Trump impeachment: on Civil Rights


Beto O`Rourke: Impeachment necessary to signal this can't happen again

Q: What about Trump's willingness to take foreign information?

O'ROURKE: If there are no consequences, then we will have set the precedent that it is OK to accept help from a foreign government. Impeachment is incredibly important to get to the facts, but also to send the signal that this can never happen again. It's the only way that we're going to be able to meet the challenges that we face. It's the only way that we're going to be able to maintain our system of government.

Source: CNN "SOTU" 2019 interview on impeaching Trump Jun 16, 2019

Donald Trump: Skipped 2019 NAACP meeting, due to "format" disagreements

President Donald Trump says he won't address the NAACP convention because of changes in the date and format of an appearance. Trump says that "I very much wanted to go" speak to the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization as members gather next week in Detroit. He says an agreed-upon date for his appearance was changed and "unfortunately, they want to do it in the form of a question and answer." Trump says he agreed to deliver a speech.

Trump often speaks about policies he says are helping African Americans, including low unemployment and sentencing reform. Several Democratic and one other Republican presidential candidate are slated to participate in an NAACP's forum on July 24, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. [The NAACP Convention voted to impeach Trump].

Source: Detroit Free Press on impeaching Trump Jul 18, 2019

Rudy Giuliani: Arizona poll workers observed changing votes

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani urged the Republican legislators to get to the bottom of the fraud, asserting that "You also had numerous situations of your workers, your citizens, observing the poll officials helping people vote to the point of telling them who to vote for. "Poll workers being observed changing votes, taking ambiguous votes and making sure they were cast for Biden," Giuliani said. [No evidence was ever found to support this claim--Ed.].
Source: The New American on impeaching Trump Dec 1, 2020

Thom Tillis: Supports eparations as a bipartisan process

Republican Senator Thom Tillis is working with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on a bill which would allow special counsel Robert Mueller a 10-day window to fight a potential removal by the Trump administration.

It was Tillis himself who first proposed the bill to protect Mueller in a conversation with Coons last summer, an important bipartisan partnership that's survived tough battles over taxes and health care.

Sen.Coons (D-DE) was struck by Tillis' fight for reparations for black victims of a North Carolina eugenics program. And Tillis was impressed that Coons was willing to fend off Democrats who wanted to pile on to the special counsel bill and turn it into a partisan attack on Trump. "He was pretty clear," Coons said, recalling how Tillis threatened to drop his support unless each new Democratic co-sponsor was matched by a Republican.

Source: Politico.com on Impeachment Proceedings against Trump Apr 16, 2018

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