Impeachment trial for obama

At Donald Trump 's second impeachment trial, a core argument made by the former president's legal team, and by Republicans, is that the trial is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office.

But at campaign rallies amid his reelection push, Trump himself repeatedly targeted former President Barack Obama , calling for his predecessor to be impeached despite being out of office for years, even joking about a "belated impeachment. Arguing on the Senate floor on Tuesday during the first day of Trump's second impeachment trial, lawyer David Schoen forcefully argued that the trial was unconstitutional.

Former presidents are not, because they cannot be removed. The Constitution is clear," Schoen said. In a brief submitted on Feb. The argument also has emerged as a central theme for Republicans and a way to focus on the process of the trial and avoid addressing whether or not Trump committed impeachable offenses tied to the Capitol attack. Last month, 45 Republican senators voted to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional on the grounds Trump is no longer president, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Trump "provoked" the mob that attacked the Capitol.

Facing his first impeachment trial for allegedly pressuring Ukraine for dirt on political opponents, Trump lashed out at Obama at multiple rallies around the country, calling for the former president to be impeached for promising "you can keep your doctor" -- referring to the Affordable Care Act -- despite having left office years earlier.

The night Congress voted to impeach Trump, Dec. I think we should impeach him for that. Let's impeach him. For that, for the IRS scandal, for the guns? Remember the guns? After being acquitted in the Senate in early February , Trump again called for Obama to be impeached at a rally on Feb.

We should impeach him. Impeach Obama. He said, "Remember President Obama? He repeated the sentiment a few days later when he campaigned for his reelection in Colorado Springs, saying, "Impeach Obama. Get him out of office. We caught him in a lie 28 times at least he is on record.

Nobody said, 'Let's impeach him. Some of Trump's loyal supporters among the Republican party also supported his call to impeach Obama. Matt Gaetz R-Florida said that Obama should have been impeached for a different reason, falsely claiming that he withheld military aid from Ukraine.

Obama is not the only former President that Trump has suggested should be impeached. In a interview with Fox and Friends, Trump said, "Do you think Obama seriously wants to be impeached and go through what Bill Clinton did? He would be a mess.

In , Trump said that former President George W Bush should have been impeached for the "lies" he told about the Iraq War, which Trump called "a mess the likes of which this country has probably never seen" and "one of the great catastrophes of all time.

By saying they had WMDs, by saying all sorts of things that happened not to be true.