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TRUMP INCITED VIOLENCE. DEMOCRATS WANT HIM OUT OF OFFICE. NOW.  
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Kara Voght
January 6, 2021
Mother Jones
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_ Members of Congress are calling for the 25th Amendment to be
invoked, or for Trump to be impeached again. _

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial on
August 28, 2020., Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Images

 

After President Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US
Capitol on Wednesday, Democrats in Congress and a Republican governor
are calling for Trump to be removed from office before his term
expires on January 20.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) announced she was drawing up articles of
impeachment late Wednesday afternoon. “Donald J. Trump should be
impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the
United States Senate,” she tweeted
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can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving
our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.” Over the course of
Wednesday evening, at least two dozen House Democrats also announced
their support for impeachment. Many of those in favor are, like Omar,
members of the party’s left flank, a group that had been quick to
call for the president’s impeachment early in his term. But a number
of moderate lawmakers—such as
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Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)—have backed the
measure, as well. Among their Senate colleagues, only Sen. Ed Markey
(D-Mass.) has joined
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latest calls so far.

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), the assistant speaker of the House and
the chamber’s fourth highest-ranking member, called for Trump’s
removal, though did not specify by what means. “Donald Trump is a
traitor to our country and our Constitution,” she said in a
statement. “He must be removed from office and prevented from
further endangering our country and our people.” Rep. Jim McGovern
(D-Mass.), chair of the House Rules Committee, similarly demanded
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removal. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the chair of the House Ways and
Means Committee who has been famously cautious when censuring the
president, called upon administration officials
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invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of a president
from office when he or she is deemed unfit to serve. (House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi has not indicated whether she supports moving forward
with any new formal punishment of the president.)

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a newly-installed member
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the Squad, plans to issue
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resolution calling for the expulsion of Republican members of
Congress who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the election
results. “I believe the Republican members of Congress who have
incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn
the election must face consequences,” she wrote on Twitter. “They
have broken their sacred Oath of Office.”

The calls represent an abrupt shift among Democratic lawmakers who
seemed eager to move on from Trump’s misdeeds when the new Congress
convened earlier this week. News that Trump had pressured
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Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into illegally flipping
Georgia’s electoral votes in the president’s favor drew fierce
condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, but little in the way of
actual punishment. More than 100 lawmakers signed onto
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) resolution to censure the president, while Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called it an “impeachable
offense” but alluded to little interest among her colleagues in
turning impeachment articles around quickly. When asked about whether
Trump should be impeached over the call, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
(D-N.Y.), the chair of the House Democratic caucus, told reporters
“We’re not looking backward, we’re looking forward to the
inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20th.”

Many Republican lawmakers remain committed to overturning the results
of the November election. But a few GOP senators critical of Trump’s
attempts have condemned the president’s efforts to stoke his
supporters to enact the violence they enacted at the Capitol on
Wednesday. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), said in a statement that Trump
“bears responsibility for today’s events by promoting the
unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point.” Sen. Ben
Sasse (R-Neb.) said that the violence “was the inevitable and ugly
outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking
division.” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the only Republican senator to
vote for Trump’s impeachment last year, was the first to denounce
the president. “This is what the president has caused today, this
insurrection,” he told
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York Times _reporter Jonathan Martin.

None, however, have asked Trump to step down. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott
is the only high-ranking Republican calling for Trump to leave office
immediately. “The fabric of our democracy and the principles of our
republic are under attack by the President,” he tweeted
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“Enough is enough.”

_Kara Voght is a reporter in Mother Jones' DC bureau. Reach her at
[email protected]._

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