WASHINGTON – Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas introduced a 15-page resolution to impeach President Donald Trump on the House floor, Wednesday. But the resolution died because Green failed to appear when it came time to consider the proposal.
A spokesman for Green did not answer an email that asked why the congressman stopped his resolution from being considered for a vote.
Nevertheless, Green, who promised to call for Trump’s impeachment weeks ago, caused a stir with his remarks, where he excoriated President Trump for more than 20 minutes.
Green cited Article 2, Sec. 4 of the Constitution, which stipulates that “the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Green said Trump “brought disrepute on the presidency ” and “has betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the American people.”
He also stated that President Trump has displayed “a demonstrable record of inciting white supremacy, sexism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, race-baiting and racism, by demeaning, defaming, disrespecting and disparaging women and certain minorities.”
In doing so Trump “has fueled and is fueling an alt-right hate machine…engendering racial antipathy, LGBTQ enmity, religious anxiety, stealthy sexism and dreadful xenophobia,” Green continued.
Green cited Trump’s remarks at an Alabama address when he demeaned NFL players and their mothers. The Houston congressman also blamed the president for “inciting bigotry and race-baiting and engendering racial antipathy” for his comments about Puerto Ricans and the U.S. territory’s budget in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island.
Green listed more of the president’s controversial remarks, including when he referred to alt-right groups that rallied at Charlottesville on behalf of the preservation of the Robert E. Lee Confederate statue as “very fine people.”
In a prepared statement after his resolution to impeach President Trump, Green said, “Today, I rise to use the constitutionally prescribed political process of impeachment to speak truth to the most powerful man on earth, the President of the United States of America.”