[BREAKING] TX Rep floats impeachment over Trump wiretapping claim
Chron – U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s repeated claims he was wire tapped by former President Barack Obama could provide grounds for impeachment if a Monday hearing with the FBI director does not produce evidence to substantiate the allegation.
James Comey is scheduled to testify before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee at 9 a.m. Monday, and Jackson Lee said she expects lawmakers to demand an answer on whether the president had grounds for accusing his predecessor of a crime.
The president tweeted on March 4 to his nearly 27 million followers he had “just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump tower.” He reiterated the claim in two more tweets that accused Obama of “a new low” and called him a “bad (or sick) guy.”
There’s new life in the accountability movement! The People v Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way (Chelsea Green) has just been published. Author Charlotte Dennett will be in Cambridge January 20 at the Harvard Bookstore at 7 pm to discuss it and the following day, January 21, at 7 p.m. in New York City at the 92nd St Y. Vincent Bulgiosi is flying all the way from the west coast and will join Naomi Wolf in helping her launch the book on the 21st.