Protesters from the “#Resistance” movement demonstrated in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and nationwide on Sunday to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators showed up in downtown Los Angeles, and hundreds more attended some 45 rallies across the country.
CBS Los Angeles reported:
Thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in downtown Los Angeles for a march to impeach PresidentDonald Trump.
Massive crowds marched from Pershing Square to Fletcher-Bowron Square to urge Congress to impeach the president.
The Los Angeles march was one of 45 sister marches across the nation including Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco and Ventura.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a small group of pro-Trump counter-demonstrators also marched.
There are about three to four dozen people gathered outside LAPD headquarters in #dtla to support Trump and protest the Impeachment March. pic.twitter.com/GL71rsa3fR
— Laura J. Nelson (@laura_nelson) July 2, 2017
The official website for the marches, impeachmentmarch.org, listed two reasons for Trump’s impeachment: namely, his alleged violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause and the Domestic Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. (Many constitutional scholars have dismissed those claims: “My skepticism borders on disbelief,” liberal scholar Jonathan Turley told Bloomberg News last month.)
Marchers in Ann Arbor, Michigan also reportedly claimed that Trump deserved to be impeached because of alleged obstruction of justice in the firing of FBI director James Comey.
Other marches featured similar themes:
At the #ImpeachmentMarch in Austin. We march because we love America and will fight like hell to save our great democracy. @indivisibleATX pic.twitter.com/yrqsDKk4hL
— ActionsforAmericans (@ActionsUSA) July 2, 2017
#ImpeachmentMarch come to Columbus Circle. Crowd is growing #trump pic.twitter.com/QufZ6gxZ2D
— Gabrielle Shatan (@GabrielleShatan) July 2, 2017
Impeachment rally in SF. Impeach #knownothingdonald pic.twitter.com/cSrFbPLHpV
— Tom Yamaguchi (@tomyamaguchi) July 2, 2017
The #SanDiego #Resistance turns out for the #ImpeachmentMarch to say
Hey Hey
Ho Ho
45’s got to go#ResistanceSummercc: @IndivisibleTeam pic.twitter.com/lWEBkrI4z4
— Indivisible SanDiego (@SDIndivisible) July 2, 2017
Protesters in the street at the Seattle #ImpeachmentMarch pic.twitter.com/5T9VJwn7Oq
— Sam Levine (@samlevine) July 2, 2017
#SwampCaucus at the #ImpeachmentMarch in #Philly. #PartyOverCountry #Savethe1percent #SavetheSwamp #DrainThis pic.twitter.com/n9ZEgJsUGB
— Swamp Caucus (@swampcaucus) July 2, 2017
The organization responsible calls itself “Impeachment March – Worldwide.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the “most influential” people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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