Overview

• Rep. Shri Thanedar formally filed seven articles of impeachment against former President Donald Trump on April 28, 2025, citing constitutional violations.
• Political opponents, including Michigan GOP Senator Aric Nesbitt and Trump, have revived allegations that Thanedar’s 2010 lab bankruptcy left over 170 dogs and monkeys abandoned without care.
• Animal welfare groups rescued 118 beagles and 55 macaque monkeys from the shuttered New Jersey facility months after its closure, with activists alleging severe neglect.
• Thanedar maintains that Bank of America, which assumed receivership of the lab, locked him out and failed to manage the animals’ welfare during the bankruptcy process.
• Critics have questioned Thanedar’s credibility, accusing him of moral hypocrisy as he leads his third impeachment effort against Trump since entering Congress in 2022.