Democrats aim to hold Trump accountable amid Iran ceasefire deal

Source: ABC News

April 8, 2026, 4:00 PM


Despite President Donald Trump saying that the United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, congressional Democrats are pushing forward to hold the president accountable.

“The president has promised to commit war crimes. He's promised to eradicate an entire civilization we have never ever seen that in the history of this country. That's why I and many other people have been talking for the last 24 hours about the 25th amendment,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said on CNN Tuesday of the potential vehicle for removing the president from office.

Murphy said Trump has "lost touch with reality" -- mentioning the president’s Tuesday morning social media post in which he threatened that a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." However, hours before an 8 p.m. ET self-imposed deadline for Iran to make a deal to fully reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz or face broad strikes on its critical infrastructure, Trump said he had agreed to suspend planned bombing for two weeks if Iran agreed to reopen the strait.

"We just can't accept a president who is literally promising to destroy an entire civilization, to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. That alone should be grounds for the removal of this President," said Murphy, who was one of several lawmakers who mentioned the 25th Amendment after Trump's latest threats.

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