Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto sets up Go Fund Me page to raise £40million to impeach Donald Trump
PABLO Escobar’s brother is raising £40million to impeach Donald Trump with claims the drug kingpin's family holds "dirty secrets" about the US President.
Roberto, the brother of the dead Colombian drug lord, launched the surprise GoFundMe campaign in the midst of a partial government shutdown.
The 71-year-old, also known as El Osito, wrote on the GoFundMe page: "I am the brother of a Latino hero, I have eliminated many people from power. ... Trump will be impeached," .
The promotional poster also promises: "We, the people will impeach Donald Trump with Pablo Escobar's family holding dirty secrets of President Trump, his family and associates."
It is not yet clear exactly how Roberto's $50million campaign would work, though according to TMZ they are asking anyone who can to finance "intelligence research, lobby firms and lawyers" that could lead to Trump's downfall.
The page has now been removed from GoFundMe while the page creators are "asked exactly how the money used will be raised".
On the poster Roberto links to Pablo Escobar's official holding company that "preserves the legacy of the Escobar family and Pablo Escobar" as well as a website dedicated to the campaign.
Roberto de Jesús Escobar Gaviria, 71, was the former accountant and co-founder of the Medellin Cartel - reportedly responsible for up to 80 per cent of cocaine smuggled in the US.
He was released in 2004 after serving 10 years in jail and in 2013 was on his notorious brother.
After a lifetime evading the law, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was shot dead by Colombian Police in 1993, the day after his 44th birthday.
It is not known whether Roberto's grudge against Trump could be related in any way to his recent proposals to crack down on illegal drug smuggling.
During his first televised address address from the Oval Office last night, he told viewers: "The border wall would very quickly pay for itself. The cost of illegal drugs exceeds $500 billion a year, vastly more than the $5.7 billion we have requested from Congress."
This is far from being the first time Trump has faced impeachment - a formal accusation of serious wrongdoing that can be levelled against any sitting President or other senior US official.
The led by Free Speech For People and RootsAction has already won around 1.5million signatures, and calls on Congress to investigate whether there are sufficient grounds to impeach the President and offers ten reasons why they are called to do so.
These include allegations of obstruction of justice, "advocating illegal violence" and "giving aid and comfort to white supremacists and neo-Nazis".
The US constitution states a president “shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours”.
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But the milestone has not yet been reached in America's history - though Presidents Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson came close.
Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached over the Watergate scandal.
Throughout his term so far, Trump has been vocal about the subject, writing on Twitter last week: "How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93 per cent?".
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