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Hundreds of Congressional staff members sign open
letter urging Senators to convict Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/feb/03/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-covid-coronavirus-republicans-marjorie-taylor-greene-live-updates
Hundreds of
staff who work in Congress have written an open letter to Senators urging them
to convict former president Trump and prevent him from running for office
again. The letter, posted to website Medium, is signed by 370 staff members. It
reads in part:
We are
staff who work for members of the US Senate and the US House of
Representatives, where it is our honor and privilege to serve our country and
our fellow Americans. We write this letter to share our own views and
experiences, not the views of our employers. But on 6 January, 2021, our
workplace was attacked by a violent mob trying to stop the electoral college
vote count. That mob was incited by former president Donald J. Trump and his
political allies, some of whom we pass every day in the hallways at work.
On 6
January, the former President broke America’s 230-year legacy of the peaceful
transition of power when he incited a mob to disrupt the counting of electoral
college votes. Six people died. A Capitol Police officer—one of our co-workers
who guards and greets us every day—was beaten to death. The attack on our
workplace was inspired by lies told by the former president and others about
the results of the election in a baseless, months-long effort to reject votes
lawfully cast by the American people.
As
Congressional employees, we don’t have a vote on whether to convict Donald J.
Trump for his role in inciting the violent attack at the Capitol, but our
Senators do. And for our sake, and the sake of the country, we ask that they
vote to convict the former president and bar him from ever holding office
again.
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