GOP Rep. Liz Cheney will vote to impeach President Donald Trump

Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, said Tuesday she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump, as at least four GOP lawmakers will move to charge the president from their own party with high crimes and misdemeanors.

She is the highest-ranking Republican to call for the president’s impeachment in the wake of last Wednesday’s deadly Capitol Hill riot, which Trump helped incite with lies and incendiary rhetoric.

Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., earlier said he would support impeachment after the president stirred up a mob that attacked the Capitol while Congress counted President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential win. Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., later joined Cheney and Katko. The riot left five people, including a Capitol police officer, dead.

In a statement, Cheney said Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.”

“Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President,” the Republican conference chair said.

“The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”

Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday evening that he will not try to remove Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment.

“I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution,” Pence wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Pence did not specifically mention the impeachment push. However, he did urge Congress “to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment” as “we prepare to inaugurate President-elect Joe Biden as the next President of the United States.”

The House plans to vote Wednesday on whether to charge Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats have said they have enough votes to impeach the president for an unprecedented second time.

In a statement Tuesday evening, Pelosi named nine impeachment managers for the impending trial. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., will serve as the lead manager. He will be joined by Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., and Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa.

Once the House impeaches Trump, the Senate will decide whether to convict him. The chamber may not have time to vote to remove him from office before Biden takes office a week from Wednesday.

Even so, conviction in the Senate would prevent Trump from holding elective office in the future and he could lose perks given to former presidents.

The House Republicans revealed their stances as The New York Times reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has told associates he thinks Trump committed impeachable acts. The newspaper did not detail whether McConnell would vote to convict the president if the House sends articles of impeachment to the Senate or whether he would urge Republicans to vote the same way.

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[almamyers]

I wish they worked this hard to help the American people! They are showing their true colors in when they want to work on something and when they don’t

[cwhyharris]

She's just a rhino Trump's a human being he has no control over people in their emotion he did not incite anything these people are on the Chinese payroll or hope to be soon

[heatherelissa]

People are losing their integrity on a daily basis these days.

[itrthho]

Like the Cheney family doesn’t have blood on their hands

[travishall]

Yeah, and we will remember come next election in Wy.!!!

[adaonetube]

She has pretty much toasted herself. She will be primary out! This is no longer the George Bush GOP. This GOP has more of Trump's vision even if Trump isn't going to run in 2024. 75 million Trump voters want the RINOs out.

[cnnnpc]

all this disloyalty. after all that trump did for the republican party.

[willmiles]

Last thing America needs is another Cheney.

[valeriemcmickle]

I bet she changed her mind after the charges they brought against her today! Lol

[SuperRmalta]

The leader of a democracy isn't someone hungry for power, it's someone empowering the hungry.

[ArtIsMyNature]

Those Re-count-agains are something else! 🤣

[melvinpjotr]

no healing without accountability. This lays the foundations of a true healing, small as it is

[Zelp]

GOP cannabilizing itself is hilarious.

[finnskywalker]

Liz Cheney has been angling to be a leader in the Republican party for a while now - question is how many will follow her lead in charting a new chapter for the party of Lincoln?

[williamaperrow]

Rope, duct tape and car trunk or impeachment. The first 3 are so much quicker and the Potomac isn't far away at all. The only problem I foresee is mixing 5 trucks loads of concrete to weigh Trump down.

[yaakovhoresh]

i am in Israel but i am more afraid from Trump then Iranian at this moment of history in making

[cybrfriends]

Accountability and Justice brings the Country together.

[KidVolcano]

Never thought I'd be grateful to see *Liz Cheney* do the right and honorable thing, but that's where America is at right now

[jewelinvegas]

Now we know why the right has been so predisposed about having guns. They weren't afraid of being overthrown by Govt. They wanted to overthrow Govt.

[yellow]

Push that thumbs up like I’m voting one more time baby! 🤘🤟👍