So this happened. On June 24, Rep. Al Green from Texas decided it was once again time to trot out the ol’ impeachment card. His target? President Donald Trump. His reason? Trump didn’t ask permission before bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Green’s resolution didn’t get very far. The House voted to table it. Final count? 344 to 79. That’s not just rejection. That’s a landslide of “please stop wasting our time.”
Why was Green so worked up? The resolution claims President Trump sidestepped Congress when he authorized strikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear facilities. You know, the places Iran definitely wasn’t using to build nuclear bombs.
On the House floor, Green went full courtroom drama. He said this whole thing falls under “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“President Trump failed to seek prior congressionally mandated authorization for the use of military force,” he said. “Congressional leaders were not appropriately briefed or notified of the attack plans, despite foreign leaders being given advanced notice of the U.S. military action.”
So apparently the crime here is not blowing something up — it’s not asking for permission first.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELNow let’s pause for a reality check. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking on June 22, pointed out that Congress was notified. Just not before. He said, “Congressional leaders were notified after U.S. military planes left Iranian airspace.” Which makes sense, if your goal is to avoid a press leak before the mission even starts.
But Green wasn’t done. He threw the Constitution into the mix, saying Trump violated the war powers clause. That’s the part about Congress being the only branch allowed to declare war. But let’s be honest. There was no war or a declaration of war. There was a strike. It was targeted. It ended.
The White House isn’t apologizing. Spokesperson Taylor Rogers fired back with this statement to The Epoch Times:
“President Trump was able to quickly accomplish what no other president has been able to achieve—thanks to his ‘peace through strength’ leadership, Iran’s nuclear program has been obliterated and a ceasefire has been agreed to,“ she said. ”Eliminating the prospect of nuclear war is a non-partisan and unifying accomplishment that everyone should celebrate as a historic moment for the United States, the Middle East, and the entire world.”
Now enter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She decided this was the moment to, once again, accuse Trump of undermining democracy. In a post on X, she said:
“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2025
Trump’s response? Classic Trump. He didn’t mince words and went straight for the jugular on Truth Social:
“She and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me, again, MAKE MY DAY!”
Ocasio-Cortez swung back with a mix of sarcasm and melodrama:
“Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me – I’m just a silly girl. Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war. It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made.”
Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me – I’m just a silly girl.
Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war.
It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made. https://t.co/77YSWUj2dc
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 24, 2025
So we’ve got a back-and-forth between a president who ordered a strategic military strike and members of Congress pretending this is 1776 and he needs a quill-pen permission slip to defend the country.
And then there’s the actual impeachment resolution, which reads like it was ghostwritten by a law school committee trying to sound impressive:
“Trump, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, abused the powers of the presidency when he disregarded the doctrine of separation of powers by usurping Congress’s power to declare war and ordered the United States military to bomb another country without the constitutionally mandated congressional authorization or notice to Congress—cognizant of the fact that should another country’s military bomb a facility within the United States of America, it would be a de facto declaration of war against the United States of America.”
That’s not a legal argument. That’s a lecture. And it still ignores the fact that Trump hit three nuclear sites, eliminated the threat, and didn’t start a war. That used to be called diplomacy with muscle. Now it’s called an impeachable offense.
But sure, let’s keep pretending this is about the Constitution and not about 2024.
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