It's very simple & short as it's a little over 3 pages. Article 1 is entitled, "Incitement of Insurrection". It focuses on the Trump rally in front of the WH during the deliberations on the electoral vote count in Congress in which he made false claims about the election.
The resolution next states that Trump "willfully made statements that encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—imminent lawless action at the Capitol." He incited a riot which resulted in a mob attacking the Capitol and interfering in the process to certify the results.
The resolution brings up the phone call w/Raffensperger to 'find votes' to overturn the GA result to establish a long pattern & practice of Trump attempting to subvert election results. His activities threatened national security & interfered with a peaceful transition of power.
Because Trump represents an enduring threat to national security, the resolution calls for impeachment, trial, removal
from office, and "disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States." That's it.
The primary purpose of impeachment imho is not removal from office. If that were the case, it wouldn't require 67 votes to remove. The threshold would be lower.
The purpose is to impose maximum political pressure on a corrupt POTUS and allies to deter them from further injurious conduct to the nation, while enabling Congress to investigate the matter, inform the people and refer matters for prosecution.
@SpeakerPelosi is using impeachment in the proper context to protect the nation. The main objective isn't to get his removal from office. It's to put pressure on Trump and deter him from undertaking more seditious or dangerous acts in his remaining days in the office.
If the pressure of impeachment forces his resignation or a 25A suspension, impeachment will have worked. If it freezes Trump's minions in place so they don't undertake criminal acts on his behalf b/c of the glare of impeachment, it will have worked.
If the pressure of impeachment results in a successful vote in the House (indictment) and a trial which doesn't begin until after he leaves office, but no other harm comes to the nation, and the inauguration of Biden goes smoothly, impeachment will have worked.
If impeachment raises the profile of the crime that was committed in such a manner as to compel the @FBI and DOJ to actually investigate what happened on 1/6 as a high crime & not as a localized rally that 'got a little out of hand' like a bar fight, impeachment will have worked.
I do know one thing: leaving Trump alone for his final days in office is the worst thing we can do. His propaganda army will sanitize and erase what happened on 1/6. He will seek vengeance and use all of his remaining power against the US. We must deter him w/the tools we have.
Bravo to the @HouseDemocrats and @SenateDems for aggressively responding to this unprecedented act of sedition against the US Congress. Let's see how things play out and let's be vigilant against potential threats to public officials and the Biden inauguration.

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To those who want to actually help Claudia Conway after her mom (Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former aide) posted her underage daughter’s nudes to Fleets, fill out a report on the NCMEC CyberTipline.
CPS refused to help her.
#HelpClaudia


Kellyanne Conway has a well-documented history of verbally abusing, gaslighting, and threatening her daughter. It gets worse when highly public things go viral (such as exposing the truth about Trump and Conway catching COVID-19 last October). Kellyanne coerces false statements.

Insider did a thorough chronological background of the history of exposing her parents abuse and control of her here:
https://t.co/ncjaEyLOSC

We all know that “statement” last year was coerced. She talks constantly about being abused by them.


Personally? I suspect Kellyanne is a narcissist. From my own experience being sexually and emotionally abused by a narcissist, they are obsessed with controlling the narrative (coerced typed statement), discrediting their victim (posting her nudes) & gaslighting

If you haven’t experienced gaslighting or aren’t familiar with it, it’s when someone causing you harm (physical, emotional, sexual, financial, etc) twists the facts and asserts that reality is just you being delusional and you don’t actually understand what happened.
1. Yes, Trump will claim to intend to target GOP senators up for reelection in '22 (like he did to Thune with Kristi Noem) if they don't join in @HawleyMO's sedition on Jan. 6, but the fact is, it's not clear whether Trump will be successful in ANY of those efforts & voting yes


2. to hedge off these threats will also create fissures & fractures for these incumbents among other elements of their party that could complicate their renominations. Indeed, what worries me the most about the potential for the country to slip into @anneapplebaum territory is

3. that what should be robust and intense push back from the party establishment against actually ending democracy- bc that's what Trump's request would do, if it was granted, is fairly muted. What we SHOULD be seeing from the mainstream of the party is threats to strip committee

4. assignments, chairs, privileges, even reelection funds, if anyone gets involved in this bullshit- in the House & the Senate, and the fact that you don't see it is more than a story of McConnell & McCarthy being afraid of Trump & his base. Its a story of receptivity, of the

5. level of receptivity the congressional and party leadership is dealing with both within the rank and file membership of the party and within its donor class, and THAT, my friends, is why you find me so concerned. That, and my decision to finally pull @anneapplebaum's book

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