Impeachment Resolution Cites Trump's 'Incitement' Of Capitol Insurrection
"Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States," the resolution argues, citing his false claims of election fraud in the months leading up to the riot — which he repeated on Jan. 6 — and a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where Trump urged him to "find" votes to overturn the results there.
The impeachment article says that during an address to supporters on Wednesday, Trump "willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: 'if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a county anymore.' "
The House is expected to take up the article later this week. If it's approved, Trump would become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. It's not clear when the Senate would take up the matter. A Senate vote is required for removal from office — a timeline that is nearly impossible given next week's inauguration.
The rioters killed a police officer, and the FBI is investigating whether they intended to kidnap or kill lawmakers.
The former Capitol Police chief summed it up: “As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on. Violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats.
I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.”
Trump’s responsibility — and those of his Republican enablers — for this rampage has also become clearer.
The New York Times quoted one of the rioters: “Our president wants us here. We wait and take orders from our president.” Another one told the Wall Street Journal: “[Trump] said, `Hey, I need my digital soldiers to show up on January 6.’ And we all did.”
It’s an open and shut case. The president incited a violent insurrection against another branch of the U.S. government. He needs to leave office immediately — either via resignation, the 25th Amendment or impeachment. His most egregious enablers — such as Sens. Josh Hawley (R.-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R.-Tex.) — should be either censured or expelled for violating their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution."
16 comments:
Trump incited a violent, mass break-in at the Capitol, to disrupt certification of the incoming President of the USA. He jeopardize the safety of all of Congress and got 5 people killed in the process. Why shouldn't the authorities be prepared to arrest this guy and get him off the street, before he can claim any more victims?
Trump is a violent person who is a menace to society, and who is engaged in an open assault on democracy. The appropriate mechanism for removing a threat like that is the criminal justice system.
Let's just hope things don't get worse in the 9 days.
Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, acknowledged that President Trump was partly responsible for the chaos and riot at the Capitol Wednesday.
But then he said Trump should not be removed.
A president is partly responsible for the destruction of the US Capitol, 5 deaths and the Southern Flag being paraded through the building for the first time ever and he should not be removed?
What planet is McCarthy from?
Clearly he too sails on the SS Mothership of Denial.
I'm kind of surprised that the party over country Republiscumbags aren't jumping on the impeachment train too, actually. Any of them who have an interest in running in 2024 should see this as a way to clear the decks for their own run by preventing King Clorox from running again. They'd piss off the 'base', sure, but they'll have 4 years of lying and clutching their pearls at everything Biden/Harris does to rehabilitate themselves with many of the hard right morons. As it stands now, they'll be side-lined waiting to see if the orange blob is going to try another run or not and you know he'll be doing all he can to stay relevant to his enabling and adoring idiots.
Trumpublicans do not want unity. Unless it is on their terms. Period.
Loyalty to a personality (tRump) has replaced loyalty to the Constitution and Country.
tRump is a criminal (his sedition and insurrection confirm this fact) and those who continue to support him are complicit.
To Republicans unity is weakness.
Dave, McCarthy is a dishonest and shameful man. He's backing the wrong horse.
Trump will be out of office on January 20, and Congress MUST investigate those who backed the insurrection.
BTW, a certain commenter on the AOW blog whom I always admired for his intelligence and writing skills says this wasn't an "insurrection" and shouldn't be called that.
What the hell happened to him? He's usually a measured, fair commenter, but he's so terribly wrong on this. If this isn't an insurrection where thousands and thousands of people invaded the US Capitol with the goal of hanging the VPOTUS and shooting the Speaker of the House so they could illegally install the man who lost the presidency, then nothing is. Five people lost their lives.
I'm afraid that guy is also blinded by tribalism, and the inability to see Trump for the monster that he is.
Bluebullamerica, The current Trumpublican party are a bunch of feckless crybaPbies who believe only they have the right to govern, and when the GOP do get to govern look at what happens!
RN It took a coup to overturn a legal election to wake people up to the ongoing criminality of the Trump administration. Eight days to go and then we'll be rid of him from the Oval Office, but I'm not sure if we'll be rid of the monster from our collective psyches!
Trump needs to be punished for what he did to America!
This is why we can't have nice things:
Ed Bonderenka says:
January 12, 2021 at 4:22 am
Fairness?
This Thing Happened at the Capitol
It wasn’t a riot, or an insurrection.
There was an incursion.
Some people died.
But the real tragedy occurred shortly after.
A nation was stolen.
Try to remember that.
They don’t want you to.
More insanity from the Trump traitors!
Shaw and others... The SS Mothership of Denial is a microscope of what passes for conservative think these days and Ed's comment above is a perfect example.
Here's a different angle on what we witnessed last week, and what we fear in coming days...
"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Can anyone tell me why the major players who sit in jail now, folks like Horn and Fur Man and the ones who beat the officer with an American flag, should not face being charged under the above, from Title 18 of the US Code Section 2384 regarding Seditious Conspiracy?
BTW... the article I cited yesterday from redstate.com, written by Mike Ford that denied an insurrection, or for that matter, even much violence, has been pulled from the site. Here's what they said...
“Many details, opinions, and analysis contained in the piece were either incorrect or inappropriate. It has been retracted and we regret its publication.”
Anonymous The Trumpers continue to insist that what happened on Jan. 6 was nothing more than a little "rowdiness." They're lying, of course, since we could see with our own eyeballs that what happened at the Capitol was an insurrection, attempted assassination of our duly elected leaders, mayhem and destruction of US property and everything else a marauding blood-thirsty mob does.
That E.B. character is complicit in this because he refuses to see the attempt to overthrow the US government as the crime that it is. No Middle East terrorist did this to America, but people, like that Bonderenka person, are trying their best to destroy America with their stubborn insistence to NOT see this attack on democracy as the terrible crime that it is.
Dave,
The comments by people like the ones posting on the far right blogs are a large and dangerous part of the disaster facing our country. They refuse to see what happened as an insurrection because they are part of it, in that they don't see what happened on Jan. 6 as a crime against the United States of America, they see it as the natural outcome of people being disappointed because Trump lost the election, which is astounding to me.
Definition of insurrection: "a violent uprising against an authority or government."
That is what happened on Jan. 6. And everyone on those blogs who refuse to see that is complicit in encouraging the overthrow of the government of the United States.
Shaw... on insurrection. Their new word, sort of like something from PeeWee's Playhouse, is incursion. I've seen it on blogs, articles, etc. You're right, they can't use the word insurrection, because it would implicate them.
It is interesting... they never supported armed conflict when African Americans were denied by state laws entry into public schools, a seat at a lunch counter and the right to vote in many southern states.
If anyone back then had risen up like the January 6 mob, they'd have called for all the survivors of a Klan led hanging spree to have been shot.
You've gotta wonder why this "supposed" vote rigging scheme is so bad in comparison. Why they never rebelled in support of people who were actually disenfranchised.
Dave We all know the answer to your questions. And the article I just put up from Scientific American explain quite a lot.
But I just read something on Yahoo! News (from HuffPost) that made my blood run cold. I'll publish it later today. This is a national nightmare brought on by a mentally ill president!
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