Three Republican congressmen announce they will support the impeachment of Donald Trump

Washington DC– Three Republican congressmen announced today that they will vote in favor of the impeachment of Donald Trump hours before the federal lower house approves an appeal to Vice President Michael Pence to ask the cabinet to incapacitate the president of the United States.

Congressmen Liz Cheney (Wyoming), Adam Kizinger (Illinois) and John Katko (New York) made the announcement separately after it was revealed that the Republican leadership will not push to defend Trump.

“There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States who was in charge and the oath of the Constitution”, said Cheney (Wyoming), number three in the minority federal house and daughter of former Vice President Richard Cheney.

Liz Cheney is a critic of Trump who, on the day of the attack on the Capitol by his followers, urged his followers to demand bills from Congress, saying, “We need to get rid of the weak congressmen, those who are not good, the Liz Cheney. World “.

Kinzinger, for his part, affirmed that “he has no doubt that the President of the United States broke the promise he made when he took office and sparked the uprising.”

Congressman John Katko (New York) was the first to report that he will vote to fire Trump, who is accused of instigating the uprising with the statements he made to his followers on the day of the attack on the Capitol. Encourage to Go Congress is demanding a reversal of the result of the electoral college, confirming the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

The attack on the Capitol by gangs associated with Trump resulted in five deaths, disrupted the constitutional process of voting at electoral colleges, and endangered the lives of Vice President Michael Pence and members of Congress, who are in a safe place. place to hide.

“Allowing the President of the United States to provoke this attack without provoking consequences is a direct threat to the future of our democracy. For that reason I cannot stay without acting “Katko told Syracuse.com.

On the other hand, The New York Times said the majority leader of the Republican Senate, Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), believes Trump’s actions deserve impeachment, which in turn would help Republicans reduce their political power.

At least a dozen Republicans in the lower house have already decided to vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment, according to legislative sources.

It would be the first time that the plenary session of the House of Representatives twice recommended the dismissal of the same president.

Trump was charged in December 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over the unnecessary pressure he put on the president of Ukraine in an attempt to harm Biden politically.

On that occasion, not a single Republican in the House of Representatives voted to propose Trump’s impeachment to Sendo. Then the Republican-dominated Senate abolished it. Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) was the only Republican to vote to impeach Trump.

The lower house will vote tonight on the resolution formally calling on Vice President Pence to call on the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to bring the government cabinet together and declare that the president is disqualified from ruling.

The resolution establishes a 24-hour period before considering the resolution formally attributing to Trump instigating the uprising with the messages to his followers, so that they go to Congress to demand that the results of the electoral college, that the won Democrat Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on January 20.

The House Rules Committee is meeting tonight to order tomorrow’s historic debate that may end with the passage, for the second time, of allegations of impeachment against President Trump.

The Democratic Majority of the Legal Committee, meanwhile, has published a report defending President Trump’s impeachment.

“The House must reject this scandalous attempt to reverse the election and incite violence by a sitting president against his own government. President Trump has committed a serious crime and felony against the nation by provoking an uprising on Capitol Hill in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The facts show that he is unable to sue in one day and justify the immediate impeachment of President Trump, ”the report said.

In the Senate, South Carolina’s Tim Scott, the only African-American in the Republican Senators’ caucus, said he will oppose Trump’s impeachment, knowing that it goes against President-elect Biden’s interest in soothe partisan waters. .

“An accusation will only cause more hatred and a deeply broken nation. I am against the removal of President Trump, ”said Scott.