2019.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Congress as "complicit" in the latest scandal surrounding President Trump's conversations with the Ukrainian president by "failing to act" after special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trump's latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections," Warren tweeted. "Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president."
The tweet came after reports that emerged Friday revealing that Trump asked the president of Ukraine during a July phone call to investigate the son of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden.
"A president is sitting in the Oval Office, right now, who continues to commit crimes. He continues because he knows his Justice Department won't act and believes Congress won't either. Today's news confirmed he thinks he's above the law. If we do nothing, he'll be right," said Warren.
Trump has called for an investigation into Biden's ties to Ukraine during his time as vice president. Republicans have criticized his 2016 efforts to have the Ukrainian president dismiss a prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch, whose board members included his son, Hunter. No evidence has emerged to suggest Biden acted to protect his son.
But it is Trump's connection to Ukraine that have been under harsh scrutiny in recent days...
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After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trumps latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections. Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president.
4:38 PM - 20 Sep 2019
Elizabeth Warren?Verified account @ewarren · 3h3 hours ago
A president is sitting in the Oval Office, right now, who continues to commit crimes. He continues because he knows his Justice Department won't act and believes Congress wont either. Todays news confirmed he thinks hes above the law. If we do nothing, hell be right.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
blm
(113,131 posts)his recent targeting of Biden because he has a DOJ covering for him and a congress that has a majority at this time unwilling to fight tooth and nail to counter his lawlessness.
We need to add more Democrats willing to say that this latest crime is enough. He will continue to commit them, that is a certainty.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)Your post is pushing me real close to backing Liz!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)out back to the woodshed for a thumping, like the schoolteacher everyone remembers.' as a DUer said. Lol. Not a person to get on the wrong side of it seems.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)...kick Trump's silly a..!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
blm
(113,131 posts)This one has spent all of his life rigging the system to protect himself.
Hes absorbing all of DCs institutions like The Blob.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fiendish Thingy
(15,703 posts)Pelosi could learn a thing or two from Warren.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SunSeeker
(51,796 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Alhena
(3,030 posts)very nicely stated, Warren.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Demsrule86
(68,788 posts)for impeachment? And it is a no go in the Senate...I am very disappointed Warren would turn on a Democratic House...I thought she was a team player although I don't support her in the primary...General yes.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(36,216 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Through all of Trump's crimes and misdemeanors they've sat quietly by and let him run roughshod over the Constitution, the rule of law, and every moral challenge he's faced. They don't care, they never have. As long as they can stack the courts with right-wing zealots, give more tax cuts to the wealthy, and please their corporate overlords, they'll remain invisible. No big news flash here. We on DU have been saying this for the past year or so.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)The country is upside down.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Skittles
(153,298 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
nini
(16,672 posts)Because that's where the real roadblock is.
But it's easier to attack the House Democrats I guess.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
c-rational
(2,600 posts)changing my preference as we have so many good candidates. Times are a changing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden