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Democrats, civic action groups rally in D.C. for impeachment of President Trump

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Demonstrators rally at the Washington Monument on Saturday, June 1, 2019 to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump (Photo by Getty Images) By  ABC Radio  |  @ABCRadio (WASHINGTON) — Demonstrators rallied at the Washington Monument on Saturday to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Members of the Need to Impeach movement partnered with the civic action group NextGen America to persuade Congress to start the impeachment process.  “We’ve actually trained people on how to meet with their member of Congress, how to speak to media and connect their story to issues of impeachment. There are 50 members of Congress now that support impeachment,” said Jeremiah Chapman National Director of Cultural Organizing, for NextGen America. A number of Democratic presidential candidates have also inched closer to supporting impeachment after special counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement last week in which he said he does not intend to testify in a Congression