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Trump’s Doomsday clock: “A whole civilization will die tonight” — Tuesday April 7, 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT). Impeachment forum convenes Wednesday

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Reuters’ summary of events

As Trump’s deadline nears, last-ditch effort seeks Iran ceasefire
Parisa Hafezi and Trevor Hunnicutt
April 6, 2026
with video

Excerpt:
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran on Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran refuses to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz shipping lane by his evening deadline, while Pakistan proposed a two-week ceasefire in a last-ditch attempt at ​mediation.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” ​Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply troubled” by Trump’s statement, his spokesperson said. Pope Leo ‌said threats against ⁠the population of Iran are “unacceptable.”

Brian Finucane, ⁠a former U.S. State Department legal adviser now with the International Crisis Group, said Trump’s remarks “could plausibly be interpreted as a threat to commit genocide” under U.S. and international law.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-defiant-eve-trumps-ceasefire-deadline-2026-04-07/

Expert Legal Symposium on Impeachment and the Meaning of “Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors”

https://nader.org/2026/04/02/expert-legal-symposium-on-impeachment-and-the-meaning-of-bribery-or-other-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors/

Wednesday April 8th, 2026
9 AM to 1:30 PM
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2044

Please observe the following to enter the Rayburn Building.

Livestream link via The Real News Network.

Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein Present: 

Expert Legal Symposium on Impeachment and the Meaning of “Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors” 

9:00 am – 9:10 am: OPENING REMARKS BY RALPH NADER
 Consumer advocate, lawyer, and author.

9:15 am – 10:25 am: Panel 1 – President Trump’s usurpation of the congressional war power conferred by Article I, section 8, clause 11 exemplified by his gratuitous, ongoing, criminal war of aggression against Iran.

Moderator: Theresa Amato (Opening statement, 10 minutes) Principal, Amato PLLC

Panelists (15 minutes each):

Dennis Kucinich Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1997–2013, Mayor of Cleveland 1977–79 
Doug Bandow Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties 
Jeffrey Sterling Lawyer, former CIA officer and whistleblower 

Open Q&A (remaining time, approx. 15 minutes)

10:30 am – 11:25 am: Panel 2 – The credible fear that President Trump will obstruct, interfere with, or outright cancel the 2026 midterm elections unless impeached and removed from office.

Moderator: John Bonifaz (Opening statement, 10 minutes) 
John Bonifaz is a constitutional attorney and the Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People.

Panelists (15 minutes each): 

Bruce Fein Constitutional Lawyer and scholar, former Assistant Deputy Attorney General and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission
Oliver Hall: Founder, Executive Director and  General Counsel for the Center for Competitive Democracy

Open Q&A (approx. 15 minutes)

11:30 am – 12:25 pm: Panel 3 – President Trump’s industrial scale bribery and extortion exemplified by auctioning pardons, demanding free legal services to escape government retaliation, and conferring government favors or benefits in exchange for donations to Mr. Trump’s sprawling business empire or pet projects like the White House ballroom.

Moderator: Jack Rakove (Opening statement, 10 minutes)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanford Professor of History and American Studies, political science and law

Panelists (15 minutes each): 

Alan B. Morrison Former Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service and professor of civil procedure and constitutional law at GW Law. 
Rob Weissman Co-president of Public Citizen, public interest advocate and activist 

Open Q&A (approx. 15 minutes)

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm: Statements by Public Scholars, Civic Leaders, Activists and Writers

Moderator: Mark Green (Opening statement, 10 minutes) 
Author, Lawyer, and first New York City Public Advocate

Presenters (5 minutes each):

John R. MacArthur Publisher Harper’s Magazine
Andy Shallal CEO and Founder, Busboys and Poets
David Kelley Political Policy Advisor & Writer
Ellen Barfield Co-founder of the Veterans For Peace Women’s Caucus 
Jessica Denson Founder of the Removal Coalition
Ben Cohen Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry’s 
John Koskinen Former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

This event is co-sponsored by RootsAction, Free Speech For People, and Essential Information. 

From Dennis Kucinich
April 7, 2026

No matter what happens tonight, Congress must return to DC immediately. The President must be impeached and removed from office

There is an unprecedented urgency for Congress to return to DC immediately to consider an impeachment resolution and begin the process of removing the President from office.

Tomorrow, I will join constitutional scholars in Congress to present the case for the impeachment and removal of the President, a responsibility I have taken up before in defense of the Constitution.

Since that meeting was announced, Donald Trump has stated that if Iran does not accede to his demands, “a whole civilization will die,” at his direction and instance.

This statement alone underscores the unprecedented urgency of Congress returning to full session immediately to consider an impeachment resolution and begin the process of removing the President from office.

Victor Davis Hanson, in his book The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, offers a sweeping historical account of how civilizations collapse through war driven by human passion. In a 2024 review in Law & Liberty, Graham McAleer writes: “The historical record shows, Hanson argues, that no matter how sophisticated a great power is, there is always the risk of annihilation when a strategy relies on hope, stokes vengeance, overstates prowess, and displays arrogance.” We must ask plainly: Are we checking those boxes now?

The President cannot commit cultural homicide against Iran without committing cultural suicide on behalf of so-called Western civilization, changing forever how America and Americans are seen across the world. We are not immune from the consequences of this misuse of power. This path risks both the end of Iran, and the end of America as we know it. It propels the world to war.

The President must be brought to account for his threat to unlawfully unleash violence, or every American will be stained by actions already taken. Thousands of innocent Iranian civilians have been killed, including 180 children in the February 28 missile strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran.

The destruction of Persian civilization is already underway. The President and his Secretary of War have usurped unto themselves the authority to direct assassinations of educators, philosophers, and scientists, and to order the bombing of universities, hospitals, and mosques. We have seen this pattern before in the pulverization of Gaza and Lebanon. Now it extends to Iran. World treasures of antiquity are being destroyed.

A President associated with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, rooted in the exploitation of children, now presides over the killing of children abroad. This is a gigantic moral collapse.

The President has repeatedly threatened that this evening, at 8 p.m. Eastern, 3 a.m. Tehran time, he will misuse the power of his office to attempt the destruction of a civilization, through means that could surpass even the devastation inflicted upon the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

If such a plan proceeds, the consequences will not be confined to Iran. The unleashing of destruction upon countless millions of innocent people will reverberate across the world and across generations.

We now find ourselves watching the clock, 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. Mountain, 5 p.m. Pacific, as if counting down to a new year. But this is not a celebration. It is a doomsday clock, driven by one man’s will.

No matter what happens tonight, Congress must act. The President must be impeached and removed from office, for the sake of our nation and for the sake of the world. Silence is complicity.

https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/no-matter-what-happens-tonight-congress

French lawyer asks every MP to impeach Hollande for war crimes in Donetsk, Syria

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Why not President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Senator John McCain?

From Fort Russ

Deposition of Anna Touve

  Egalité-Reconciliation, December 11, 2015
  Translated from French by Tom Winter, December 18, 2015

Original title: Impeachment procedure, François Hollande, President of the Republic:
Communiqué of Master Viguier and testimony of victims

 Here is the press release of Damien Viguier, Esq. 
Criminal policy in Syria and Donbass: Hollande impeachment Paris, December 11, 2015 – 

 Two women, victims in Syria and in Donbass, speaking through their lawyer, have addressed a request to each French parliamentarian to bring François Hollande before the High Court. 

 One of these two women, the one from Syria, was raped in front of her husband, the other, a resident of Donbass, saw her house blown up in a bombing that killed her husband and two of her children, and wounded her two other children, and made her lose an arm. 

 These criminal acts are the direct consequences of the actions of François Hollande. One tenth of parliamentarians either House may take the initiative for impeachment proceedings against François Hollande by filing a Motion for a resolution calling for a session of the High Court.

 MPI TV broadcast Mr. Viguier’s the call to impeach Francois Hollande: 

Video
Master Damien Viguier interrogates a young Syrian woman who was kidnapped, beaten, and raped by “moderate rebels,” supported and armed by France:
Master Damien Viguier interrogates a young mother from Ukrainian Donbass whose family was decimated by the shells of the “loyalist” army supported by France:
Master Damien Viguier sent the following letter to MPs: 
Sir, 
I appeal to the representative of the nation, in the name of Madame Anna Touve, a Ukrainian national, civilian residing in Donetsk, and in the name of a young woman, also a civilian, residing in Damascus (Syria), who, for understandable reasons, remains anonymous. On May 26, 2015 in Gorlovka (Donbass) Touve, Anna lost her husband and two of her children in the explosion of shells fired by the militias of the Kiev regime.

 Seriously injured, she lost her left arm. As for the young Syrian woman, she was assaulted in 2013, at her home, raped and tortured in the presence of her husband by so-called rebels against the Syrian regime.

 My two clients are the victims of a certain conception of international relations. In accordance with the principles of law, it is the senior military or political officials who must be punished, and by the State to which they belong.

 Regarding Donbass, François Hollande has supported and encouraged a de facto regime that took power illegally, by violence, in Kiev. And therefore he bludgeoned any attempt at liberation on the part of the eastern regions of Ukraine. He does not cease encouraging abuses against the people of Donbass.

 Regarding Syria, this same François Hollande, since taking office, has unceasingly kept up the offensive against the Syrian state. He has acknowledged arms shipments to the “rebels.” 

 And the statements of his foreign minister, including “the Al-Nusra Front did a good job,” statement, were said by the administrative courts, to note the foreign policy of France.

 These facts correspond to the definition that is given of crimes against peace, and of a crime of war. And there is certainly a case of complicity in the crimes committed. The question arises, before history, of our responsibility to all, confronted as we are with the atrocities committed by those who clearly abuse their position and turn aside from the mission that has been entrusted to them.

 According to Article 68 of the Constitution, and the Organic Law of November 24, 2014, in the case of breach of the duties of a President of the Republic, manifestly incompatible with the exercise of a mandate, a High Court may order the dismissal of the head of state. The initiative for this procedure is yours: one tenth of the parliamentarians of one or the other chamber deposit on the desk of their assembly a reasoned resolution for impeachment and calling the High Court to a meeting.

 Therefore Anna Touve and the young Syrian woman appeal to you and urge you, Mr Deputy, kindly take the initiative. For them, yes, but for all the civilians, the wounded, the prisoners, the women, the children, the elderly, who are suffering in their flesh because of a criminal policy of boundless cynicism and utter unscupulousness that certain politicians are conducting.

 I stand at your entire dispositon, to provide you with all clarifications and any details that you consider useful. I beg you to accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. 

                                         — Damien Viguier

 Translator note: There are many applauding comments, e.g. “Nixon got dumped for 100 times less”

http://www.fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/12/french-lawyer-asks-every-mp-to-impeach.html