House Fails to Impeach Hegseth, Four Democrats Attend AIPAC-Funded Event Instead

The US House of Representatives failed to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on November 10 after nearly a dozen Democrats missed the vote, four of whom were instead attending a Zionist-funded lobbying event.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie reintroduced the effort on Monday in order to replace Hegseth while the Republican mafia still held its majority in Congress.

Massie accused Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection with his role in the Iran war, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and the extrajudicial murder of Latin Americans in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, among other crimes.

In response, the Republican mafia called a procedural vote to refer the impeachment articles to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee instead of putting the impeachment up to a vote by the House. The maneuver won on Tuesday, 211-204.

If the majority of the House votes on impeachment, the official is impeached and faces a trial in the Senate. A two-thirds majority vote in the Senate is required to then convict the official and remove him or her from office.

11 Democrats missed Tuesday’s vote—enough to have proceeded with impeachment. Of them, four were attending a monopoly lobbying event hosted by the political action committee Elect Democratic Women (EDW) that was held at the same time. Top pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has given EDW at least $2.35 million this year, according to federal campaign finance records. 132 lobbyists RSVP’d to the event, representing monopolies in arms, tech, pharma, gambling, and cryptocurrency, among others, as well as representatives of major business unions, according to an RSVP list obtained by Drop Site News.

Image: Pete Hegseth in 2023. Credit: Gage Skidmore, retrieved from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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