16-05-2025
Annoying Dem lawmaker who wants to impeach Trump makes hugely embarrassing gaffe on camera
A Michigan Democrat leading a rogue attempt to impeach Donald Trump struggled to name even basic details of his own district in an excruciating interview.
Congressman Shri Thanedar was confronted by independent journalist Charlie LeDuff over the weekend as he asked the Democrat a simple question about his district in the Detroit suburbs.
'What are the five Grosse Pointe cities?' LeDuff asked the lawmaker.
The Grosse Pointe cities make up much of Thanedar's 13th Congressional District, but the congressman appeared stumped when asked to simply name them.
'Well, look,' he responded with a stalling laugh. 'I'm, uh, I'm not here to answer a quiz.'
'I'm here to say that I'm going to fight for the people of Detroit,' he went on, repeatedly saying he would 'fight' for his voters without being able to name the cities where they live.
After he said again he was 'going to fight for my constituents', LeDuff began listing off the Grosse Pointe cities, leading Thanedar to incorporate them into his answer.
LeDuff appeared bemused that the lawmaker clearly didn't know the names of the cities, as he interrupted to say: 'Let me just do this real quick - Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Farms, and Grosse Pointe Shores.'
After Thanedar failed to name the cities in his own district, LeDuff also brought up a controversy from the lawmaker's past as a pharmaceutical executive.
Thanedar has been accused of abandoning over 100 dogs to starve after his company cruelly tested pharmaceuticals on them.
The Detroit congressman was behind a testing lab that shut down in 2010. The lab - AniClin Preclinical Services - was closed after its parent company, Azopharma, owned by the Democrat, went bankrupt.
Months after the New Jersey lab closed, local animal rights activists alerted authorities to 118 beagles that had been left behind locked in the facility.
LeDuff told Thanedar he was 'getting nailed with this one' as the controversy made headlines following the Democrat's attempts to impeach Trump.
'The beagles - you abandoned the beagles and left them to die in their cages at your pharmaceutical testing,' the journalist said.
Thanedar appeared lost for an answer as he smiled and responded: 'Ah, I love animals.'
Congressman Shri Thanedar impeaches Donald J. Trump.
But first, he impeaches himself.
Watch.
— Charlie LeDuff (@Charlieleduff) May 14, 2025
Thanedar has been accused of abandoning over 100 dogs to starve after his company cruelly tested pharmaceuticals on them, seen in footage of the canines being rescued
'My family loves animals, we have raised a beagle,' he said. 'Those are all, uh, you know, political attacks on me... uh, I love animals.'
When pressed for an 'explanation' to the beagle controversy, Thanedar could not offer one, but claimed the Humane Society had given him 'two awards as the best legislator in protecting animal rights.'
LeDuff showed images of the beagles being saved from Thanedar's lab and sarcastically agreed with Thanedar that it is not a big deal 'because those beagles were going to die anyway.'
The lawmaker responded again with his rehearsed line: 'Look, I love animals... thank you.'
Thanedar quickly left the interview as LeDuff asked him why other congressmembers had withdrawn support for his impeachment efforts.
It comes as even Thanedar's liberal colleagues have come out to condemn his impeachment acts as a 'waste of f***ing time.'
The Democrat proposed seven articles of impeachment against the 78-year-old president, including bribery, abuse of power, obstruction of justice and more.
'This is the dumbest f***ing thing. Utterly selfish behavior,' one anonymous Democrat told Axios of Thanedar's impeachment push. 'What a dumbs***,' said another.
Party members indicated that focusing on impeachment is unproductive as they attempt to resist Republicans' maneuvering on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill.'
Veteran Democrats reportedly ripped the impeachment plan to shreds in a closed door hearing on Wednesday, the same day the Michigan lawmaker was supposed to force further action on the impeachment, Axios reports.
They fumed with frustration over Thanedar's 'idiotic' and 'horrible' solo attempt to remove the president.
