Rep. Liz Cheney.Photo: Tom Williams/getty
Multiple Republican members of Congress are backing House Democrats in their resolution for the impeachment of PresidentDonald Trump.
Reps. Liz Cheney, John Katko and Adam Kinzinger all issued statements Tuesday saying that they will vote in favor of impeachment when the House votes on Wednesday.
“Much more will become clear in coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough,“said Cheney, 54, a Wyoming lawmaker who is the chair of the House Republican Conference. “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President.”
Like Cheney, both Katko, of New York, and Illinois' Kinzinger said that there is enough evidence to impeach Trump, who wascharged with “incitement of insurrection"in the article of impeachment that was formally introduced on Monday.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger.Ismail Hakki Demir/Getty Images
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“There is no doubt in my mind that the President of the United States broke his oath of office and incited this insurrection,” Kinzinger said in hisstatementTuesday.
“He used his position in the Executive to attack the Legislative. So in assessing the articles of impeachment brought before the House, I must consider: if these actions–the Article II branch inciting a deadly insurrection against the Article I branch–are not worthy of impeachment, then what is an impeachable offense?” Kinzinger said. “I will vote in favor of impeachment.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedlysupports the impeachment effort, sources told theNew York TimesTuesday. CNN similarly reported that sources said McConnell “hates” Trump for his response to the failed insurrection attempt last Wednesday, which left five people dead and dozens injured.
A spokesperson for McConnell did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Sen. Mitch McConnell.TOM BRENNER/POOL/AFP via Getty
While some House Republicans are supporting impeachment, others introduced Tuesday aresolution to censure Trump"for trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 Presidential election and violating his oath of office on January 6, 2021.”
Thegroup is arguingthat “the House’s impeachment efforts will almost certainly result in asecond acquittalof President Trump, which would even further divide and inflame tensions in our nation” and would “underminePresident-elect Biden’s ability to govern effectively at the beginning and most critical time of his presidency.”
Meanwhile, Trump hasrefused to accept responsibilityfor inciting the attempted coup, saying Tuesday that his speech to a group of supporters — in which he told them to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” — was “totally appropriate.”
source: people.com
