First Republican lawmaker announces he will vote for impeachment of Trump
From CNN's Kristin Wilson
Rep. John Katko om Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Republican Rep. John Katko announced today that he will vote to impeach President Trump.
Katko is the first Republican to sign on to the Democrats' effort to impeach Trump for his role in spurring on his supporters in last week's storming of the US Capitol.
"It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection – both on social media ahead of January 6th, and in his speech that day. By deliberately promoting baseless theories suggesting the election was somehow stolen, the president created a combustible environment of misinformation, disenfranchisement, and division," he said.