President Trump Impeachment Marches In Detroit, Ann Arbor July 2

DETROIT, MI — Activists are ramping up their pressure on Congress to start the process to remove President Trump from office, and are staging “Impeachment Marches” in dozens of U.S. cities on Sunday, July 2. In Michigan, marches are planned in both Detroit and Ann Arbor.

Though announced before fired FBI director James Comey’s testified before Congress and lay out a case against Trump for obstruction of justice and interference in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, recent developments are sure energize activists.

Organizers, who are said to be the same forces behind the Tax Day protests earlier this year to demand Trump release his tax returns, said on an event website that Trump “has been in blatant violation of the Constitution from the day he was sworn into the office of president.”

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“It is time that congressional representatives do their job and start the process to impeach this president,” the organizers wrote. “We believe president Trump has committed constitutional breaches, consistently lied, cheated, and enforces laws that primarily benefit him and his billionaire friends at the expense of the country,” activists said.

The Metro Detroit Political Action Network is organizing the Detroit march, which will be held from noon to 3 p.m., beginning at the Joe Louis fist monument on Woodward Avenue, according to a Facebook event page that lists possible grounds for impeachment.

“Stop Trump Ann Arbor invites all individuals and organizations to join us in expressing our collective outrage at what the Trump Administration is doing to our country and world,” the group wrote on a Facebook event page. “There are ample legal reasons to impeach Trump if the political will was there. ...”

Trump responded to Comey’s testimony Sunday morning, casting him as a cowardly leaker.

“I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very ‘cowardly!’ ”

Click the link for a full list of impeachment marches.

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