Donald Trump Should Be Impeached Now Because "The Constitution Demands It"

Newsweek
August 12, 2018


Congress, which has the authority to begin impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump has been reluctant to act, awaiting the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's criminal investigation, among other things.

But in a new book, three veteran constitutional lawyers argue that the framers of the Constitution provided impeachment as a remedy in anticipation of a leader like Trump, and that he's committed enough offenses for removal proceedings to begin immediately.

The framers of the Constitution "were obsessed with corruption," and "to defend against this ever-present danger, they build bulwarks into the Constitution itself," the book "The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump," set for release Tuesday says:
"President Donald Trump has been violating the Constitution since the moment he took office - and since then, the corruption, abuse of power, and abuse of public trust have only gotten worse," the authors Ron Fein, John Bonifaz and Ben Clements write.

The attorneys, who work for the nonprofit "Free Speech for People," identify eight categories in which Trump "has already crossed the line into impeachable territory."

First, they say, Trump has violated the Constitution's emoluments clauses because he refused to separate himself from his companies upon being sworn in and continues to profit from [them].
"A lot of people are under the impression that the only impeachable offenses are crimes for which one could be prosecuted and imprisoned, but emoluments are a perfect example of offenses that are impeachable that are not a prosecutable crime," Fein, the nonprofit's legal director told Newsweek
"Furthermore, it is not only not a crime, but it's not part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation."

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