As a regular USA Today contributor, he had planned weeks ago to write about the certification of president-elect Joe Biden’s victory at the Electoral College. Then I sought to communicate about the constitutional need and political importance of observing this ritual of our democracy. He expected protests in the Capital Region, and he knew that members of the Sedition Caucus, Republicans who need to overturn a Democratic election, would record their stupid and damned objections, but he also hoped that Vice President Mike Pence would simply do his thing. duty, read the vows and we would all move on.
Instead, I am writing to ask the United States Congress to challenge, condemn, and prosecute the president of the United States. The violence and chaos that engulfed the Capitol on Wednesday was a direct result of President Donald Trump’s seditious incitement and will have to be. he got rid of the workplace for violating his oath to the Constitution and endangering the security of the U. S. republic.
I’m not making this decision lightly. In my day-to-day paintings, I’m a federal employee. (I must remind you here that I do not constitute my employer or any branch of the US government. U. S. ) I took an oath to the Constitution and went to paint each and every day, passing portraits of six other presidents, adding President Trump . . . I didn’t vote for Trump and I in favor of Trump’s 2018 political trial.
At the same time, as a citizen of the United States, I also have the right to call my elected officials to the republic on the part of this rebellious president.
There are 3 reasons to accuse Trump right now: in fact, right now, or as soon as the House and Senate can meet and get there (the indictment doesn’t require a lengthy process. This is a camera vote like any other. another. )
First, Trump is an imminent risk to the country’s security. The Capitol invaded a crowd at his request. Late in the afternoon, Trump had asked protesters to return home, but told them they were right to say that the election had been stolen. , spilling more fuel into the flames even pretending to calm the waters. There’s no guilty argument to leave a guy like that in command of the military, to leave the security of the American country in his hands for another minute.
Second, even after the failure of this existing attempt to violently overthrow the political order, Trump will not stop. He created the stage at the Capitol and will gladly create some other distraction, perhaps with one last attempt to use the US military. The U. S. or as a component of a desperate attempt to confuse the United States into a foreign confrontation, if it believes that is the case, the only way out of the legal and monetary danger it will face on January 21, 2021.
Legal and ethical responsibility: Trump unleashed the crowds that attacked the U. S. Capitol. Get him out of today.
Finally, the political trial for multiple crimes that oppose the Constitution and other Americans is the only way left for lawmakers, especially Republicans in the president’s own party, who need to demonstrate their loyalty to the Constitution and protect the supremacy of the rule of law in the United States. States. États. La Constitution will have to make sense. If the president of the United States goes unpunished after unleashing a mob that opposes elected lawmakers just because he needs to invalidate an election, then it is a much bigger challenge than a day of protest that has been derailed.
We deserve never to have gotten to that point. Of course, now that everything is lost, reborn constitutionalists like Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who will soon be minority leader) have rediscovered the perception of duty and strict obedience to the Constitution. It’s to your disgrace that you haven’t acted before. Trump has made it clear for months, if not years, that he would never settle for defeat and that he would never leave office voluntarily. They knew the danger and chose to check their situation. lucky to hold power.
Similarly, pro-Trump commentators – and the much worse “anti-Trump,” the oily cowards who, from the outset, claimed they didn’t do it or opposed Trump – ridiculed those we had warned that Trump intended to incite violence. They turned their eyes blank to expressions such as ‘personality cult’ and now the Capitol has been literally overrun by a crowd of madmen who, for months, have been fed up with meaningless stories about Venezuelan voting machines and secret paedophile kabbales. It is up to the country to admit that they were wrong and to subscribe to the call to trial.
Trump deserves to have been arrested through the REPUBLICAN Party in the 2016 primaries. He deserves to have been arrested when he was first charged. He deserves to have been arrested in the 2020 crusade when he said he deserved to see how the vote was going before participating in a nonviolent power movement.
Immolate to the REPUBLICAN Party: Four years later in Georgia, Trump completes its destruction of the REPUBLICAN Party
Democrats, regardless of the limits of their own old disorganization, have been searching for four years to prevent Trump from altering our governance formula. Joe Biden carried out a crusade that took the big path and called national unity. They did their part. Now it’s time for Republicans to do their thing: they’ll have to sign up for Democrats, accuse the president, and meet in the Senate to gather the super-majority of votes demanded by the Constitution to accuse Trump, end this madness, and install Mike Pence as the 46th president.
If the United States is going to start from the point of January 6, 2021, there is only one course of action: now it accused and condemned Donald Trump.
Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at Naval War College, senior advisor to the Lincoln Project and a member of the USA TODAY Taxpayer Board, is the member of Our Own Worst Enemy, which will be published in August. are yours. Follow him on Twitter: @RadioFreeTom
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