WASHINGTON, D.C. (KRON/AP) – Ten Republican House members voted to impeach President Donald Trump over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. The GOP votes were in sharp contrast to the unanimous support for Trump among House Republicans when he was first impeached by Democrats in 2019.
Republican members of Congress are voicing concerns and announcing that they will vote in favor of impeachment.
Here are the ten Republican members who have announced that they will sign for impeachment:
Rep. David Valadao
Representative David Valadao of California has also voted to impeach.
Rep. Tom Rice
Republican Tom Rice of South Carolina has also voted supported impeachment.
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez
U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio has voted to impeach President Donald Trump over his involvement in the January 6 riots at The Capitol.
Gonzalez released the following statement.
Rep. Peter Meijer
Newly elected Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer says that “with a heavy heart” he will join some other Republicans in supporting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Meijer announced he would vote to impeach Trump in a statement released Wednesday as the House was debating the proceedings. He said the vote “isn’t a victory for my party, and isn’t the victory Democrats might think it is.”
But after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week in an effort to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win, Meijer says it’s a step “for us to reflect on these events and seek ways to correct them.”
Meijer said impeaching Trump will likely exacerbate division and set precedent. But he ultimately concluded it is a “meaningful” way to hold Trump accountable for the “seriousness” of his actions.
Rep. Dan Newhouse
Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse said he will vote to impeach Trump while the debate ensued on the House floor on Wednesday.
He said he will not turn “a blind eye to this brutal assault on our Republic,” in a statement posted to Twitter.
He blamed the insurrection directly on Trump’s language and misinformation.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler
Another Washington representative, Jaime Herrera Beutler, said she was voting to impeach Trump on Tuesday.
Beutler plainly stated that Trump incited a riot as his supporters disrupted the House session to certify the Electoral College vote last week.
She mentioned the five people who died due to the insurrection in her statement, and added that Trump released a “pathetic denouncement” of the violence which was also a “wink and a nod” to the people who stormed the Capitol.
Rep. Fred Upton
Michigan Rep. Fred Upton said on Tuesday that Congress must hold the president accountable.
He said Trump’s avoidance to claim responsibility for his role in the insurrection sends the wrong signal.
“Today the President characterized his inflammatory rhetoric at last Wednesday’s rally as “totally appropriate,” and he expressed no regrets for last week’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. This sends exactly the wrong signal to those of us who support the very core of our democratic principles and took a solemn oath to the Constitution. I would have preferred a bipartisan, formal censure rather than a drawn-out impeachment process. I fear this will now interfere with important legislative business and a new Biden Administration. But it is time to say: Enough is enough.
The Congress must hold President Trump to account and send a clear message that our country cannot and will not tolerate any effort by any President to impede the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next. Thus, I will vote to impeach.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger has become the third Republican member of Congress to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Kinzinger said in a statement Tuesday that Trump is responsible for whipping up “an angry mob” that stormed the Capitol last week, leaving five dead. He says “there is no doubt in my mind” that Trump “broke his oath of office and incited this insurrection.”
The House is set to start impeachment proceedings against Trump on Wednesday.
The president faces a single impeachment charge, incitement to insurrection, for his actions surrounding the mob attack on the Capitol, the worst domestic assault on the building in the nation’s history.
See his full statement here:
Rep. Liz Cheney
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney says she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
The Wyoming congresswoman, the No. 3 Republican in the House, said in a statement Tuesday that Trump “summoned” the mob that attacked the Capitol last week, “assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” She says, “Everything that followed was his doing.”
She also notes that Trump could have immediately intervened to stop his supporters, but he did not.
Cheney says, “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Cheney is a daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Trump himself has taken no responsibility for his role in inciting the attackers.
Rep. John Katko
Rep. John Katko is the first Republican to say he’ll vote to impeach President Donald Trump following the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
The New York congressman said in a statement posted to Twitter late Tuesday: “I will vote to impeach this president.”
Katko, a former federal prosecutor, said he did not make the decision lightly.
He said, “To allow the president of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of our democracy.” He says, “I cannot sit by without taking action.”
The House is set to start impeachment proceedings against Trump on Wednesday.
The president faces a single impeachment charge, “incitement to insurrection,” for his actions ahead of the mob attack on the Capitol, the worst domestic assault on the building in the nation’s history.
Check back for more information as this story will be updated.
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