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Blunt added in a separate interview with KSHB, another Missouri TV station, that impeaching Trump was not going to happen.
Though the House would need to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate would hold the trial and ultimately vote on whether to convict Trump and remove him from office.
Blunt is the highest-ranking Senate Republican to weigh in on calls from a growing number of Democrats for Trump to be impeached after a mob came to the Capitol as lawmakers were counting the Electoral College vote.
Trump has claimed for weeks that the election was rigged, even as his legal team lost dozens of court challenges and election experts dismissed allegations of widespread voter fraud.
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The group, many of whom were filming the incident, appeared to be Trump supporters who believe conspiracy theories about the election. Trump has claimed for weeks that the election was rigged, despite losing dozens of legal challenges and election experts dismissing claims of fraud.
At one point members of the group yell audit the vote and you know it was rigged, in reference to the presidential election, and call him a piece of shit.
Lindsey Graham just made the mistake walking by me and a mass of angry patriots at the airport in DC.
All America wants is for you to AUDIT OUR VOTE and purge this election of this massive corruption.and you won’t do it. We’re not letting this “slide” so expect more of this. pic.twitter.com/pbemr2Gcr9 Mindy Robinson (@iheartmindy) January 8, 2021
“Moving on” requires accountability.
Attacking our nation without recourse or responsibility isn’t “moving on.” A Capitol Police officer just died. Why are you defending this? https://t.co/yTjh6ikNJs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 8, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Graham s tweets by calling him out for defending the president, whom many Democrats and some Republicans have condemned as responsible for inciting Wednesday s riots.
ADVERTISEMENT Move on? Moving on does not mean forget about it, @LindseyGrahamSC, she wrote. “ Moving on requires accountability. Attacking our nation without recourse or responsibility isn t moving on. A Capitol Police officer just died. Why are you defending this?