Members of Minnesota s Congressional delegation condemned violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon.
Supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol on Wednesday, disrupting the proceedings underway that would finalize Joe Biden s victory over Trump.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat serving Minneapolis, tweeted that she s drawing up Articles of Impeachment. Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office by the United States Senate. We can t allow him to remain in office, it s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath, Omar wrote.
Democrats have called out Trump and other Republicans for provoking the riots at the Capitol. Trump continued to maintain, without evidence, that there was fraud in the election, in statements Wednesday afternoon.