A Michigan Democrat has been thrust into the national spotlight after filing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump earlier this week.
U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Monday that he filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump—who was impeached twice and acquitted both times during his first term. However, Thanedar’s latest action against Trump has reignited one of his own controversies online.
A 2010 video that shows more than 100 dogs being freed after being neglected has resurfaced on social media platform X since Thanedar revealed he was filing articles of impeachment against Trump.
The beagles were rescued from Thanedar’s abandoned pharmaceutical testing facility in New Jersey in 2010. He decided to shut down the testing facility in New Jersey after his parent company, Azopharma, went bankrupt, according to a HuffPost report. About 170 dogs and monkeys were reportedly left behind after Azopharma went bankrupt, according to the report.
From the 2018 HuffPost report:
Two animal welfare groups teamed up to find homes for the beagles and were finally able to take them from the shuttered lab on July 4 to shelters, where they would be matched with adoptive families. A video report conducted by the Times Herald-Record, based in Middletown, New York, showed the dogs arriving in a van from the lab to a staging area where volunteers groomed and attended to the forlorn animals.
Even before the beagles were abandoned, they led lonely lives in small plexiglass crates where they were subject to toxicology tests.
Thanedar said at the time of the report that the Bank of America was in control of the New Jersey lab after it declared bankruptcy. He also defended the treatment of the animals.
“No animal was harmed or subjected to any harmful conditions. No electric experiments were conducted,” he told HuffPost.
Thanedar filed articles of impeachment against Trump over his actions on immigration, tariffs and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this week.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unfit to serve as President and represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s constitution and our democracy,” Thaneder said in a statement. “His unlawful actions have subverted the justice system, violated the separation of powers, and placed personal power and self-interest above public service. We cannot wait for more damage to be done. Congress must act.”
Thanedar, a wealthy former state representative and immigrant from India, has faced steady pressure and criticism from some Democrats in his district since winning a crowded nine-way primary in 2022 and securing the seat. His victory left Detroit — nearly 80% Black — without Black representation in Congress for the first time since before Charles Diggs Jr. took office in 1955.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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