Dear Friend,
Later today, I will vote to impeach Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection. I believe it’s my obligation to tell you why this step is necessary.
For more than two months, the President has used his platform as the leader of our nation to spread dangerous lies regarding the results of the 2020 presidential election. He repeatedly used rhetoric designed to divide the American people and rile up his base. And he even went so far as to pressure Georgia’s Secretary of State into finding votes to overturn their election results.
That alone was a despicable abuse of power.
But he didn’t stop there. President Trump spent weeks telling his supporters to flock to Washington to help overturn the will of the American people on January 6th, and when he addressed the crowd last Wednesday, he told them to go to the United States Capitol and “fight like hell” on his behalf.
Thousands of his supporters descended on the Capitol where they assaulted police officers, vandalized the building, hunted down elected officials they felt were disloyal to the President, and attacked our democracy. In short, it was a failed insurrection, a failed attempt to overturn your votes and overthrow our government.
As I told you last week, the President bears direct responsibility for the attack and should have resigned that same evening. Knowing that he would never willingly give up power, Vice President Pence should have invoked the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
Since neither the President nor his Vice President are capable of putting the future of our Democracy ahead of their own political ambitions, I will vote today to impeach Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection.
This article will pass the House, and it will do so with Republican support. Then it will be up to the Senate to uphold their constitutional obligation to try and convict this President and bar him from ever tarnishing the Office of the Presidency again.
Thank you for your trust in me to do what’s necessary to protect our Democracy and to send a clear message to future presidents that this kind of behavior has no place in our nation.
Sincerely,
