The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump Wednesday, following the pro-Trump mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., indicated he wouldn t hold a trial before Trump leaves office next week.
A small number of House Republicans voted to impeach Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection. However, the vote divided largely along party lines.
Ohio s Democratic representatives supported impeachment and its Republican members did not – with the exception of Rep. Anthony Gonzalez. The president of the United States helped organize and incite a mob that attacked the United States Congress in an attempt to prevent us from completing our solemn duties as prescribed by the Constitution,” Gonzalez said in a statement.
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Lawmakers argue that Trump’s rhetoric leading up to the incident at the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 “gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government.”
“(Trump) threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government,” the impeachment resolution reads. “He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”
The attack on the Capitol came the morning that Congress was scheduled to vote to certify the electoral college results, officially naming Joe Biden as President-elect, which Garcia also voted against.