JUST IN! Congress DEMANDS Impeachment or Resignation of Trump!!

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Congressional Democrats are now calling for President Trump's removal from office following his extreme threats against Iran. They say the ceasefire isn't enough and are calling for Congress to reign in the Trump administration.

[00:00:12]>> Well, a two-we ceasefire is insufficient. We need a permanent end to Donald Trump's reckless war of choice.

[00:00:19]House Democrats have demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson immediately reconvene the House back into session so we can move a war powers.

[00:00:29]>> Ladies and gentlemen, >> yesterday more than 70 lawmakers in separate posts on social media suggested the president's cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment and admit he's unfit for office. Congress should pass impeachment articles and vote to convict him or both. During his first term, he was impeached twice and acquitted. Over 100 members of Congress have now gone on public record demanding that Donald Trump leave the presidency through resignation, impeachment, or the invocation of the 25th Amendment. This is not fringe noise. This is not a handful of backbench members venting frustration. This is a substantial and growing block of elected representatives standing before cameras, delivering floor speeches, filing formal legal documents, and saying in plain, unmistakable language that the president of the United States is unfit to continue serving and must go. I rise to announce that at this moment in time I have filed HRES 537 because I believe that the president of the United States has committed an impeachable act.

[00:01:34]HRES 57 addresses abuse of presidential powers by disregarding the separation of powers, devolving American democracy into an authoritarian an authoritarian an authoritarian government usurping congressional power to declare war. Mr. Speaker, I take no delight in what I'm doing.

[00:02:04]I do this because I love my country. I do this because I understand that the Constitution is going to be meaningful or it will be meaningless. I do it because I understand that the president of the United States of America has a duty to consult Congress before taking this country to war. I do it because no one person should have the power to take over 300 million people to war without consulting with the Congress of the United States of America. I do this because if I do not, this authoritarian president that we currently have will continue to assume power. He has already instigated an assault on the Citadel of Democracy, the capital of the United States of America. He went so far as to pardon the persons who were actually involved in the assault. He has denied persons due process of the law. I believe that if we do not take immediate action, this authoritarian president will not only devolve the country into authoritarianism, I believe he is a would-be dictator who would become a dictator. So I today announce that later today I will bring these articles of impeachment to the floor and I will call for a vote. I believe that the hour of decision is upon us and we all have to decide. Are we going to go down and choose the path of democracy or we allow ourselves to choose the low road of autocracy? I believe that this country has come too far to allow a single person to declare war without conferring with the Congress of the United States of America. This is where I stand. This is what I will do.

[00:03:57]and I do it in the name of my country that I love dearly. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I yield back the balance of my time.

[00:04:03]>> What makes this moment genuinely unprecedented in American history is not simply that members of Congress oppose the president or disagree with his policies. Opposition is normal.

[00:04:12]Disagreement is expected. What makes this different is that over a hundred lawmakers have moved beyond policy criticism into the territory of removal, filing formal articles of impeachment that accuse the president of conduct so severe it threatens the continued existence of democratic governance itself. But we don't see any charges, arrests, or investigations in the United States. What do we see? We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas. It's fine to be proud of this country, but we should be proud of this country because we have a system of justice that works.

[00:04:49]And yet, we do not. Who are the men that should be investigated? I'll name them right here. Leon Black. You don't even have to see past the redactions to see that this man needs to be investigated.

[00:05:03]Jess Staley, accused of terrible things.

[00:05:08]It's right there in the files. Why is he not being investigated? And Leslie Wexner, why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex trafficking case and then tell him, according to him, that they had no questions for him. These are not vague expressions of concern. These are specific, documented, legally framed charges written in language the founders would have recognized as describing exactly what they designed the impeachment power to address.

[00:05:40]Representative Al Green has become the defining face of this persistent accountability effort, filing impeachment resolution after impeachment resolution throughout this year with a determination that refuses to be broken by procedural defeat. He introduced his comprehensive articles charging the president on seven separate counts that read like a prosecutor's closing argument against the entire Trump presidency. Obstruction of justice forms the first charge alleging the president interfered with investigations designed to hold him accountable. Why is that?

[00:06:09]Well, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ and the FBI to disclose to us their internal memos and emails about how they made those decisions whether to prosecute or not prosecute.

[00:06:22]Yet, they have not delivered those memos. And we still don't have the memos and documents and emails from 2008 to explain why Jeffrey Epstein was given such a light sentence in what would have been an open andsh shut case of child sex trafficking which allowed him to go back and recommmit these terrible crimes, create hundreds of more victims and ensnare so many other people in his conspiracy.

[00:06:55]Where are those documents that describe those decisions? We need justice. We want the Department of Justice to get to work and that's what they need to do now.

[00:07:07]Madam Speaker, I rise today to let the American people know that this government is under siege. All three branches of this government is under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bear.

[00:07:20]They spent over $9 million lobbying the executive branch and the legislative branch so that they don't have to be liable for any damages that their herbicide causes, otherwise known as Roundup.

[00:07:35]And they're having some success. Now, they haven't had any success yet in this chamber to get that immunity. They've had some success in the state legislatures, which are also under siege, to get this immunity from liability. Look, the Constitution guarantees people a trial if they've been harmed. Why are we contemplating going against the Constitution? The attorney general has opined favorably for this German company in front of the Supreme Court about getting rid of any liability that they should have for any damages.

[00:08:09]And the most recent thing that we've seen, the executive branch, by the way, the president's chief of staff and the president's attorney general worked for one of the lobby biggest lobbying firms that's received hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars from Bayer.

[00:08:26]And maybe that's why we've seen an executive order that says that the production of this chemical from this German company is a is a national defense priority.

[00:08:39]And we know why they're doing that. It's to keep them from having any liability.

[00:08:45]Everybody in this country deserves their day in court. This is wrong.

[00:08:51]We shouldn't subcome to the lobbyists.

[00:08:53]Not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress, and not in the state legislatures. But there's a lot of money at play, and I implore my colleagues to resist it and do not give them immunity. and I yield back.

[00:09:10]>> Usurping Congress's power of the purse is the second, accusing him of spending money without legislative authorization in direct violation of the separation of powers. Abuse of trade and war powers comes third, targeting his tariff policies and military decisions as unconstitutional executive overreach.

[00:09:27]First amendment violations form the fourth article, alleging systematic attacks on press freedoms and free speech. Creation of an unlawful office is the fifth charge, pointing specifically to Elon Musk being given unconstitutional control over government agencies and the personal data of American citizens. Bribery and corruption form the sixth article, reviving allegations of self-deing and public trust converted to private profit. And then there is the seventh charge, the one that carries the gravest constitutional weight of all, tyranny.

[00:09:56]That word appears in a formal impeachment resolution filed in the United States House of Representatives as an official charge against the sitting president. Not campaign rhetoric, not cable news hyperbole, a legal document filed by a sitting member of Congress accusing the president of the exact evil the American Revolution was fought to escape. The founders designed separated powers, federalism, the Bill of Rights, and the impeachment mechanism itself specifically to prevent tyranny from taking root on American soil. To formally charge a sitting president with tyranny is to declare that all of those safeguards have failed simultaneously and that only removal now remains as the remedy. The resolution states explicitly that these high crimes warrant impeachment, trial, and removal from office. There is no ambiguity about what its authors are demanding. They want this presidency to end. Green did not stop with that filing. As new controversies erupted, he introduced another resolution focused specifically on Trump's alleged abuse of war powers and what the document describes as efforts to devolve American democracy into authoritarianism. That phrase, devolve democracy into authoritarianism, is a formal congressional accusation that the president is actively working to transform the American system of government into something fundamentally different and fundamentally threatening to everything this country was built to be. The Republican majority killed it procedurally without substantive debate.

[00:11:17]The charges were disposed of through parliamentary maneuver rather than engaged with on their merits. Then came the most recent filing carrying the most alarming language yet. Following new confrontations over court defiance and violent rhetoric, Green filed again, this time with language that states directly on the face of the document that Trump will continue to promote violence, engender hate, undermine democracy, and dissolve the republic if left in office. Dissolve the republic.

[00:11:44]written into an official congressional document by a sitting member of Congress as a formal accusation against the president of the United States. The vote that followed this filing revealed both the reach and the limitation of what the accountability movement has built.

[00:12:00]140 members of the House of Representatives voted to advance the impeachment articles, nearly a third of the entire chamber, a substantial block of lawmakers who examined the evidence and concluded that impeachment proceedings needed to move forward. In any previous era of American politics, 140 votes for impeachment would have triggered a national crisis. It would have dominated the news for weeks. It would have created enormous pressure on the president's own party to at minimum engage seriously with the substance of the charges. But the Republican majority tabled the resolution through procedural motion, refusing to allow a vote on whether the president was promoting violence and working to dissolve the republic. The charges were simply too serious to be debated, so they were buried without discussion. Beyond the formal impeachment filings, the broader call for Trump's departure has reached numbers that would have ended any previous American presidency. Tracking organizations have documented that more than 120 members of the House and at least seven senators have publicly stated Trump should resign. These are not whispers in private conversations or anonymous quotes to reporters. These are elected officials standing in front of cameras, delivering floor speeches, and saying in plain language that the president should step down because he is unfit to continue. Some have invoked the 25th amendment as an alternative path, arguing the cabinet and vice president should declare the president unable to discharge his duties. But the cabinet is filled with loyalists appointed precisely because their loyalty was guaranteed. The vice president owes his position and political future to Trump's continued favor. That path remains politically unrealistic even as lawmakers continue to publicly suggest it deserves consideration. And therein lies the central crisis that this entire situation exposes. The impeachment power can only function if members of Congress are willing to use it against presidents of their own party. The founders did not design a system that assumed virtue.

[00:13:49]They designed a system that assumed ambition would check ambition, that institutional loyalty would sometimes override partisan loyalty, that members of Congress would see themselves as legislators first and partisans second.

[00:14:02]The current Republican majority has demonstrated conclusively that this assumption does not hold. Party loyalty overrides institutional responsibility every single time. The president can be formally accused of tyranny by over a hundred of his own colleagues and the response from his party is not to investigate the charges but to table them without discussion and move on as if nothing happened. The danger of this precedent extends far beyond Trump himself. And that is the part that should concern every American regardless of where they stand politically. Once it is firmly established that a president whose party controls Congress cannot be impeached regardless of what he does, the deterrent effect of the impeachment mechanism disappears entirely. Hit the like button, subscribe, and ring the bell because we are covering every single development in this as it unfolds. See you in the next one. Stay safe.