The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Trump for the second time, moving with extraordinary speed after the deadly U.S. Capitol siege that has become a dramatic final chapter to an unprecedented presidency.
House lawmakers voted 232-197 to impeach Trump, with 10 Republicans voting yes alongside the Democrats in a bipartisan effort. Roll Call Vote
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2021
Trump is now the sole president to be impeached twice. He was first impeached in 2019, but was acquitted early last year by the U.S. Senate.
The president was charged with “incitement of insurrection” just a week after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, smashing windows, looting and ransacking rooms in an afternoon of violence that sent lawmakers scurrying for shelter and left five people dead.
Trump on Tuesday called the lightning-quick impeachment effort “a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt” in American history and warned it was “causing tremendous danger to our country.” He issued a statement Wednesday urging “NO violence, NO lawbreaking” and calling on “ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”
Here are the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump.
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Liz Cheney of Wyoming
John Katko of New York
Fred Upton of Michigan
Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Dan Newhouse of Washington
Peter Meijer of Michigan
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Tom Rice of South Carolina
David Valadao of California
House lawmakers debated whether to impeach Trump for several hours Wednesday afternoon, with arguments largely falling along party lines as Democrats painted Trump as a “danger” while Republicans called for “healing” instead of a “sham impeachment.”
“We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
WATCH: @FrankLuntz is forced to admit that over 91% of Trump supporters would vote for President Trump again pic.twitter.com/iNPdfWvZBq
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 14, 2021
But U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a staunch Trump ally, blasted Democrats’ “obsession” with “cancel culture.”
“We should be focused on bringing the nation together. Instead, Democrats are going to impeach the president for a second time one week — one week — before he leaves office,” Jordan said. “Why? Politics, and the fact that they want to cancel the president.”
With all due respect to Rep. Crenshaw, this is a minority view within the minority party. https://t.co/Q0kVVhlH4m
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 13, 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said that while Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack on the Capitol impeaching him with just one week left in his term would be a “mistake.”
“No investigations have been completed,” McCarthy said, adding that “a vote to impeach will further divide the nation.”
House lawmakers rushed to impeach Trump before his term expired on Jan. 20 while simultaneously urging Vice President Mike Pence and the dwindling number of Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip Trump of his powers. Pence rejected those calls, telling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter Tuesday that he did “not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our Constitution.”
The entire Massachusetts delegation in the House, all Democrats, had signed on to the single article of impeachment against Trump.
“We are debating this historic measure at an actual crime scene, and we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the president of the United States,” U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said during a morning rules debate on the impeachment article.
At least six GOP lawmakers had pledged to impeach Trump before the vote, including U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming the No. 3 House Republican, who is now facing calls to remove her from her leadership post.
But U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, warned that a second impeachment coupled with a Senate conviction could make Trump a “martyr” and encourage his supporters.
Aides of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have reportedly told Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s staff that McConnell won’t call senators into emergency session to deal with a potential impeachment trial.
The Senate currently is not scheduled to meet again until Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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This was ANOTHER of the hate consumed Nasty Nancy Pelosi’s kangaroo court impeachment circus.
Facts? We don’t need any stinking “Facts”.
#1. “FACT CHECK: Trump’s call to action distorted in debate.
Reschenthaler accurately quoted a line from Trump, when the president told supporters
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
But throughout his remarks, Trump spoke of the need to “fight,” to be angry, to stop President-elect Joe Biden from taking office.
Fight: noun
1. a battle or combat.
2. any contest or struggle.
Did Beijing Biden fight to gain the dishonorable Democrat’s presidential nomination?
Did Nancy Pelosi constantly and personally fight against President Trump for the last 4 years??
Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration.
Was it not the Democrats that supported and encouraged the Riots, burning, looting and killing in democrat controlled cities all during President Trump’s time in office??
THIS IS pure spite and hate.. NOTHING legal or constitutional about it.
AND everyone of those 10 rinos who voted yes on this, NEED TO BE BOOTED OUT ASAP!
“Trump is now the sole president to be impeached twice.” And Nancy is the first to have the House of Representatives she was in charge of to protect, sacked by angry disenfranchised peasants with pitchforks, and twice use the insanity of using impeachment as a political weapon used so many times with no hope of useable success, it cannot help but come back and be used upon her own party to equal the American scales of justice, scales which like snakeskins, now reside upon the eyes of the blinded American media, and leaders of the American Socialist party that disguises itself as Democratic.
The perpetrators of the French revolution rejoiced in their immediate successes also. Then came the mock trials of their political opponents and Guillotines they offered and then came back upon themselves three fold, followed by the usual dictatorships that snowflakes always turn to for imagined safety before totally melting their nation’s safe places down.
The real reason American democracy is not working , is becasue what the Democrats offer is not Democracy. Demand a name change and the scales will fall from our eyes and the scales of JUSTICE return.
ITS NOT democracy, when OUR VOICE/VOTE doesn’t matter..
“While many Democrats have come to hate America and our history, they reserve a special form of hatred for our 45th President, Donald J. Trump. In truth, he has been despised by many since the day he came down the Trump Tower escalator and announced his presidential campaign. The hatred grew during his campaign and reached a new level of abhorrence after his inauguration.
Since that time, it has only grown more intense. Joining in the hatred of our President are the media, the Deep State, globalists, establishment Republicans, almost all of Hollywood, and most special interest groups. The condition has been accurately labeled Trump Derangement Syndrome.
For many Democrats, politics means everything, for government is their deity. They took the loss in the 2016 presidential election extremely personally. From Hillary Clinton down to neighborhood precinct captains, many Democrats refused to move on from the last election and just accept defeat. This attitude explains the various hoaxes, the non-stop investigations, the refusal to work together on issues in the national interest and the unmitigated hatred toward the President.”
The Democrat Party has become our country’s most deadliest ENEMY! 👿
AND so to, are EVERY ONE of their voters….
Another record set by the greatest president in American history. He should wear this second impeachment by the democraps and RINO’s as a badge of honor.
tom rice will be getting an e-mail from me today!
Mark Levin brought up a great point. The FBI, knew weeks before that militia groups were going to attack the Capitol, as it was posted, by the militia groups, on Facebook and Twitter. The FBI never informed Trump and the FBI clown in Washington DC, blew this off in his news conference, stating that things like this are posted all of the time. Another example of the worthless FBI and it also shows the FBI, ignored these postings, to set up Trump. Christopher Wray, the snake!
IF this happened in any other city, AND THE LOCAL COPS KNEW WHAT WAS happening, and did nothing, THERE’D already be mass firings.
SO WHY NOT for those in the FBI?
The Left impeaches the President with no investigations and no hearings, so what do you think they will do to you? We’ll have a better idea of that after the FBI finishes rounding up everyone they can ID from the Rally and put them on trial, violent rioters inside the Capitol building as well as peaceful protestors caught in the curfew.
RULES.. laws. Those things don’t MATTER anymore.