Trump threatened with THIRD impeachment by widely mocked liberal as his colleagues roll their eyes
The 77-year-old Green has formally tried to impeach Trump at least five times from 2017 until now, and he said he's planning on doing it again, vowing a sixth attempt on Monday. There are no comparisons in modern U.S. history, as no lawmaker has filed so many impeachment articles against any individual president.
Trump has been twice impeached by the U.S. House but was acquitted by the U.S. Senate in both instances.
'There are no circumstances that will prevent me from continuing to challenge the bigotry emanating from the presidency,' Green said at an event in Illinois. 'I will not stop. And I promise you, this President, he's going to be brought down.'
'He has to be brought down,' the veteran lawmaker continued. 'I'm talking about politically, we will bring him down. He will be impeached again.'
The Democrat's announcement indicates that once Congress returns from the August recess that he may introduce a formal resolution to impeach Trump.
But without control of the lower chamber, the Democrat's impeachment pursuit won't have legs.
If Green makes good on his pledge, it would be the third time he's moved to impeach Trump this year. These are in addition to his three previously failed attempts to impeach the Republican during his first term in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Green filed articles in May citing Trump as a threat to democracy, and in June, he filed articles against the president for bombing nuclear sites in Iran. Few of his colleagues joined his bandwagon to nowhere.
The effort over Iran outraged many Democrats, with one privately venting to Axios that the effort was 'a completely unserious and selfish move.'
Even veteran party bosses like Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi voted against the Iran impeachment. Every impeachment effort that Green has put forward to remove Trump has been voted down by Democrats.
A spokesperson for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail's questions about Green's latest bid to remove Trump.
Green has served a deep blue portion of Houston for 20 years, but that district is threatened now that Republican legislators in Texas are remaking the congressional boundaries in the state ahead of schedule.
To stop the Texas legislator from redistricting, Democrats in the statehouse fled to liberal strongholds across the country, primarily to Illinois, where a defiant Green gave a speech Monday promising to try and oust Trump again.
There have been certain lawmakers who have featured prominently as antagonists to presidents, like how Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Adam Schiff had big roles during more serious movement to remove Trump during his first term.
But Green stands alone in the number of formal attempts he has put forward to impeach Trump.
In fact, Green's fourth formally introduced article of impeachment hasn't even been taken up.
Green earned additional notoriety earlier this year when he heckled and interrupted the president during his address to Congress.
During Trump's early March speech, Green stood up and yelled at the president while waving his cane in the air.
The elderly lawmaker told the president he had no 'mandate' and was quickly booed by Republicans before House Speaker Mike Johnson instructed the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove the unruly Democrat.
The president has taken notice of his Democratic detractor.
'Nobody takes him seriously,' Trump said of Green to Fox News Digital shortly after the interrupted speech. 'He is an embarrassment to Congress but a much bigger embarrassment to the Democrats.'
The president said Green 'should be forced to pass an IQ test because he is a low IQ individual, and we don't need low IQ individuals in Congress.'
In the interview, Trump called on Green to be censured, and he ultimately was, with some Democrats siding with Republicans to shame the viciously anti-Trump lawmaker.
The rare and distinctly lamentable honor seemingly has not thrown Green off the scent for Trump's removal, however.
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