CBC To Take Up Trump Impeachment

Now to see if these folks actually have the balls to do something…

46 Representatives, as a block could completely derail the House. Two Senators could derail the Chumph’s plan to staff the courts with white supremacists.

They just have to be willing and have the courage to go to war.

Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans

Congressional Black Caucus has had it with Trump, plans to discuss impeachment

The Congressional Black Caucus, a formidable bloc of lawmakers with a big say in the fate of President Donald Trump and his legislation, on Monday (Aug. 21) sent him a terse, clear message: We don’t think you understand us at all. Its  chairman, Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, urged cancellation of next month’s highly anticipated meeting between White House officials and leaders of the nation’s historically black colleges, and he said he plans to have the 49-member caucus discuss whether to back Democratic-led efforts to impeach Trump.

Richmond said the president’s remarks after the deadly Aug. 12 protest in Charlottesville, Va., show he has no commitment to the schools or to African Americans. Richmond said the caucus was outraged by Trump’s assertion of “blame on both sides” for the violent Charlottesville rally dominated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

“You can make an argument based on pure competency and fitness to serve, and that’s the conversation the caucus will have,” Richmond told reporters in a conference call. The caucus includes 46 House Democrats, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, and Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.

“Am I concerned about high crimes and misdemeanors?” Richmond asked. “Absolutely. Am I concerned about this president’s fitness to serve? Absolutely.”

Republicans control 52 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and 240 of the House’s 435 seats. There’s been no GOP talk of impeachment.

Trump has received heavy criticism both inside and outside of government for not forcefully condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists in after the Charlottesville violence. He disbanded two business advisory panels after several of its members, chief executives of top U.S. companies, quit the panels because of Trump’s response to the violence.

Richmond said he does not need to wait for a caucus discussion to seek cancellation of the administration’s planned meeting with historically black colleges. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Administration officials have been planning the meeting Sept. 17, 18 and 19 in Washington, as a follow-up of sorts to an initiative that Trump announced in February. Trump signed an executive order for the initiative with more than six dozen black college presidents surrounding him. Its chief aim was to move responsibilities for historically black colleges out of the Department of Education and into the White House with an executive director in charge.

Six months later, most of the historically black college portfolio remains in the Education Department. An executive director has not been named.

“Not only do I think it should be postponed, it shouldn’t have been happening in the first place,” Richmond said. “This White House isn’t serious about improving our HBCUs. They brought all those HBCU presidents to town. They took a picture in the Oval Office. And then they did nothing.”…