The United States Senate was not just the jury in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

Senators themselves were among the targets of the attack he provoked and the trial was conducted at the scene of the crime.

Yet 43 senators — all Republicans — CHOSE to disregard the obvious truth that Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection in an attempt to overturn the election he lost.

Whether they did this because of political cowardice or because they have joined the Trump cult, these 43 senators have invited further political violence and imperiled the American experiment in democracy.

• These 43 senators have brought America to the brink of authoritarianism by licensing the use (or at least the threat) of violence by those seeking to achieve or retain political power.

• These 43 senators will have blood on their hands the next time Trump or some other political extremist provokes an attack on a government building or elected officials.

• These 43 senators have affirmed their allegiance (or, at best, deference) to the proto-fascist, white-supremacist “politics” personified by Trump.

• These 43 senators have forsaken any claim to love of country and even the most basic tenets of democracy.

• These 43 senators have violated their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

• These 43 senators will go down in history as political cowards who put rank partisanship before real patriotism.

Join Public Citizen in delivering a message to these 43 senators:

You have opened the door to ongoing political violence and may have set our country on a path toward authoritarianism. You are clearly incapable of feeling shame, but know this: History, if it remembers you at all, will remember you as an apologist for mob violence and a traitor to democracy.

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For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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