theHill – Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a leading candidate in the race to lead the Democratic Party, called for impeachment “investigations” over President Donald Trump‘s conduct in his first weeks in office.
“I think that Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question of impeachment,” Ellison said Wednesday night during CNN’s debate among the eight candidates to lead the Democratic National Committee.
He went on to accuse Trump of being in violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits a president from receiving payments from foreign states. In the mind of Ellison and others, Trump’s ownership of his Washington D.C. hotel, which has been frequented by foreign diplomats, puts him in violation of that law.
