https://www.c-span.org/video/?507879-101/house-impeaches-president-trump-time-232-197
Jim McGovern
MR. SPEAKER, SOME OF US OBJECTED FOUR YEARS AGO AS A PROTEST VOTE TO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT ALL OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HAD STATED CLEARLY -- THAT RUSSIA INTERFERED IN OUR ELECTION. BUT WHAT THE GENTLEMAN FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IS THAT WE ALL ACKNOWLEDGED THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS THE PRESIDENT THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION. HILLARY CLINTON CONCEDED THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION. AND NONE OF US PUSHED CONSPIRACY THEORIES, LIKE SOME OF MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE HAVE BEEN DOING AND THIS PRESIDENT THAT SOMEHOW THAT IF THE PRESIDENT WON IN A LANDSLIDE. GIVE ME A BREAK. YESTERDAY IN THE RULES COMMITTEE I ASKED THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IF HE WOULD JUST SAY FIVE SIMPLE WORDS. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HEALING. FIVE SIMPLE WORDS THAT YOU CAN SAY THAT WILL HELP HEAL THIS NATION, THAT THE ELECTION WAS NOT STOLEN. THAT'S IT. FIVE SIMPLE WORDS. HE REFUSED. HE SAID HE NEVER SAID THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN. WELL, THE EVIDENCE SHOWS OTHERWISE. LET ME QUOTE FROM THIS DANA MILLBANK PIECE SAYING, FIVE PESKY LITTLE WORDS KEEP STUMPING JIM JORDAN. AND MR. SPEAKER, THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS -- WE -- THIS CAPITOL WAS STORMED. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE BIG LIES THAT WERE BEING TOLD BY THIS PRESIDENT AND BY TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. ENOUGH. PEOPLE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AS TO WHAT HAPPENED. IT WAS UNFORGIVEABLE, UNCONSCIONABLE, AND COMING UP ON THIS FLOOR AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT ABOUTISM AND TRYING TO MAKE THESE FALSE EQUIVALENCIES, GIVE ME A BREAK. THE PRESIDENT INSTIGATED, INSTIGATED AN ATTEMPTED COUP IN THIS COUNTRY. PEOPLE DIED. YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED, WHETHER YOU'RE DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IF THIS IS NOT AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS. THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT FIT TO REMAIN IN OFFICE. WITH THAT, I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM OREGON, MR. DEFAZIO.
McGovern was referencing this regarding Gymsuit's refusal to say "five simple words" -
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Dana Milbank
@Milbank
Impeaching Trump for inciting a violent attack on Congress is necessary but insufficient. His co-conspirators must be held to account, too.
Opinion | As more MAGA violence looms, impeaching Trump is insufficient
Even if Trump were removed in his final week, the punishment would be inadequate, because it lets his co-conspirators off the hook.
washingtonpost.com
8:10 PM · Jan 12, 2021
As more MAGA violence looms, impeaching Trump is insufficient
Opinion by Dana Milbank
Columnist
Jan. 12, 2021 at 8:02 p.m. EST
As lawmakers took up a resolution Tuesday to urge President Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), a captain of the Republican attempt to overturn the election, defended the months-long effort, which culminated in last week’s deadly riot at the Capitol. House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) pleaded with his colleague to cut it out. “There are still serious concerns about another attack here in Washington, D.C., and in every corner of this country because of the lies that the election was stolen,” McGovern cautioned, noting FBI warnings about armed protests planned for Sunday at all 50 state capitols.
“For the sake of the country, it would be helpful if you would simply state for the record that this election was not stolen," he urged Jordan. “Those five words, I think, will go a long way to dissuading some of these people.” Those five words were too much for Jordan. “Now, you have to say exactly what the left wants,” he complained. As for the election, Jordan added, “I never once said it was stolen.”
No? Right after the election, Jordan stood on the steps of the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., at a “Stop the Steal” rally, surrounded by “Stop the Steal” signs and greeted by chants of “Stop the Steal.” He shouted into a bullhorn that “our elections should have integrity.” Later, he alleged, “President Trump got 11 million more votes than he did in 2016 … but somehow the guy who never left his house wins the election?” He added that “60 million Americans think it was stolen.”
Two days before the riot, he was on Newsmax complaining about “the fraud” and “the unconstitutional fashion in which these elections were held.” Jordan said, “It’s time for us to fight.” On the day of the insurrection, he claimed Democrats “did an end-run around the Constitution.” In Trump’s infamous speech last week, the president thanked Jordan by name for “fighting the House.” On Monday, he repaid Jordan by giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Yet now, after a MAGA mob sacked the Capitol, leaving five dead, Jordan claims he said nothing about the election being stolen? People like Jordan are why the effort to impeach Trump, which the House takes up Wednesday, is both imperative and insufficient.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/12/more-maga-violence-looms-impeaching-trump-is-insufficient/
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