Rep. Goldman accuses Trump of 'dozens of impeachable offenses' amid executive order controversy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 1:16 PM, Feb 19, 2025


In an interview with Scripps News, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-New York, expressed strong concerns about President Donald Trump's recent executive order that places independent government agencies under the executive branch's control. Goldman argued that Trump's actions represent an unprecedented extension of executive power, compromising the independence of agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, which were created by Congress to operate free from political influence.

"Donald Trump wants to put every single thing in the executive branch under his thumb, so that he can use all of the executive branch agencies for his own personal interests and for his own political retribution," Goldman told Scripps News. "It is absolutely lawless in many different ways, including the fact that it has to come back to Congress in order for it not to be independent."

Executive orders have long been used by presidents to implement their agenda. To date, President Trump has signed 70 executive orders. Throughout his entire four-year term, President Joe Biden signed 162. But Goldman argues that President Trump has gone too far to implement executive orders and has ignored court orders that have temporarily stopped Trump from enacting his orders.

"If we have no rule of law, if court orders cannot be relied upon and cannot be trusted, it doesn't just undermine our government, it undermines every single contract that is entered in this country, and ultimately, it ruins the foundation of our democracy, of our economy, and certainly of our government," he said. Goldman, who led House Democrats' impeachment trial against President Trump in 2019, said the president has already committed "dozens of impeachable offenses" in his first 30 days in office.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/rep-goldman-accuses-trump-of-dozens-of-impeachable-offenses-amid-executive-order-controversy

[Lovie777]

1. Fact...............

[bucolic_frolic]

2. That's correct, we will quickly reach a point where very few will obey the law

Only stupid people obey laws when courts have no enforcement power. Frontier justice will become the norm. Including crooked sheriffs.

[WestMichRad]

3. Yup. And the threshold for the majority to act is...

… apparently unreachable.

Our founding fathers didn’t imagine the potential for evil that we are witnessing.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Oh I think they imagined it

but then back then when they wrote the thing, they automatically restricted who could vote, so it was mainly a "good old boys club".

You'll notice that TODAY'S "good old boys" have focused their ire on the every people who were not permitted to vote back from the 1790s and through much of the first half of the 1900s. They have to wipe them out in order to "take us back" to those "good old days".

[Shipwack]

5. Show it, don't tell it.

I agree with his premise, but just making a pronouncement is not going to get any attention.

The Democrats need to introduce new articles of impeachment

Every

Single

Week

Yes, they will all fail. But it will show the Democrats doing something. It will keep the Mango's crimes in people's minds.

[Nululu]

6. Point is personal enrichment & power

We now know who the good little Nazis are.

[4catsmom]

7. impeachment is kid gloves

we've done it twice. arrest the guy already