@RepJayapal I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you and @AOC and all the other women in Congress of like mind for standing up for women/me. I appreciate you and I know it must be a constant uphill battle that's exhausting.
Let me be very clear: if all we do is accept the certified Electoral College results and go home, we would have failed our country. We must impeach Trump, or have the 25th Amendment execute, or have @realDonaldTrump resign. Congress cannot just go home like nothing happened.
When the Capitol is cleared and secured, and the joint session of Congress and the electoral vote count is completed, the House and the Senate should proceed immediately to the impeachment and removal of @realDonaldTrump.
The fact that President Trump and his followers didn't succeed today doesn't change the facts: Members of Congress who wanted to set aside the Electoral College slate, and agitators who stormed the Capitol, were involved in a failed coup attempt.
In 1968, the police swarmed peaceful protestors with clubs and teargas. They used teargas and clubs at St. John's church so Trump could hold up a Bible. With this mob, they're playing nice.
Incited by Trump, these domestic terrorists not only launched a violent assault on our Capitol but on our democracy too.
They attacked America—all of us—and they must be held fully accountable.
Prosecute them. All of them.
The fact that a white nationalist mob was able to invade the Capitol with such little police response is unsurprising. This is a scene that's been repeated across the country. Armed white insurrectionists are given relative free rein while Black & POC protestors are brutalized.