As House Democrats swiftly move forward with a second round of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a number of Republican lawmakers have come out in support of the unprecedented move, including a member of House GOP leadership, Rep. Liz Cheney.
According to The Hill, Cheney is already receiving massive blowback by many of her Republican colleagues, with Rep. Jim Jordan leading the charge in calling for Cheney to be removed from her current leadership post in the House.
“We ought to have a second vote,” he told reporters, with regard to removing her from her position as Chair of the Republican Conference. “The conference ought to vote on that.”
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As reported by Fox News, Jordan’s comments came at the same time a number of other Republicans made similar statements, including Rep. Andy Biggs, who was especially concerned with Cheney’s anti-Trump language.
“I don’t think she should be the chair of the Republican conference anymore,” Biggs said on Fox News. “The reality is she’s not representing the conference; she’s not representing the Republican ideals.”
Republican Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale echoed the call for Cheney’s removal.
“When Representative Cheney came out for impeachment today, she failed to consult with the Conference, failed to abide by the spirit of the rules of the Republican Conference, and ignored the preferences of Republican voters,” Rosendale said. “She is weakening our conference at a key moment for personal political gain and is unfit to lead. She must step down as Conference Chair.”
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At the crux of the issue was Cheney’s announcement that she would support the second impeachment of Trump, joining Democrats and a majority of the mainstream media in blaming the president for allegedly “inciting” the rioters who would eventually lay siege to the U.S. Capitol, a tragic event that would end up costing five American lives and a trail of destruction.
“None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” Cheney said on Tuesday, which sparked a firestorm of media speculation and enormous blowback from Trump’s supporters on social media.
So far, at least five House Republicans have signaled that they support the impeachment of Trump, with a vote to formalize the matter coming at some point on Wednesday. It’s unclear, as of this writing, if any additional House Republicans are considering joining the cause.
Should the vote to formalize articles of impeachment against Trump succeed on Wednesday, it would be a history-making moment, as Trump would become the only president in U.S. history to be subject to two impeachments.
