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Brown Rules Out Trump Impeachment Support
Confirmed
In Short: Former lawmaker Sherrod Brown, running for Senate, told The Columbus Dispatch he would not support an impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Sherrod Brown, a former lawmaker running for Senate, told The Columbus Dispatch on Oct. 9 that he would not support an impeachment of former President Donald Trump. "I can't speak for everybody else, but I would not support an impeachment of Trump. There's just simply no reason for that, no matter what happens in the midterms," Brown said.
During Trump's first term, Brown voted to convict the president after both House impeachments. However, the Senate's votes fell short of the necessary threshold, and by the time the Senate voted on the second impeachment effort, Trump was no longer in office.
While Trump has endorsed Husted, former President Barack Obama is backing Brown. Some Democrats argue that any impeachment effort should follow a detailed investigation by the congressional committee responsible for Pentagon oversight.
Rep. Al Green is pushing the House again to vote on impeaching Trump. The House voted to table the measure in a 232 to 147 vote, a maneuver to get rid of it while avoiding voting on the impeachment resolution itself.
Eighteen House Democrats voted with Republicans to table the resolution, while 46 voted 'present.' Nearly 150 voted to move forward with a vote on impeaching Trump.
In a new NPR interview, the ex-Fox News host told Steve Inskeep that Trump's recent nuclear-tinged rhetoric on Iran warrants removal under the 25th Amendment, not just impeachment, per Mediaite.
The House has managed to pass two such resolutions in the past with some Republicans joining Democrats, but it remains unclear if this specific impeachment effort will gather significant GOP support.
Some Republicans, like Reps. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), may find the impeachment measure a difficult vote.
Brown's campaign and the White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment on Tuesday.
What this adds
Brown's stance on Trump impeachment is a shift from his previous support during Trump's first term, where he voted to convict the president after both House impeachments.
Background
Former lawmaker Sherrod Brown, who is running for Senate, told The Columbus Dispatch on Oct. 9 that he would not support an impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
What's confirmed
- Hastert presided over the House while the Senate conducted then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in his first weeks as speaker.
- In 2015, Hastert was accused of evading banking regulations to pay hush money to conceal unspecified "prior misconduct." Prosecutors filed papers almost a year later that described what media reports had started suggesting months earlier: Hastert’s misconduct involved the sexual abuse of teenage boys on his high school wrestling team in Yorkville, west of Chicago.
- Hastert said in a statement that he was “deeply ashamed” and admitted that he "mistreated” some of his athletes, but never referred directly to sexual abuse.
What's still developing
- But he told reporters Tuesday that he did not inform party leaders of his plans to introduce the articles of impeachment against Hegseth.
- Zoom out: Hegseth already faced a separate impeachment push from House Democrats, who introduced six articles against him in April that included allegations he waged an unauthorized war against Iran.
- Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Sept. 16 that the decision to leave Washington earlier than planned was unrelated to the push to remove Hegseth.
- "Sherrod Brown sided with his party twice to impeach President Trump during his first term. Now he's masquerading as a moderate, despite a career aligning himself with Bernie Sanders and AOC. Don't be fooled; when radical Democrats call, Brown always toes the line."
- An Air Force military officer has been kept in solitary confinement 24 hours a day since August after calling for President Donald Trump ’s impeachment, according to his attorney.
- 9, his attorney Christopher Mutimer told CNN that his client is “still in solitary confinement 24 hours a day.” The decorated officer has served in the military for 17 years.
- "Here you have a guy threatening to eliminate the human race and that's not considered a crime? It tells you how deranged our moral scale has become."
- Massie also said Hegseth was guilty of “ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties” and referenced the deaths of more than 200 civilians at an Iranian elementary school.
- “The entire Department is unified behind the secretary’s vision and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first,” Wilson said.
- Ralph Norman, R-South Carolina, said canceling another day of votes was "unacceptable." "The Founders did not envision taking this much time off and still getting paid," he wrote in a social media post.
- "They are afraid that the House of Representatives will vote to impeach Pete Hegseth," Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, said.