No fewer than 100,000 Americans are said too have appended their signature in a move to seek for the impeachment of the new American President, Donald Trump. The campaign is being spearheaded by Civil rights groups, among which are the Free Speech for People and the RootsAction, both of them non-partisan and non-profit organization.
Information said that since the drive named ‘ImpeachTrumpNow’ started, the petition has received over 100,000 signatures in support of the impeachment move
The homepage of the site says: “Sign here to impeach Donald Trump now.”
It added: “from the moment he assumed the office, President Donald Trump has been in direct violation of the US Constitution. The President is not above the law. We will not allow President Trump to profit from the presidency at the expense of our democracy.
“We are calling upon Congress to pass a resolution calling for the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of Donald John Trump, President of the United States,” said Free Speech for People and RootsAction on the website.
The “Impeach Trump Now” campaign describes what the nation is witnessing with Trump to be worse than Nixon and the Watergate scandal, in which former President Richard Nixon was found tampering with the election. (Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.) They claim that President Trump’s personal and business holdings in the United States and abroad are unprecedented conflicts of interest and therefore are grounds for impeachment.
Trump last year during the campaign sent out a tweet asking if a president can be impeached for gross incompetence
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is expected to sign a number of executive orders on Wednesday which would restrict immigration from Syria and six other Middle Eastern or African countries.
Another one of the orders will reportedly block visas from being issued to Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Trump’s purported restrictions may also include a temporary ban on admitting refugees from countries until the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security can increase the intensity of vetting. [myad]
