Los Angeles City Council just joined a growing number of American cities to pass a resolution pressing for an investigation into potentially impeachable offenses by President Donald Trump. The L.A. resolution that passed 10 to 0 on Friday calls for “support for any legislative action” to investigate whether Trump has violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. It also demands an investigation examine whether he has committed “any other high crime or misdemeanor sufficient to warrant commencement of impeachment proceedings.”It’s “not about any of his policies that I and many of us here find completely odious,” said City Council member Bob Blumenfield (D-San Fernando Valley), a co-author of the resolution, in a speech before its passage. It’s about “pressuring Congress to ensure that Trump only uses his presidency to benefit the American people” and not just grow his net worth, Blumenfield added. “With this resolution, the city of Los Angeles calls on our Congress members and senators for the good of the country to investigate Trump’s international finances and make sure that he is actually working on behalf of the American people and not his own pocketbook.”

Source: Huffington Post May 06, 2017 06:16 UTC