Tear gassing protesters in order to have a photo op is not an impeachable offense. Attempting to blackmail foreign leaders into investigating a political opponent is not an impeachable offense. Refusing to cooperate with investigations and subpoenas is not an impeachable offense. Threatening to shut down certain companies over personal vendettas is not an impeachable offense. However, once you have some classified emails go through a private server, that is when a line has been crossed.
No tear gas. They were told to move 3x. Somebody lit that church up the night before. Why they were even allowed in that area to begin with boggles the mind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...68726c-a544-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html Video shows a full twenty seconds before the police just randomly charge at protestors just standing and holding signs. No warning was hear there. Also as a leader with immense responsibility, a pointless photo op is not worth dispelling a peaceful protests by force. Any sane rational actor who is a leader will understand the opportunity cost isn't worth it let alone violating those protestors' rights. What's worse is that crap is caught on camera for the whole country and world to see which pisses people off more and escalates tensions more. He made a escalating move with that authoritarian power play. He was making a national crisis almost purposefully worse.
I don't know where you get your news, but you need to broaden your sources. What boggles the mind is your post. Try clicking on the links in this short report about what happened in Washington that you think so little of. It might educate you. With all due respect. From Defense One, a well known source for news about defense topics. F-35's, tanks, warships. Sometimes they report about things like this: National Guard and police attacked peaceful protesters Monday to clear a path so the president could pose for a campaign ad of himself holding a Bible in front of a church near the White House. Guardsmen and police officers shot tear gas and rubber bullets early Monday evening into a crowd of nonviolent demonstrators protesting systemic racism in America following last week’s death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man murdered by police eight days ago in Minnesota. The Washington Post has more from that scene, here. Ahead of his short walk, President Donald Trump said in a brief Rose Garden speech that he had ordered “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers” to quell civil unrest in Washington, D.C., and threatened to deploy troops in states that “refuse” to do so in their own cities. Defense One’s Katie Bo Williams has more from that, here. Trump’s entourage featured Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, both of whom followed closely as POTUS walked between tight cordons of riot-clad police to the St. John’s Episcopal Church for the photo op, which you can see via the Associated Press, here. (The church’s bishop was “outraged” over the visit.) https://www.defenseone.com/news/2020/06/the-d-brief-june-02-2020/165832/
I don't see that incident in your video. So that probably is well after the charge shown in my video 20 seconds in. So your video is pretty irellevent.
the video includes the announcements made over the loudspeakers pretty clearly. that was the "warning" you said you had not heard in the video you posted: not sure what "incident" you are referring to; the video I provided simply provides evidence of the warnings that were given there's a longer video here if you're interested:
In isolation, honestly I wouldn't call it a high crime or misdemeanor. It is an abuse of the power of his office, but not high enough. If Bush had done it, I wouldn't want an impeachment. A censure might be appropriate. But of course, for Trump it fits a pattern of abuse. I would make a laundry list with the 95 abuses large and small he's committed since taking office and impeach him on the totality of his behavior. The misuse of police power in DC is worth inclusion in my laundry list.
not trying to be cute here, but I'm not sure what "incident" you are referring to at the 15 second mark, other than the beginning of the police action to break up and disperse the crowd
