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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senator says former President Donald Trump ‘betrayed’ the Constitution. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) was one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict former President Donald Trump of the single Article of Impeachment related to the January 6 rioting at the US Capitol.
In a statement, Senator Toomey, who voted for Trump in November, says the former president’s behavior after the election ‘betrayed the confidence millions of us placed in him.” However, Toomey says Trump’s defense team made several accurate observations, including how Democrats wanted to impeach Trump from the very beginning and the mainstream media was ‘hostile’ to the president. But Toomey says those facts do not make President Trump’s conduct in response to losing the 2020 election acceptable.
Read his full statement below:
He began with dishonest, systematic attempts to convince supporters that he had won. His lawful, but unsuccessful, legal challenges failed due to lack of evidence. Then, he applied intense pressure on state and local officials to reverse the election outcomes in their states. When these efforts failed, President Trump summoned thousands to Washington, D.C. and inflamed their passions by repeating disproven allegations about widespread fraud. He urged the mob to march on the Capitol for the explicit purpose of preventing Congress and the Vice President from formally certifying the results of the presidential election. All of this to hold on to power despite having legitimately lost.
As a result of President Trump’s actions, for the first time in American history, the transfer of presidential power was not peaceful.A lawless attempt to retain power by a president was one of the founders’ greatest fears motivating the inclusion of the impeachment authorities in the U.S. Constitution. I was one of the 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump, in part because of the many accomplishments of his administration. Unfortunately, his behavior after the election betrayed the confidence millions of us placed in him. His betrayal of the Constitution and his oath of office required conviction.”
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