John Larson moves to impeach Donald Trump, cites fitness concerns

Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced he has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, citing concerns over his fitness to be in office. Larson shared that he was working with Rep. Jamie Raskin to establish a Congressional panel on presidential fitness under the 25th Amendment. The move comes after Democrats repeatedly called upon the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the President over his handling of the Iran war. 

Sharing an article on X about Democratic Representative Shri Thanedar urging the Cabinet to oust President Trump, Larson stated that he had filed articles of impeachment to aid the process. "Donald Trump is incapable of executing the duties of the Presidency. If his cabinet won't act, then Congress needs to step up," Larson wrote, announcing his collaboration with Raskin on the presidential fitness panel. 

In his earlier press release, the Congressman claimed Trump had "blown past every requirement to be removed from office," and the situation was only getting worse with the war dragging on. He added that Republicans have failed to uphold their constitutional responsibility to initiate the impeachment proceedings, and urged them to take action. "Members of the Cabinet and those closest to the President can act immediately," continued Larson. "They have an obligation to put patriotism over politics and invoke the 25th Amendment." Larson also vowed to help build an undeniable record of Trump's "corruption, high crimes, and violations of the Constitution," so that Congress or the next one is well prepared to act decisively.  

Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, also introduced a bill last month to kick-start the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment, a long-shot effort that is unlikely to succeed without Republican support. Raskin's legislation was offered with 50 Democratic co-sponsors, and it seeks to establish a Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office. The bill was introduced after Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilization in the Middle East, and posted doctored AI images seemingly depicting him as God. He later claimed the image was portraying him as a doctor.

Most recently, Raskin called for a "de-Trumpification" of the government, alleging that the president had weaponized the Department of Justice to go after his adversaries and used the office for self-enrichment. "So we need to re-establish the basic functions of the office, and then we have to go after all of the corruption that pervades the Department of Justice and the rest of the government," Raskin said in an interview on MS Now. The Democratic leader from Maryland added that it's a huge task and "the work of a generation," which would take well over three to six months, even if Democrats get the House, Senate, and even the White House back. "We need to de-Trumpify this government and restore it as an instrument for the common good and for American constitutional democracy, rather than the private self-enrichment of one individual and his family," Raskin added.