The Vindication of Al Green
The Texas congressman was among the first to call for Trump’s impeachment in 2017. He may finally get his wish.
Somewhere in the swamp of Washington, D.C., Donald Trump is agonizing over a whistleblower’s identity, Joe Biden is fending off questions about his son, and Nancy Pelosi is readying her troops for the fight to come.
Meanwhile, Representative Al Green (D-Texas) can’t help but feel a profound sense of relief, as if the void he’d been yelling into has finally answered back. “Impeachment is something that I prognosticated a long time ago from the floor of the House of Representatives,” the congressman tells GEN. “I believe that within the next two months, it will come to fruition.”
Following the release of a partial transcript of the call between the Ukrainian and American presidents, Trump’s strategy has shifted from one of outright denial to attacks on the credibility of the whistleblower, whose urgent report helped tip the balance of House Democrats toward impeachment. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to not prevent the case from going forward to a trial in the Senate.
Green pauses for a moment, perhaps to hedge just a bit, “Let me make that within months it will come to fruition.”
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