Month: January 2021
Donald Trump speaks to insurrectionists occupying Capitol: ‘I love you. You’re very special’
For more than two hours, the nation’s capital has been under siege. Police have been injured, a woman has been shot, at least one improvised explosive device has been found. Both chambers of Congress have invaded by a mob of armed insurrectionists intent on overthrowing the elected government, congressional offices are being ransacked, and both the Senate and House have been evacuated along with several other federal buildings. All of this came after Donald Trump told his supporters he was going to march with them “up Pennsylvania Avenue” to the Capitol, where they would “cheer” for Republicans opposing the counting of the Electoral College vote.
But Trump didn’t march. He didn’t walk so much as a block. Instead, he got back into his car and returned to the White House. As a result, many of his supporters were convinced that Trump was still physically with them, even when the assault on the Capitol building began. Even as his supporters shoved over barriers, smashed through windows, broke open doors, and injured police to occupy the Capitol and threaten both legislators and their staffs. In those hours, Trump has issued only two milquetoast tweets, neither of which called on the terrorists who came to Washington, D.C. at his invitation to halt their invasion. Trump hasn’t just failed to issue a call to end this attempted insurrection, he has refused.
Multiple sources have reported that several people inside the White House, including Mike Pence, have called on Trump to issue a stronger statement to his followers. However, Trump is said to be angry at Pence for failing to overturn the election results … so he’s holding the whole nation hostage to his pout.
Pence has issued his own statement saying that “those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” However, that also remains to be seen. Having gathered his followers together under the promise of a “wild” time; having spent months inflaming them with lies about a stolen election; and having spent years teaching his followers to disregard every other source … there is every reason to expect that, far from prosecuting the terrorists, Trump will issue a blanket pardon.
At 4 PM EST, President-elect Joe Biden issued a statement in which he said: “This is not protest. It is insurrection.” He called on Trump to go on national television and end this attempted overthrow of the nation.
Fifteen minutes later, Trump issued a statement to the terrorists saying: “I love you. You’re very special. I know how you feel.” In the video, Trump continued to insist that the election was stolen and he won in a landslide.
Trump did say for terrorists to “go home in peace.” That’s one hell of a lot different from “prosecuted the fullest extent of the law.”
Liberals call for Trump’s impeachment and removal amid Capitol mayhem
Democrats and critics of President Trump said Wednesday that he needs to be impeached and removed from office once order is restored at the U.S. Capitol.
"When order is restored, the president needs to be impeached and convicted immediately," tweeted Larry Summers, a former economic adviser in the Obama administration. ...
Mitch McConnell has presided over the ruin of the Republican Party. Congrats
In four years, Donald Trump cost Republicans control of the House, the White House, and the Senate—so goes the celebratory refrain among liberals on Twitter. But the person who truly made the electoral demise of the Republican Party possible was the man who Washington reporters have praised for a decade as the GOP's master tactician—the puppeteer supposedly pulling strings behind the scenes while everyone else simply served as marionettes on his stage.
That man, erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will almost surely be ordering new letterhead once all the votes are counted. In the two crucial Georgia Senate runoffs, Democrat Raphael Warnock has been declared the victor and the other Democrat, Jon Ossoff, felt confident enough about his growing lead to declare victory Wednesday morning. Sure, it was Trump's buffoonish domination of the spotlight over the past four years made the glare of the GOP's moral bankruptcy burn too bright for many moderate-to-conservative voters to ignore. But Trump was simply the outward manifestation of McConnell's inner decay.
In his relentless pursuit of power and securing a lasting legacy in the courts, McConnell happily abandoned his oath of office and any inkling of patriotism to play footsie with Trump throughout his grotesque tenure as de facto head of the GOP. In fact, McConnell helped clear the way for Trump's corrupt elevation to office when he refused to sign on to a bipartisan statement revealing Russian interference in the 2016 election. When Trump declared neo-Nazis "very fine people" in 2017, McConnell led Republicans in declining to condemn the comments. And after a mountain of evidence showed Trump had extorted the leader of Ukraine in his bid to smear a political rival and win reelection, McConnell lined up the Republican votes to acquit Trump of impeachment charges without hearing from a single witness in the Senate.
So when it came time for McConnell to shoot down Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results before it blossomed into a full-blown coup attempt, it came as no surprise that McConnell spent more than five weeks diddling around before finally acknowledging Joe Biden as the country's rightful president-elect.
But now, suddenly, as McConnell faces a return to the Senate minority, he and his allies apparently think it's time to wipe off that Trump stench and start anew.
"Emotions running high among McConnell-aligned Republicans early Wednesday am — after reality of what transpired in Georgia settled in," National Journal columnist Josh Kraushaar tweeted early Wednesday morning. "May be the heat of the moment, but mood is for declaring war on Team Trump. Want to marginalize Trump as they marginalized Steve Bannon in 2017."
Wow—now that Trump simultaneously alienated suburban voters while failing to turn out enough of his cultists to deliver wins in Georgia, McConnell and his cronies are going to take a stand. Bold.
Sorry, fellas, that ship has sailed. McConnell & Co. aided and abetted Trump for four solid years, presiding over the destruction of America's institutions and democratic norms and leaving the country in tatters. But now that the GOP's electoral future is in peril and the party is descending into a bitter civil war, McConnell and his allies think they can just brush Trump off their shoulders like a pesky bout of dandruff.
Go ahead, declare war on Trump. History will remember. And in the meantime, McConnell and the Republican Party will now reap what they sowed—total fucking chaos with no end in sight.
Pence rejects Trump stance on blocking Biden’s win
Vice President Mike Pence rejected President Donald Trump’s last-ditch pressure campaign to reverse the 2020 election results, delivering the fatal blow to the president's attempt to subvert President-elect Joe Biden's win.
Vice President Mike Pence rejected President Donald Trump’s last-ditch pressure campaign to attempt to reverse the 2020 election results, delivering the fatal blow to the president's already-doomed attempt to subvert President-elect Joe Biden's win.
Moments later, Pence launched the joint session of Congress at which Biden's electoral votes will be counted, finalizing his victory ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. Pence, who is constitutionally required to preside over the joint session of Congress at which Biden's electors will be counted, delivered his verdict while Trump was speaking at a neayby rally and declared he would be "very disappointed" in his vice president if he refused to attempt to block BIden's victory.
But Pence has no authority, constitutionally or legally, to reject Biden's electors, and he acknowledged as much in three-page letter to lawmakers he distributed moments before taking to the House floor alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not," Pence wrote.
The development was followed quickly by a breach of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters, instigated by the president earlier in the day. Trump issued a belated call for protests to be "peaceful," but just minutes earlier, Trump supporters broke through Capitol entryways and forced the session to be shut down indefinitely. Pence was whisked from the Capitol amid increasingly dire security alerts, and lawmakers barricaded on the House floor reported harrowing danger and chaos inside the Capitol.
The eroding security situation delayed the certification of Biden's victory, which is a certainty but has now been marred by mob violence that threatens to engulf the day.
Before the delay, Pence had hinted that he’ll operate in the traditional mold of vice presidents at these crucial transition-of-power sessions, despite Trump's increasingly pointed entreaties, which continued Wednesday morning.
"If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency," Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. He also used a rally at the White House to deride what he termed "weak Republicans" who refused to help him overturn the election. "We have to primary the hell out of the ones who don't fight."
Pence's decision is likely to turn a potentially wild day into a more predictable, if lengthy, affair. Trump's GOP loyalists are expected to mount formal challenges to Biden's electors, a process envisioned in federal law, that will be easily rejected in both chambers but will force a series of two-hour debates that could plunge the ceremony deep into the night and possibly into Thursday. But the end result has never been in doubt: Biden's victory will be officially sealed.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who intends to preside over each of the House debates, has encouraged Democrats to treat them as a chance to voice support for the democratic process rather than turn the session into a referendum on Trump. And she relied on some of the key architects of the House's impeachment strategy to devise the pushback plan on the GOP challenges. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) delivered the first remarks for Democrats, urging colleagues to reject the assault on democratic instituttions.
The first challenge emerged when Pence introduced Arizona's electors. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) stood up and said he and 60 House colleagues objected. The challenge was joined by several GOP senators, forcing the chambers to split up and debate. But the Democratically controlled House and the closely divided Senate are poised to overwhelmingly reject the challenges, with many Senate Republicans signaling they had no interest in joining with Trump's allies.
In fact, no challenges to electors have ever been upheld. The last time objectors forced a debate came in 2005, when Democrats cited irregularities in Ohio's election results. The challenge was easily swept aside in both chambers. House Democrats also objected to the results in 2001 and 2017 but no senators joined them.
The one remaining wildcard this week is the security environment in the capital. Trump's pressure campaign, which has fractured the GOP, has also activated thousands of marchers to descend on D.C. — drawing acute security concerns. As the session got underway, two congressional office buildings were ordered evacuated. The House sergeant at arms has urged lawmakers to traverse the Capitol's underground tunnel network rather than forge into the demonstrations, and the city has encouraged residents to remain at home and avoid any confrontations with those who show up.
Republicans also entered Wednesday in a deflated state after losing one — and likely both — Senate runoff races in Georgia, an outcome that seems poised to relegate them to minority status in the chamber and dash hopes of operating as a counterweight to the Biden presidency. It led some of Trump's Republican detractors to question the wisdom of proceeding with a process aimed at delegitimizing the election results.
Inside the Capitol, the effort has splintered Trump’s party, with more than 100 House Republicans and at least a dozen Senate Republicans objecting to Biden’s victory while Senate GOP leadership warned their caucus against the effort. Already, senators are signaling they’ll challenge results in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, and a wave of legal challenges by Trump to reverse several states’ results failed at every level of state and federal court.
Pence foreshadowed his posture in recent days. He told Trump at a Tuesday lunch that he will simply follow procedures allowing GOP objections and possibly make a statement related to election fraud during the process, two White House sources told POLITICO. But late Tuesday, Trump denied the suggestion and went even further, alleging that he and Pence are in complete agreement that Pence has unilateral power to "decertify" election results in multiple states and deny Biden the presidency.
Pence never had that authority, either under the Constitution or the laws governing the counting of electoral votes, but Trump's attempt to box him in suggests he's seeking to pin his defeat on Pence's required actions.
“All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.
Pence has spent the weeks leading up to this moment poring over legal opinions related to the 133-year-old Electoral Count Act, which governs the proceedings, and consulting with chief of staff Marc Short and General Counsel Greg Jacob about his role. Part of his intense preparation included a Sunday night visit to the Senate parliamentarian to discuss his statutory obligations. In years past, the vice president’s ceremonial role has barely merited a mention — except for the awkwardness of 2001 and 2017, when Al Gore and Joe Biden were required to certify their rivals’ victories.
Lawmakers in both parties spent much of this week strategizing over the floor antics, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has worked with key state delegation leaders on details such as the order of speeches on the floor. Congressional leaders also have discussed how to keep another threat — the coronavirus — at bay, while hundreds of lawmakers are on the floor Wednesday and likely into Thursday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, the Capitol physician issued a memo urging lawmakers to maintain distance in the chamber — a difficult task with the entire Congress forced to spend at least some time in the House chamber at the same time.
To help manage his conference, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has worked to ensure Republicans on both sides of the issue can deliver some of the five-minute floor speeches permitted during Wednesday’s debate, according to GOP sources.
But debate on this raged into Wednesday morning, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) indicating the thinking had changed and those opposed to challenging the election results would now only be permitted to speak if Democrats allowed them to. It's unclear if Democrats intend to incorporate any Republicans into their floor time.
McCarthy, who has defended Trump’s push to subvert the election, has not said how he plans to vote or whether he will join any of the objections. And sources familiar with McCarthy’s thinking don’t expect him to announce his position ahead of time.
Meanwhile, Democrats are preparing an impeachment-like strategy for countering the GOP challenges. Pelosi — who intends to preside for the entirety of the House debates — has tapped two of her trusted impeachment managers, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), along with Reps. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to coordinate strategy.
Democrats are also going to lean on delegations from the challenged states to push back on GOP talking points about fraud and misconduct, for which there is no substantial evidence. Pennsylvania Democrats held a conference call Tuesday to develop a pushback plan.
For Trump, who has pressed his Hill allies to challenge Biden’s victory for weeks, the effort to remain in power comes as he and his company face increasing legal peril in expanding investigations led by the Manhattan district attorney and the state of New York. For the lawmakers backing his effort, it's a reflection of Trump's grip on the base of the Republican Party who view efforts to overturn the 2020 election results as the ultimate loyalty test.
Trump supporters amassed Wednesday morning by the White House for a rally that featured speeches from Trump, his adult sons and other loyalists. The unpredictable turnout has already led Mayor Muriel Bowser to urge local residents to remain at home amid the demonstrations and avoid confrontation. D.C. officials even called in the National Guard to help maintain security in the capital. The city’s police chief, Robert Contee III, has cited information that some protesters have intended to come armed, and Bowser has issued public reminders about the city’s strict firearm laws.
Lawmakers have been urged to gather inside the Capitol at least four hours before proceedings begin to avoid crowds. The House sergeant at arms also urged lawmakers to use the Capitol’s underground tunnel networks, rather than risk forging into the crowd of marchers.
Wednesday’s session “is about guaranteeing trust in our democratic system,” Pelosi said in a letter to Democratic colleagues Tuesday night. “As Members of Congress, we all have a responsibility to uphold the principle: the people are sovereign and that they hold the power to choose their leaders through the ballot box.”
Moments after informing lawmakers that he was rebuffing Trump, Pence launched the joint session of Congress at which Biden's electoral votes will be counted, finalizing his victory ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. Pence, who is constitutionally required to preside over the bicameral session of Congress at which Biden's electors will be counted, delivered his verdict while Trump was speaking at a nearby rally. Trump had declared he would be "very disappointed" in his vice president if he refused to attempt to block BIden's victory.
But Pence has no authority, constitutionally or legally, to reject Biden's electors, and he acknowledged as much in three-page letter to lawmakers he distributed moments before taking to the House floor alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not," Pence wrote.
Pence had hinted that he’ll operate in the traditional mold of vice presidents at these crucial transition-of-power sessions, despite Trump's increasingly pointed entreaties, which continued Wednesday morning.
"If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency," Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. He also used a rally at the White House to deride what he termed "weak Republicans" who refused to help him overturn the election. "We have to primary the hell out of the ones who don't fight."
Pence's decision is likely to turn a potentially wild day into a more predictable, if lengthy, affair. Trump's GOP loyalists are mounting formal challenges to Biden's electors, a process envisioned in federal law, that will be rejected in both chambers but will force a series of two-hour debates that could push the ceremony deep into the night and possibly into Thursday. But the end result has never been in doubt: Biden's victory will be officially sealed.
The first challenge emerged when Pence introduced Arizona's electors. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) stood up and said he and 60 House colleagues objected. The challenge was joined by several GOP senators, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), forcing the chambers to split up and debate. But the Democratically controlled House and the closely divided Senate are poised to overwhelmingly reject the challenges, with many Senate Republicans signaling they had no interest in joining with Trump's allies.
In fact, no challenges to electors have ever been upheld. The last time objectors forced a debate came in 2005, when Democrats cited irregularities in Ohio's election results. The challenge was easily swept aside in both chambers. House Democrats also objected to the results in 2001 and 2017 but no senators joined them.
Pelosi, who will preside over each of the House debates, has encouraged Democrats to treat them as a chance to voice support for the democratic process rather than turn the session into a referendum on Trump. And she relied on some of the key architects of the House's impeachment strategy to devise the pushback plan on the GOP challenges. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) delivered the first remarks for Democrats, urging colleagues to reject the assault on democratic institutions.
The one remaining wildcard this week is the security environment in the capital. Trump's pressure campaign, which has fractured the GOP, has also activated thousands of marchers to descend on D.C. — drawing acute security concerns. As the session got underway, two congressional office buildings were ordered evacuated. The House sergeant at arms has urged lawmakers to traverse the Capitol's underground tunnel network rather than forge into the demonstrations, and the city has encouraged residents to remain at home and avoid any confrontations with those who show up.
Republicans also entered Wednesday in a deflated state after losing one — and likely both — Senate runoff races in Georgia, an outcome that seems poised to relegate them to minority status in the chamber and dash hopes of operating as a counterweight to the Biden presidency. It led some of Trump's Republican detractors to question the wisdom of proceeding with a process aimed at delegitimizing the election results.
Inside the Capitol, the effort has splintered Trump’s party, with more than 100 House Republicans and at least a dozen Senate Republicans objecting to Biden’s victory while Senate GOP leadership warned their caucus against the effort. Already, senators are signaling they’ll challenge results in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, and a wave of legal challenges by Trump to reverse several states’ results failed at every level of state and federal court.
Pence foreshadowed his posture in recent days. He told Trump at a Tuesday lunch that he will simply follow procedures allowing GOP objections and possibly make a statement related to election fraud during the process, two White House sources told POLITICO. But late Tuesday, Trump denied the suggestion and went even further, alleging that he and Pence are in complete agreement that Pence has unilateral power to "decertify" election results in multiple states and deny Biden the presidency.
Pence never had that authority, either under the Constitution or the laws governing the counting of electoral votes, but Trump's attempt to box him in suggests he's seeking to pin his defeat on Pence's required actions.
“All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.
Lawmakers in both parties spent much of this week strategizing over the floor antics, including Pelosi, who has worked with key state delegation leaders on details such as the order of speeches on the floor. Congressional leaders also have discussed how to keep another threat — the coronavirus — at bay, while hundreds of lawmakers are on the floor Wednesday and likely into Thursday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, the Capitol physician issued a memo urging lawmakers to maintain distance in the chamber — a difficult task with the entire Congress forced to spend at least some time in the House chamber at the same time.
To help manage his conference, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has worked to ensure Republicans on both sides of the issue can deliver some of the five-minute floor speeches permitted during Wednesday’s debate, according to GOP sources.
But debate on this raged into Wednesday morning, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) indicating the thinking had changed and those opposed to challenging the election results would now only be permitted to speak if Democrats allowed them to. It's unclear if Democrats intend to incorporate any Republicans into their floor time.
Meanwhile, Democrats are preparing an impeachment-like strategy for countering the GOP challenges. Pelosi — who intends to preside for the entirety of the House debates — has tapped two of her trusted impeachment managers, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Lofgren, along with Reps. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to coordinate strategy.
Democrats are also going to lean on delegations from the challenged states to push back on GOP talking points about fraud and misconduct, for which there is no substantial evidence. Pennsylvania Democrats held a conference call Tuesday to develop a pushback plan.
For Trump, who has pressed his Hill allies to challenge Biden’s victory for weeks, the effort to remain in power comes as he and his company face increasing legal peril in expanding investigations led by the Manhattan district attorney and the state of New York. For the lawmakers backing his effort, it's a reflection of Trump's grip on the base of the Republican Party who view efforts to overturn the 2020 election results as the ultimate loyalty test.
Trump supporters amassed Wednesday morning by the White House for a rally that featured speeches from Trump, his adult sons and other loyalists. The unpredictable turnout has already led Mayor Muriel Bowser to urge local residents to remain at home amid the demonstrations and avoid confrontation. D.C. officials even called in the National Guard to help maintain security in the capital. The city’s police chief, Robert Contee III, has cited information that some protesters have intended to come armed, and Bowser has issued public reminders about the city’s strict firearm laws.
Kentucky Capitol: Yard signs call for governor’s impeachment
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Protesters placed signs outside Kentucky's Capitol calling for the governor's impeachment as state lawmakers opened their 2021 session Tuesday. Another sign declared: “Make hanging traitors great again,” months after the governor was hanged in effigy for his COVID-19 restrictions.
Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, downplayed the ...
Some Democrats want to move past Trump. But ignoring his seditious acts threatens American democracy
New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries delivered a message Monday about the posture of House Democrats' leadership team regarding Donald Trump's relentless attempts to engineer a fascist takeover of the American republic.
“We’re not looking backward," Jeffries told reporters during a press conference. "We’re looking forward to the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20th.”
That forward-looking vision came less than 24 hours after the Washington Post posted smoking-gun audio of an hour-long phone call in which Trump (aka Mafia Don) attempted to threaten and cajole Georgia's top election officials to "find" enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
Nonetheless, Kate Bedingfield, an adviser to President-elect Joe Biden offered a similar take to Jeffries, saying, "The country is ready to move forward."
But the problem with simply rushing past Mafia Don's political grave is that ignoring his seditious acts is as much a threat to the future of American democracy as Trump's failed efforts were in the first place. In short—seditious, traitorous acts left unchecked beget seditious, traitorous acts. In fact, Senate Republicans with the twinkle of 2024 presidential bids in their eyes are already lining up in support of Trump's effort to tear down democracy in order to maintain his grip on power. Trump's final gambit is all but certain to fail on Wednesday during a joint session of Congress to certify the election results, but the major takeaway is that plenty of future GOP Trumps are waiting in the wings to trash representative democracy on the way to meeting their own political ends unless a price is exacted for doing so. And the lesson those Republicans have learned so far—just as Trump learned from his acquittal—is that there's no serious price to pay, political or otherwise, for betraying the country.
Both the incoming Biden administration and Congress have a role to play in safeguarding our democracy for generations to come. One is criminal and the other is a matter of governance. Biden must appoint smart, resolute leaders to the Justice Department and then simply get out of the way and let them do their jobs. Hamstringing justice in any way with regard to Trump's endless assault on the law and the Constitution would be disastrous for the country's future. But Biden can easily make those appointments to the Department of Justice and then rightfully send the message that his administration is focused on the task of righting the ship in regard to the pandemic and the faltering economy.
House Democrats, however, cannot afford to simply move along, as if the threat to our democracy ends once Trump is summarily booted from the White House residence. That is a patently false contention given the upheaval we are already witnessing in the Republican party. Trump must be held to account. That can be done in several ways, a couple of which are already in process.
One way is by making a criminal referral to the FBI over Trump's attempted election crimes, an investigation that Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Kathleen Rice of New York are already urging FBI Director Chris Wray to undertake.
Another possibility is censuring Trump over his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson introduced a censure motion on Monday with the support of 90 of his colleagues. That number will likely grow in the coming days and weeks as Congress gets back to work—or at least, it should grow, since there are presently 222 Democratic members of the House.
Impeachment is another potential option, but to what end at this point? Trump is just over two weeks away from removal and, as we have already seen, the effort would surely be blocked by the GOP-controlled Senate. Heck, more than a quarter of the Senate Republican caucus has jumped aboard Team coup at this point.
What does seem a worthy effort, however, is continued investigations of Trump and his minions. Not only do the facts need to come out, but if Democrats are to draft legislation to safeguard our democracy against future Trumps, they will need to know exactly what actions he and his enablers took in their extensive efforts to kneecap America's institutions and systems of governance.
But none of those three options—a criminal referral, censure, and ongoing investigations—amount to simply "looking forward." What is past will haunt the nation and Democrats, in particular, if it is buried before an autopsy can be conducted and people held to account for their roles in assaulting and undermining America’s democracy.
Clyburn says pursuing Trump impeachment 'would be a waste of our time'
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Tuesday poured cold water on the idea of pursuing impeachment proceedings against President Trump over a phone call between him and Georgia's secretary of state, but said officials in Georgia should...
New Trump impeachment? Top Democrats show no interest in ‘Squad’ push
A renewed interest in impeaching President Trump from members of the so-called "Squad" is not catching on among top House Democrats.
James Clyburn: ‘Waste of our time’ to pursue Trump impeachment over Georgia phone call
House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Tuesday it would be a waste of time for Congress to pursue impeachment proceedings over President Trump's weekend phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
"With only 14 or 15 days left in this presidency, it would be a waste of our ...