Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Wednesday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Why it matters: The long-shot effort centers on two scandals currently rocking the Pentagon — a new report about Signalgate and allegations of a follow-up strike against an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.

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    It would be better if it’s “Democrat announces articles of impeachment against Trump” instead to cut all this shit off at the root.

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    Didnt he also already put in articles of impeachment on Trump? Theyve been sitting there since March or something

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    Good.

    Fuck Hakeem Jefferies. Pussy wanted to protect Hegseth because he’s more concerned about alienating the entirely fictional demographic of GOP voters who might flip Dem if the Dems become more semi-fascist

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      More and more it looks like controlled opposition. It sounded like a conspiracy theory, but I’m now truly starting to be convinced that Schummer and Jeffries were bought.

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      Yeah, that was… something. Felt a smidgen of my soul leave my body at that point. Hegseth ordered people killed in cold blood and all you got was “won’t matter anyways?” What is wrong with you, Jefferies?

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        Impeachment has lost all meaning. Trump has been impeached multiple times but remains in office. Trump loyalists in congress prevented him from seeing any consequences for those impeachments and block new impeachments. Unless something changes, the only way Hegseth is leaving is if Trump decides to remove him.

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        If he’s fine with innocent children being murdered in cold blood by Israel why would he draw the line at innocent fishermen?

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      They’re not moving rightward to appease the voters, they’re doing it to appease the corporate donors.

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    Rumors have been going around that Hegseth was gonna get fired early next year anyway.

    Apparently Trump promised not to fire any cabinet members for a year bc he had such turmoil amongst the turnover during his first term.

    Sorry for the CNN article. I actually read a story about this back in Sept but I can’t remember where and CNN was the first I could find referencing the same idea.

    At the time I read about, it was over Signalgate and the embarrassing Trump at the Fat Generals Speech.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/trump-cabinet-kristi-noem-chris-wright

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    Good to see resistance. Even if it doesn’t gather support now it’s always good to take the first steps. Move Kegsbreath’s impeachment into view in a corner of whatever the Overton window has become in the age of disinformation.

    • Impeachment is not a criminal trial.

      Impeachment is explicitly not allowed to be pardoned in the constitution.

      After a 2/3 conviction and removal, it takes only a simple majority vote to disqualify for future office. Can’t pardon this, I mean they could try, then we’d be in a constitutional crisis.

      Problem would be finding that 67 senators willing to vote to convict. Aint happening, everyone is corrupt.