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ADVERTISEMENT They built a gallows outside of the Capitol of the United States, Raskin said. This was an attack on our country.
Raskin went on to add that Republicans needed to show that there would be consequences for the rioters who were looking to commit violence against members of Congress, telling Tapper that the response to the attack cannot be at the level of normal partisan push and pull.
Trump, Raskin added, was holding an insurrection tailgate party at the White House for hours while lawmakers hid in secure areas during the attack.
The House last week voted to impeach Trump, making him the first president to ever be impeached twice. He now awaits a second Senate trial even as he prepares to leave office Wednesday morning.
“I think it’s all going to boil down to what the president’s defense is,” Rove said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding “Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course in the morning papers.”
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump last week, acknowledged that he “very may well have” ended his own political career with the decision.
“But I think it s also important that we have elected leaders who are not thinking solely about what s in their individual self-interest, not what is going to be politically expedient, but what we actually need for the country,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”