UPDATE: On January 13th, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for the second time. Speaker Pelosi has named the Members of Congress who will serve as impeachment managers for the Senate trial. Notably, many of them were leaders in drafting articles of impeachment, including Reps. Raskin and Cicilline, and Rep. Lieu—who, along with Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, started drafting the articles of impeachment while sheltering in place during the Capitol attack incited by Trump.
The Senate Majority and Minority leaders must now use the emergency powers designated to them to immediately bring the Senate back in session, and begin impeachment proceedings in the Senate. Leader Schumer has already agreed to do this.
On January 12th, the New York Times reported that Mitch McConnell agreed that Trump committed impeachable offenses. We need to hold McConnell’s feet to the fire and call on him to join with Schumer to bring the Senate back for the trial now!
Call your Senators now and tell them to urge McConnell to use his emergency powers to immediately reconvene the Senate for Trump’s second impeachment trial, and that you expect your Senator to vote to convict and then disqualify Donald Trump from holding federal office in the future.
Donald Trump has spent the last four years doing everything in his power to destroy our democracy and its institutions. He has used the office of the presidency for his own personal gain and profit. He has not once, in his four years in office, shown an interest in running this country, except to the point that it might benefit himself, his businesses, or his own corrupt family.
When white supremacist forces supported Trump’s racist rhetoric and actions, he not only refused to condemn them, he called them “very fine people.” When he decisively lost his re-election bid in November 2020, he refused to concede. Instead, he called up state officials in Georgia to demand that they overturn Joe Biden’s legitimate victory in that state. His enablers in the Republican party allowed him to live in denial, all while whipping up their base to believe the fiction that the election was “rigged” and had been “stolen” from Trump. And on January 6, 2021, when the 117th Congress met to certify the election of Joe Biden to the presidency, the consequences of Donald Trump’s racism, corruption, and unhinged denial broke down the doors.
Thousands of Trump supporters, some of them apparently armed, overtook the Capitol and put the Vice President, U.S. Senators, and Representatives in the House in mortal danger. Trump stood by and said nothing for hours, before finally posting a video proclaiming to the insurrectionists who were occupying the Capitol that “I love you and you are all very special.”
This treasonous behavior cannot go unpunished. Donald Trump must be impeached, again. McConnell must use his existing emergency powers to bring the Senate back into session and the House of Representatives must draw up articles of impeachment immediately and move quickly to vote on them, and then the Senate must vote to convict Trump, remove him from office, and vote to ensure he is disqualified from ever holding federal office again.
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Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I am from [CITY/STATE]. I’m calling Senator [NAME] to urge them to call on Mitch McConnell to use his emergency powers to reconvene the Senate and to support the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump. If Trump is convicted, Senator [NAME] must also vote to permanently disqualify Trump from ever holding federal office again. Will [SENATOR NAME] return to Congress to support impeachment, removal, and disqualification? Our democracy depends on it.
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