Former Trump Legal Adviser Claims Biden Committed 'Impeachable Offenses'
03:50 GMT 10.08.2021 (Updated: 08:57 GMT 15.11.2022)
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Jenna Ellis was hired in November 2019 by the Trump campaign as a senior legal adviser. From November 2020 till January 2021, Ellis was also part of a group investigating Trump's claims of election fraud.
A former Trump legal adviser, Jenna Ellis, called for the impeachment of US President Joe Biden, claiming that he committed "impeachable offenses".
Adding another voice to the number of conservative critics of the Biden administration who are calling for the president's impeachment, Ellis pointed at Biden's immigration policy that she says resulted in a migrant crisis on the southern US border, and a CDC eviction moratorium that the president "knows is in bad faith".
"[...] Listen, this is something where we’ve seen that any of these surges of COVID-19 can be directly attributed to these migrants that are coming in illegally crossing the border," Ellis claimed to Newsmax, adding that, "now Joe Biden's solution is to what? Just offer them a vaccination? I mean, that’s something that clearly, I think, this is a violation of his oath of office".
Ellis also called on Republicans to push impeachment efforts now even though they do not have a majority in Congress.
"There are multiple things that Joe Biden is doing here that do, in my view, constitute impeachable offenses," Ellis continued, stating, "I think that if the Republicans in Congress want to take seriously — you know any of their standing in terms of the congressional mandate to review the chief executive and to not let him get away with clearly unconstitutional behavior".
Ellis has also tweeted for a Biden impeachment.
The left is absolutely melting down over @dbongino, @marklevinshow, and me all agreeing and openly saying Biden should be impeached because… he’s actually committed impeachable offenses and should be held accountable.
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) August 9, 2021
That’s what impeachment is for.
They know we’re right. 🤷🏼♀️
Stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution.#ImpeachBiden
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) August 9, 2021
Earlier, celebrity political commentators Mark Levin and Dan Bongino called for a Biden impeachment, suggesting the use of the 25th Amendment to remove what they characterize as the "most disastrous president in modern American history". The 25th Amendment allows the transfer of power from a US president to the vice president if POTUS is found to be "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".
The US Constitution says that a president, or any other civil officer in the United States, can be impeached in the event of being guilty of "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors", without naming those specific individual "high crimes and misdemeanors".
