The Lincoln Project joined the calls for President Trump’s impeachment on Wednesday as pro-Trump rioters overtook the Capitol building.
The anti-Trump GOP group labeled the violence at the Capitol as “the direct responsibility of Donald Trump.”
“The House should immediately impeach Donald Trump for directing and provoking this attack,” The Lincoln Project said in a statement, calling on the Senate to “immediately vote to convict and remove him from office.”
The group said all congressional lawmakers who decline to vote to remove Trump from office “should be considered a co-conspirator.”
“While our democracy has been under attack since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, today’s domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol highlights just how much Trump and his enablers have entirely abandoned the principles of the Constitution and the Republic,” The Lincoln Project said in a statement.
“This is no longer simply about Donald Trump’s charade,” the statement continued. “It is an armed, violent, and planned insurrection against the United States of America. It is a moment where the tenets of Trumpism replaced the tenets of American democracy with the inevitable, violent results.”
The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson released a statement calling the violence “sedition and insurrection.”
“People have long asked why the Lincoln Project has targeted Trump’s Republican allies, and today they have their answer,” Wilson said. “Those Republicans who have endorsed and encouraged Trump’s lawless coup attempt in the House and Senate deserve to be prosecuted, not seated in the halls of government.”
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Lincoln Project joins calls for Trump’s impeachment as rioters swarm the Capitol https://t.co/2WuAQ7ONJt pic.twitter.com/judz0gnyhz
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2021
The Lincoln Project released the following statement about today's sedition and insurrection: pic.twitter.com/fJd8MJHWd6
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 6, 2021
Meanwhile, @maggieNYT just reported that the president's inner circle believe that he in fact wanted this https://t.co/eam8bhvPCe
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) January 6, 2021
This is not a surprise.
He telegraphed this moment on December 19th.
Don't believe for a second that the #SeditionCaucus led by @tedcruz and @HawleyMO didn't know what was going to happen today. pic.twitter.com/aQQPon5wQ2
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 6, 2021
“Schedule an impeachment vote for this very night. Stay ’til dawn. Do whatever is necessary…. Remove this treasonous president.” —@davidfrum https://t.co/96yWl68whv
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) January 6, 2021
Trump is a danger to his own country. He shouldn't be president for one more minute. #ImpeachAgain – Now. https://t.co/qUurJ4NEFi via @usatoday
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2021
Trump gave the order.#NeverForget pic.twitter.com/atDsjGH9WX
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 7, 2021
Wow. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (A popular Republican, although not a Trump fan): “President Trump should resign or be removed from office by his Cabinet, or by the Congress.” pic.twitter.com/x8oPX1wjQm
— Daniel Strauss (@DanielStrauss4) January 6, 2021
Disgrace upon disgrace upon disgrace.
Impeach and remove. Now. https://t.co/DBBhAmouYg
— David French (@DavidAFrench) January 6, 2021
I understand this fear, but this is not the time to go wobbly. Remove him. Either the Constitution wins or the mob wins. No compromises. https://t.co/OdWp6c0v4i
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2021
I think the one thing that could bring us all together as a nation tonight is to agree that the Capitol mob is a disgrace and that Trump must be removed from office. https://t.co/qUurJ4NEFi
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2021
Proud to be one of the signatories with so many of my colleagues. https://t.co/MssWrd0SCk
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 7, 2021
The H with impeachment! Drag his sorry self out of the WH tonight, charge him with sedition and jail him.
There is a deep sickness in the United States of America. Trump is not its sole cause, but he and his allies are make it much worse. There is a long road to a cure, but it can begin now, by purging a seditious president from the Oval Office: https://t.co/GcLr7rcThy
— David French (@DavidAFrench) January 6, 2021
Quite a statement from the National Association of Manufacturers: “The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution ..”
(via @ShopFloorNAM) pic.twitter.com/MlbJgOyz4H
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 6, 2021
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, demanded that Donald Trump resign after the president called on his supporters to challenge the 2020 election results and pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol todayhttps://t.co/xK9C59vDh0
— POLITICO (@politico) January 7, 2021
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