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Impeachment: January 13, 2021
TrueNewsBlog- TNB
By: Nathaniel Ballantyne
(TrueNewsBlog)- A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to make Donald Trump the first U.S. president ever to be impeached twice, formally charging him with inciting an insurrection in a vote held a week after a violent mob of his supporters besieged the Capitol.
Numerous reports are indicating that House Republicans are terrified of crossing President Donald Trump and voting for his impeachment.
Wednesday morning on CNN, Jamie Gangel reported that members of the House GOP caucus are still operating under “tremendous pressure” from Trump and are still being “scared and intimidated” by the president. Gangel shared a conversation she had with an anonymous House conservative — who said that the GOP caucus currently feels grave threats to their safety.
“They fear for their lives, and for their family’s lives,” the unnamed Congressional Republican told Gangel.
Politico’s Tim Alberta reported that there are Republicans who would like to vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment, but are concerned that doing so will put them in harms way.
“Numerous House Representatives have received death threats in the past week, and I know for a fact several members *want* to impeach but fear casting that vote could get them or their families murdered,” Alberta tweeted Wednesday.
