Impeachment is at the top of many Leftists’ minds. They want to use it to stop President Trump and his agenda.
And a top member of the Trump admin has been hit with an impeachment threat by this deranged Democrat.
Michigan Democrat Rep. Shri Thanedar declared war on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, vowing to slap him with impeachment articles over a no-nonsense military hit on a Venezuelan drug boat. Thanedar, never one to shy away from grandstanding, latched onto a 2016 clip where Hegseth stood firm on military ethics, twisting it into ammo for his latest political stunt.
The drama kicked off with Thanedar posting on X, sharing a Hill report that dug up Hegseth’s old words: “I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes.” In his typical fashion, Thanedar fired back with, “I agree, this is why I’ll be introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary Hegseth.”
That 2016 video, unearthed by CNN and amplified by the Hill, shows Hegseth at a Liberty Forum event in Silicon Valley, laying down the law on military conduct.
He stressed, “If you’re doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that,” while talking about troops refusing illegal orders. And he nailed it with, “There’s a standard, there’s an ethos,” highlighting the unbreakable moral code of our armed forces. But now, the left wants to punish Hegseth for living up to those very principles in the fight against narco-terrorists.
At the heart of this witch hunt is a September 2 operation where U.S. forces took out a suspected Venezuelan drug vessel. The first strike obliterated the boat, and a second one reportedly finished off any survivors clinging to life.
The White House made it clear: Hegseth greenlit Admiral Frank Bradley to handle the op, but the admiral pulled the trigger on the follow-up. Hegseth himself told the press he tuned in live for the initial blast but then got back to business, saying, “I moved on to my next meeting.”
Thanedar is charging Hegseth with “M*rder and Conspiracy to Murder and Reckless and Unlawful Mishandling of Classified Information.” It’s laughable, coming from a guy whose party coddles criminals and opens the borders wide. A press release from his office, snagged by Axios, spells out the accusations, but let’s be real—this is just theater to smear a Trump loyalist.
Even within his own ranks, Thanedar’s getting the cold shoulder. One senior Democrat whispered that “outside groups will support” the push, but top dogs aren’t biting. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries waved it off, admitting Republicans in control won’t touch it because “Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor… Donald Trump will order them not to do it.”
Jeffries couldn’t resist piling on, though, claiming, “It is my understanding that Pete Hegseth, the so-called secretary of defense, was absolutely involved. I think he may have even recently acknowledged that because the facts are incapable of being disputed.” He pushed for Hegseth to quit but settled for calling a bipartisan probe “on the table.”
The Democrat chorus is growing louder against the strike. California Rep. Ted Lieu, a ex-JAG guy, blasted it as a war crime, declaring, “K*lling shipwrecked survivors is a war crime.” Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went further, saying the whole thing was “either a war crime or m*rder,” based on whatever legal spin the administration uses.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy didn’t hold back, branding Hegseth “a walking, talking national security embarrassment” and demanding he step down. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly piled on, calling Hegseth “the most unqualified secretary of defense we’ve ever had in the history of our country, by far,” while griping about dodgy classified briefings on the incident.
But Hegseth isn’t backing down one inch. In a recent cabinet huddle, he ramped up the rhetoric, warning that America has “only just begun striking narco boats.” He framed these hits as vital strikes against terrorist outfits pumping drugs into our veins, insisting everything was above board and that field commanders deserve our full support.
Hegseth doubled down: “We always have the back of our commanders.”
Thanedar’s solo crusade might fizzle fast, given his track record. A senior House Democrat told Axios, “It’s Shri… someone who people respect will have to do a real one if that happens.” He’s floated impeachments before, like against President Trump, and they’ve gone nowhere without leadership buy-in.
This echoes Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens’ September flop, when she targeted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over supposed “health care chaos.” It’s the same playbook: manufacture outrage to hobble the Trump team.
History buffs might recall that Hegseth wouldn’t be the first defense chief in the hot seat—back in 1876, the House impeached Secretary William Belknap over bribery.
But that was real corruption, not this partisan hit job. In the end, Thanedar’s stunt is just more noise from a party desperate to distract from their failures.
America needs warriors like Hegseth, not whiners like these Dems.
