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Democrats now have the votes to impeach Trump — again
President Trump may be on the verge of securing his very own place in U.S. history — as the only president to be impeached twice. House Democrats have lined up the votes to impeach Trump for his role in inciting an insurrectionist mob to storm the Capitol, I’m told. And not a moment too soon: The urgency of impeaching and removing Trump has only mounted in the days since the attack. “We actually have the votes,” Rep. David Cicilline, the Rhode Island Democrat who has taken the lead in rounding up support for a resolution of impeachment, told me. “There’s no doubt about that.”
Yes, Congress should impeach Trump before he leaves office
As the House of Representatives takes the extraordinary step of considering a second impeachment of President Trump during his final days in office, two questions loom large: Did Trump commit impeachable offenses? And does it make sense to impeach even though the Senate may not try and convict him before he leaves office on Jan. 20? The answer to both questions is yes.
We in Congress must impeach Donald Trump
On Wednesday, our nation watched in horror as a violent mob stormed the steps of the US Capitol and attempted to halt the certification of electoral votes and the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. These domestic terrorists had been egged on by none other than the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump, who continues to baselessly deny that he lost his bid for reelection in the November election. At a rally just hours before, Trump encouraged his followers to fight and promised that neither he nor they would ever concede the election.
Why We Are Introducing an Article of Impeachment
Since his resounding defeat in the presidential election in November, Donald Trump has done everything but concede to the democratic will of the American people. He unleashed an avalanche of lies and baseless claims of fraud — conspiracy theories that filled his supporters with a delusional belief that the election had been stolen from him. He filed a bevy of absurd lawsuits. He attempted to cajole and intimidate officials at all levels of government into subverting the election and keeping him in office. And then, running out of recourse, legitimate and illegitimate, he incited an...
Cicilline urges CDC chief to alert states of travelers from any countries with coronavirus
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) called Tuesday on the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to alert state governments to incoming travelers arriving from countries experiencing coronavirus outbreaks.
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Another Democrat in the U.S. Congress is sounding alarms about the Amazon-Whole Foods deal
Rep. David Cicilline, the leading Democrat on the House’s antitrust committee, is asking for a hearing.
Another Democrat in the U.S. Congress is sounding alarms about the Amazon-Whole Foods deal
Rep. David Cicilline, the leading Democrat on the House’s antitrust committee, is asking for a hearing.