US Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, has received multiple death threats for being the lead sponsor of the House resolution to impeach President Trump for inciting last week’s violence at the Capitol.
“President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,” states the resolution.
Reports LGBTQ Nation:
Now he’s getting threatening messages.
“You poked the fucking bear this time, you little bitch,” said one of the messages played on CNN. “You poked the bear. You understand what I’m saying?”
“You’ve got 80 fucking million people coming after you, you commie little fucks.”
“If you impeach him, civil war is on, buddy,” said another one.
“They came here to lynch the vice president,” Cicilline said on CNN this morning. “To hang him. To assassinate the speaker of the House. To hunt members of Congress. Five people died. Lots of damage was done. Dozens of law enforcement officers were injured. This was a brutal and violent attack on our democracy and Donald Trump incited this by promoting the big lie that he in fact won the election by millions of votes but it was stolen from him.”
In a “New York Times” op-ed, Cicilline said that he’s sticking to the resolution because “failing to act would set an irresponsibly dangerous precedent for future presidents who are about to leave office.”
“There can be no healing of the divisions in our country without justice for the man most responsible for this horrific insurrection,” he wrote. “The president must be held accountable. That can happen only by impeaching him for a second time and convicting him in the Senate. A conviction that would allow Congress to prohibit him from ever serving in federal office again.”
“Trump becomes more of a threat to public safety by the moment.”
Cicilline says that Democrats have the votes needed for impeachment in the House.
Congress is scheduled to vote to impeach Trump today.
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