{"id":129955,"date":"2021-02-14T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=129955"},"modified":"2021-02-14T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:59:02","slug":"7-republicans-who-found-trump-guilty-of-inciting-capitol-riot-explain-their-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-republicans-who-found-trump-guilty-of-inciting-capitol-riot-explain-their-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Republicans Who Found Trump \u2018Guilty\u2019 Of Inciting Capitol Riot Explain Their Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F7-republicans-who-found-trump-guilty-of-inciting-capitol-riot-explain-their-votes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=129955&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mitt-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the Senate\u2019s 57-43 vote on Saturday on former President Donald Trump\u2019s charge that he incited an insurrection that led to a riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, seven Republicans voted to convict.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the seven explained their votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitt Romney of Utah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romney, who has repeatedly clashed with Trump, was the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration of the respective counsels\u2019 arguments, I have concluded that President Trump is guilty of the charge made by the House of Representatives,\u201d Romney said in a statement. \u201cHe did this despite the obvious and well known threats of violence that day. President Trump also violated his oath of office by failing to protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and others in the Capitol. Each and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate also said Trump \u201cincited the insurrection against Congress by using the power of his office to summon his supporters to Washington on January 6th and urging them to march on the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction,\u201d Romney said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Collins of Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collins, a longtime moderate Republican, was been critical of Trump throughout his four years in office and declared him guilty after the Senate trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this situation, context was everything. Tossing a lit match into a pile of dry leaves is very different from tossing it in to a pool of water, and on January 6th the atmosphere among the crowd outside the White House was highly combustible,\u201d Collins said in a floor speech after her vote to convict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of preventing a dangerous situation, President Trump created one. And rather than defend the Constitutional transfer of power, he incited an insurrection with the purpose of preventing that transfer of power from occurring,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>And she said her vote against Trump \u201cstems from my own oath and duty to defend the Constitution of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Sasse of Nebraska<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sasse, another regular critic of the president, voted with Democrats to deem the trial constitutional on the first day of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement after the vote, Sasse ripped Democrats, but also criticized he former president and said he believed it was his duty to convict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promised Nebraskans I\u2019d always vote my conscience even if it was against the partisan stream. In my first speech here in the Senate in November 2015, I promised to speak out when a president \u2014 even of my own party \u2014 exceeds his or her powers. I cannot go back on my word, and Congress cannot lower our standards on such a grave matter, simply because it is politically convenient,\u201d he said. \u201cI must vote to convict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d always vote my conscience even if it was against the partisan stream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toomey is retiring from the Senate next year, and told reporters that the vote to convict was the \u201cright call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of President Trump\u2019s 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\u2019 greatest fears motivating the inclusion of the impeachment authorities in the U.S. Constitution,\u201d Toomey said in a statement, noting that he\u2019d voted for Trump\u2019s re-election. \u201cHis betrayal of the Constitution and his oath of office required conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class>Richard Burr of North Carolina<\/h4>\n<p class>Burr, like Toomey, is retiring next year, and while he voted to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional, he said he made his final decision to vote to convict based on the facts of the trial.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cAs I said on January 6th, the president bears responsibility for these tragic events. The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d Burr said in a statement. \u201cI do not make this decision lightly, but I believe it is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president bears responsibility for these tragic events,\u201d Burr said. \u201cThe evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a co-equal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of \u2018high crimes and misdemeanors.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Murkowski of Alaska<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Murkowski, like Collins, is a moderate Republican who has also been critical of Trump. She said she her vote to convict was a matter of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about me and my life, my job. This is really about what we stand for,\u201d Murkowski said. \u201cI\u2019m sure that there are many Alaskans that are very dissatisfied with my vote. And I\u2019m sure that there are many Alaskans that are proud of my vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence that has been presented thus far is pretty damning,\u201d she said this week.<\/p>\n<h4 class>Bill Cassidy of Louisiana<\/h4>\n<p class>Cassidy, who was re-elected last year, voted with most Republicans that the Senate does have the power to convict a former president. But he then voted to convict.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cOur Constitution and our country is more important than any one person,\u201d Cassidy said in a 10-second video posted on Twitter. \u201cI voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ute0xPc4BH\">pic.twitter.com\/ute0xPc4BH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBillCassidy\/status\/1360697544293183488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview on Sunday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d Cassidy laid out in depth the reason for his vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6594487098MsoNormal\">&nbsp;\u201cIf you describe \u2026 insurrection, as I did, it\u2019s an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, we can see the president for two months after the election promoting that the election was stolen, people still tell me they think Dominion rigged those machines, with Hugo Chavez from Venezuela, that is not true, and all the news organizations that promoted that have retracted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe then scheduled the rally for January 6th, just when the transfer of power was to take place. And he brought together a crowd, but a portion of that was transformed into a mob. And when they went into the Capitol, it was clear that he wished that lawmakers be intimidated. And even after he knew there was violence taking place, he continued to basically sanction the mob being there. And not until later did he actually ask them to leave,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of that points to a motive and a method and that is wrong, he should be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Senate\u2019s 57-43 vote on Saturday on former President Donald Trump\u2019s charge that he incited an insurrection that led to a riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893412,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4172,4331,5842,3756,3618,3634],"class_list":["post-129955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-capitol","tag-found","tag-inciting","tag-republicans","tag-riot","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}